Gismo Queen and her King

Maryborough to Blackbutt

Today was a trip down memory lane for Greg. Places and people with whom he spent so much time when he lived up this way.


We set off from Maryborugh on a brilliant sunny morning (the shorts were back on) after the caravan park pack up. As we drove through Maryborough I commented on the excessive amount of traffic going the other way. After all, it is a country town. Turning the UHF on revealed the cause - an accident on the Bruce Highway had northbound traffic closed so they were all coming through town. Glad we were heading south.


Given Greg knows this countryside so well, I didn't have to describe much to him (he did more to me, especially navigating). But for those playing along at home, sugar cane fields gave way to bush which became more hilly the further we travelled. It is obviously all still very dry but still quite pretty.


Coming into Kilkivan, a truckie had some less than complimentary things to say about my driving (which I was annoyed at, because I wasn't doing anything wrong, and was doing the speed limit) but he did point out something we didn't know - that one of our indicators on the van wasn't working. A few attempts at fixing it ourselves didn't work until I spied the Kilkivan Auto Centre just up the road so I went to chat to the mechanic who happily fixed our little issue and we were back on the road. The lost time did require a morning tea stop then which we did at a local cafe.


Heading on through the hills, we pulled into Blackbutt at about 2pm. Got the van set up at the local showgrounds before we headed out to the farm where Greg spent so much of his time. Reunions were had, tours were undertaken, drinks were shared and much reminiscing took place. We shared a delicious meal with Andy and Mayo cooked on the fire and got a little surprised at how cold it got out there. This has definitely been our coolest night for quite some time. We said our goodbyes and headed back to town to turn on the heater and kettle in our van to help warm us up. Think we might need the diesel heater in the morning!!

posted by Tracey @ 7:27 am