Part 5 and last one for this time.

Leaving at the early hour of 10 we made it to St George by lunchtime. Finding a park in the middle to enjoy our lettuce and tuna lunch at we looked at the real estate for sale over the road – a 4 bed brick veneer could be yours for $285k, while in the street a weatherboard 5 bed 2 bath was going for $259k – currently rented at $350 a week.

From the lunch spot it wasn’t long and we were at the Nindigully pub and its camping area and the nomads were in (if any actually left!). Like flies to a toilet block on a hot day, the nomads surrounded the public toilets and spread themselves far and wide (and close together) with some opting to be out the front of the pub camping the night.

Jo and I found a “quiet” spot at the end of the lagoon, we did luck it in with a waterfront view and a spot for the fire for the night. After setting up (read that as parking in our spot) we strolled up to the pub – at a rough guess there was 60 plus vans in there by mid afternoon. The pub gets a good wrap for food so we thought we would book in to get a table for dinner – but no the restaurant is closed while its busy but you can order takeaway, however you can’t order until 5.30 – and the advice is to start in the queue just after 5….we headed back to the van and organised the fire and our dinner. The Matilda’s were playing England that night – we didn’t need to be there to understand how the game was going!

After breezing through Thallon with its big wombat and painted silos, the next stop was Mungindi on the border, where we had spent a few days last year as well. We pulled into the caravan park with the view to having a dip in the artesian pool again – and we intended to book for 2 nights but stayed for 3 as there was a country and western singer booked in. Before the Saturday night music show we walked to the pool and town a few times – always good to chat with the locals and find the stories that are around there. 

We heard that the pub, the Jolly (for Jolly Swagman) was back in action this year and looking good. Also good for food was the “2 Mile” pub which is….2 miles north of town on the Queensland side. We found out that both have courtesy cars, but the 2 Mile will pick you up in a limo….Dinner and the company out there was great but the pub was having a quiet Thursday night and the Limo was replaced with a Prado.

The caravan park is very social and does things to bring in the town folk – and Saturday night was no exception. The Country and Western guy was Lance Birrell. he performed for about 3 hours for donations only and the park put on a BBQ for a token fee. There would have been around 60 people there for the most part, and Lance’s history is pretty broad. He played with Slim Dusty and Keith Urban (early on) and has been with a few of the other big names. The music he played was some of his own hits, plus Slim Dusty, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, Keith Urban, Lee Kernaghan and Troy Cassar-Daly. Both he and Troy used to busk together at Tamworth. A great night and if you want to see some snippets from my phone go here —> https://bit.ly/3sjb56e ( you may need to copy and paste)

Sadly it all comes to an end, this is the last post for a while and we will be home again in a day or 2 – only for a week or so before we take some of the grandkids for a tour!

Thanks for reading, hope you have enjoyed them – stay safe and always have fun!