Gismo Queen and her King

What with the roadworks 150m from our motel room, and early starters in the neighbouring rooms, we didn't sleep well. Given we had to get up early for our big day, it wasn't the worst thing to be up and about before 6:30am. Our first trip of the day was to the Caravanning Queensland Caravanning and Camping Supershow - we had seen a video of the new release caravan from the manufacturers of our caravan and thought we could see it in person while we were here. It was being held at the Brisbane Showgrounds so pretty much in the middle of town - hence we decided to travel in by train. The receptionist at the model gave me instructions to the best train station, so we headed off at 7:45am but didn't realise how difficult it would be to get a park! Once we finally found one, we missed a train by 1 minute! Eventually we got there, and then there was a shuttle bus at the other end as the Showgrounds Station is having some significant works. By this stage, I was pretty desperate for a coffee (no kitchen in a motel room, so no way to make my own fancy coffee) so we stopped for that and a snack. So many caravans to see!

We made our way to our favourite manufacturer  Sunland and spent about two hours there! The new van is awesome, and has everything we are missing on our current caravan. Could even have almost sold our current van while we were there! Anyway, need to think about that a bit more and have a chat to the financial planner.

Knowing we needed to get moving if we were going to get to the camel farm today before 3pm, we reversed our morning journey and was going to have lunch at the station but saw that a train on our line was due in 10 minutes so we knew we needed to get that. It turns out trains are pretty much the same the world over - quite boring when you are actually on them but they do get you from A to B quite efficiently.

Jumping off quickly at the other end, we headed straight to the camel farm, a further half hour drive. It was actually pretty awesome. Summerland Camels mostly milks their camels for its health properties so there are hundreds of camels milling around in the paddocks near the cafe and shop, which is also not far from the barn style milking shed. They had just been fed so were pretty happy for us to stand very close and talk to us in between mouthfuls of their pellets.

Knowing how tired we were, the mission was to find accommodation within a reasonable distance, We were just over an hour from Warwick so that seemed like a logical choice but there's obviously something on as there was no availability. However, this cottage was available only 15 minutes out of Warwick and on the banks of this great lake. I was very happy to see pelicans at the shore and raced down to get a photo at sunset.

It's kookily decorated - although the timber four post bed in our room is beautiful! - but will do us well. It's quiet, warm and let's just hope that bed is as comfy as it looks beautiful.