Gismo Queen and her King

Day 19 - Diddlibah to Burpengary East (again x 2) - Friday 17 May 2024

 For a caravan park, this is pretty civilised and not too noisy. We slept well, and woke on time for departure preparations ahead of the 10am designated time.

In planning the surprise, Julie had suggested they had a day or two spare and they could spend some more time with us. She suggested we all have another night at Diddlibah but not being caravan park people - and knowing how much Garry liked sitting around a campfire - we suggested the bush camp we had come from - Wescloud Lodge at Burpengary East. It is quite special that you can park in the bush, have campfires and certainly feel like you are away from it all, but be within 40km of Brisbane! So we traipsed back down the motorway and were back on site within the hour.

 Finding a suitable bush site away from everyone else and that could fit our three rather large vans was slightly trickier but we are all pretty good at manoeuvring into place so we were all sitting under our awning having our elevenses half an hour after arrival. There was the odd sprinkle of rain but the sun came out in between and we lit the fire. There was more chatting, lunch, another tour of the brand new caravan and then Neill, Jude and I went grocery shopping. We timed it pretty badly as return time turned out to be in peak hour traffic so it took us a lot longer to return than it did to get there.  But we weren’t too worried; the fire was lit, Julie was preparing dinner so we didn’t have too much to do.

Such a pleasant evening around the fire, with music blaring from our external caravan speakers. I had also hooked up the TV to the outside brackets as the mighty Blues were playing Neill’s Swans. We kept the volume off but the TV is so large we could see it from the fire - fair to say I stopped watching after awhile....

A lovely way to end our shared time with Garry and Julie - and that was a delicious prawn risotto dinner they made - followed by chocolate self saucing pudding no less!

posted by Tracey @ 6:20 pm