COOYAR - POPULATION: 289

MONDAY 3 – TUESDAY 4.10.2011: Set sail on the next leg of the rally first stop - Murgon to do the fortnight’s washing we had planned to do at the caravan park!  Saw beautiful countryside and small towns that made for an enjoyable drive. Had to stop at ‘Jo’s Country’ – Kingaroy and purchase all the peanut varieties! Morning tea was at the Nanango Art & Craft Shop – 3 paintings constituted the art, with a few souvenirs the craft. Devonshire Tea was beautiful! Swinging Bridge Park, a rest area behind the pub at Cooyar was the final stop for the day. Huge, well maintained area that stretched along the local river – stunning. Sun was shining, birds were singing – we erected the clothes line, hung the washing out, pulled up our chairs, poured a drink and reflected on our contentment. Good news/bad news! Bad news is that we were about to encounter our first thunderstorm – with relative haste, washing line was pulled in, chairs, dog beds, plus dogs thrown in the motorhome. We spent the rest of the day indoors accompanied by bags of wet washing and a serious Chinese laundry. Good news – for the first time ever we both saw where the rainbow touched the ground. Our fortune is guaranteed!

HARD TO SEE - THE RAINBOW
IS BEYOND THE CARAVANS

Carole has been so efficient in her research of the solar panel that to date we have not had a need of the generator. SO, we thought it time to see if the air conditioning could be generator operated. Took the instruction book, with two sets of hand written notes and covertly placed them in our storage box next to the generator - no need to present as novices! Followed the instructions and after many attempts the generator would not fire. As always someone appeared out of nowhere to assist - went straight to the generator only to witness our copious amounts of technical literature. Final diagnosis - no petrol!

Tried our hand at crossing the Swinging Bridge - rather like John Cleese's 'Minister for Silly Walks' - you felt obliged to high step as you crossed!