new year wanders

[JBJ]

Hi All,

Well Boots & I decided to go for a Qld trip, after having some discussions about a new years eve party at Nindigully in SW Qld.

So we left home in pouring rain on the 20th December, heading for relo's in Brisbane. Rained all the way.

Set off next morning for Bargara near Bundaberg, & stayed at Beachfront Caravan Park. Its an old park, with small sites. We stayed until Boxing Day, & had Christmas with Boots sister & family.

Set of for inland, & travelled out thru Childers, Murgon, & lots of little towns , & stopped at Kingaroy. Lots of rain while we were travelling, & poured down when we stopped driving.

Next day off to Chinchilla, & stayed at a real nice little caravan park opposite the town swimming pool. Caught up with Andrew ( Smut57) & his daughter. He gave us a christmas lights tour in his LHD 57 Chev Coupe, & it was an interesting ride for Boots in the front seat.

Next day drove to Roma. Really hot day, & not real good highways out there. Long, straight, flat & bumpy. Arrived & camped overnight. Roma didnt seem to have a blade of grass in the town except in the parks ( I suppose they were irrigated), its so dry. But as always it started raining soon after we arrived.





It was so hot that the natives were feeling it






Boots wasnt happy with this guy walking around near our caravan site.




Next morning off thru Surat & St George to our destination of Nindigully.




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Set up as it started raining again, then proceeded to rain on & off for the four days we were there.







Santa 28A rocked in next day, & stayed next to us as planned.





New years eve was different, as the bush boys & girls really know how to party, especially in the wet.










There were enormous crowds, but nearly all left by new years day midday, when they had a UTE show, with Aggro as guest judge. Havent found the link to their website photos yet, but I'll post it when I find it.







Drove home in the rain, thru Goondiwindi, then stopped for lunch in Yetman. This is the only Daggsey style pix I took all trip.




Stayed overnight in a motel in Tenterfield to get out of the rain, then home next day.

Nearly 3000 KMs in a fortnight, & 75% in the rain.

It was a great trip

JBJ

[cobber]

G'day JBJ,

Good to see a bit of rain outback aye? You should travel out there more often

Cobber.

[Deleted]

Hi JBJ and Boots

Never mind the rain ... .. anywhere but home has to be the place to be on NYE.
Country folk are always ready to party . Just look at the TV footage of the floods at Coonamble NSW.... water up to thier balls but the farmers are dancing in the streets... A prosperous 2010/ 2011 assured with a bit of hard work on the farm.

Looks like ya's covered some interesting territory.

Pleased to hear ya spoilt Boots with at least ONE night in a motel.
Thanks for sharing the photos.

Reddo

[Daggsey]

Happy New Year JBJ and Boots..............thanks for sharing your little journey with us all..........it just galvanizes my desire to get back "on the wallaby" .

As for the rain that you encountered, just shows how generous we West Aussies are........sharing cyclone Lawrence with the rest of the country ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

Daggsey

[santa28a]

As JBJ mentioned a NYE trip to Nindigully was on the cards for Sharyn & myself and after some disscusions Dennis & Boots decided to join us on there South West QLD adventure.
We set off on the Wednesday morning prior to NYE and all was going well untill we got to Warwick when the van seemed to be wandering a bit, and on close inspection we had lost one of the nuts off an axle U bolt
While I was under there I though I should check some of the other bolts and discovered we had broken the front eye bolt on one of the springs , 2 hours later we were on our way again



When we finally arived at the Nindigully Pub we found JBJ & Boots already set up on a nice spot not too far from the Pub BUT out of the mud and slush that the rain along with a 100 or so 4wds had created







The girls ( Sharyn, Sue and my 3yo grand daughter) get into the NYE festivities



As Dennis metioned they sure know how to party out west, two bands on NYE, $5000 worth of fireworks, another band at 10am new years day, appropriatlly called "hair of the dog", a ute show judged by jamie Dunn and Aggro, some circlework by the lads in everthing from 4wds to old commodores and yet another band on New years day night ;D ;D ;D





By late new years day the Moonie river was rising





We headed off on the Saturday and we also decided to stop in a Motel this time in Goondiwindi and after a huge storm pased over I finally discovered what is at the end of a rainbow ;D ;D ;D



Sunday morning we did some touring around Gundy and took the now almost obligatory "daggsey" photo. This is the Victoria Hotel in downtown Goondiwindi



The springs in the van now require reset as they have collapsed to a point where now have less than 2inches of suspension travel

All up a great weekend away despite the rain, mud, bad roads, loosing a white wall flapper, etc.


Cheers,
Steve & Sharyn.

[Roehm3108]

SO how many fish did you guys catch? Some great cod in those rivers around there, I'm told.

Thanks for sharing your trips with us guys, some great pics of what Australia can offer

Ray

[JBJ]

Hi Ray,

With the colour of the rivers & amount of mud, I didnt bother to fish.

I like sweet fish, not mudfish

JBJ

[Deleted]

Onya Santa and Sharyn

I can almost feel the mud between my toes ;D ;D
And..the odd forum member saying.. Yuk.. how primitive/ feral is that for a weekend away.
I say..
Beer, mud, circle work....

Three bands in 2 days.... 8-)Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeehhhhaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!

Mate .. You guys .. as well as Dennis and Boots have shown It doesnt have to be a well organised vintage van getogether to have a bloody good time with your Family, ..Van .. and towcar.
Fun is where you find it and what you make of the place you are staying at.

People, places, pubs, partys and ..... PANADOL, ;
A V8 towcar....with a vintage van on the back...Doing Circle work.... Now THAT would certainly be a crowd stopper....

Can just see the contents of the cupboards when ya finally pull up..
Glad ta hear ya's had a bloody good time mate... more rainc omin'

Reddo