Retreat

 Just north of Miles was a retreat with a difference.

Its a veterans retreat.

Cabins caravaning and camping available for veterans of all services.

Every third night is free.

This was the end of the road for us so we turned and drove back to Miles. With me testing out driving the manual ute on a quiet and gravel road. Not something that I want to be doing on a regular basis, I love my auto but at least I know I can drive it if I need to.

A quirky photo from Wandoan.

The Wandoan Surf Club. 

What the?

I asked the waitress about it when she bought our coffees. 

It was a printing hub and when it opened a few years before was the only place in town to surf the net. Of course!

Wandoen

 This was for a parkrun. We had travelled up to suss it out on the Wednesday. Great park and lake. It did start to sprinkle a little while we were walking around. Not really getting wet but ground was becoming muddy and as there was clay involved, it stuck to our shoes making us about an inch taller. Lyckily there were rocks and gravel on the track vack to the ute and we were able to scape much of the mud off.

Saturday was dry so not a problem.

Soldiers park and the statue was made was made from tools

Nice pretty garden

Soldier settlers avenue of honour. Visitor centre was over to the left and there was a coffee van as well.

Miles

 Quite a bigish country town with all the facilities that you would want or need. We went north south and east while we were there.

Dogwood creek was jyst out of town to the west.

Heading west is Dogwood creek, no idea why it is called that. We needed info from the info board. Apply some ma ths to get co-ordinates for a cache, which wasnt far away.

Rest stop on either side of highway with a toilet block on one side. Overhead rail line.

The hint was 12, each pylon was numbered. The cache was about head high in a bolt hole.

Condamine

We drove to Condamine yesterday. It is apparently the home or start of the cow bell called the Condamine bell.

This is it, need a big bull for this one to fit.

Of course there was a cache there. 

 Silly me didnt check before hand and it had a dnf, while I was rummaging in the ute for a suitable container, Warren found it up high in a corner of the shelter.

There was an airport halfway back to Miles with anther xache there.

e container

K8ngaroy Cache Fest

 First caching event for geocaching Queensland, held at the showgrounds in Kingaroy.

We had gone to parkrun in Proston, 60kms away but made it back for the offical opening and cutting of the ribbon by the mayor.

Sheridan had made the peanut. It was the second one, first had been attacked by the president dog and torn to shreds. 

The two ends unscrewed with a pink ribbon to be cut.

The mayor dresses in pink all the time and as it is pink month October for breast cancer the ribbon was pink and so were the scissors.

Cache fest concluded on Monday morning with an annoucement the next one would be in a years time in Cairns, following a mega in Maryborough Easter 2028.

Kingaroy lookout

 Our first day in Kingaroy for the Cache fest was spent doing adventure labs. One took us to the airport, that was a walk around then another invovled driving to a lookout.

Could see all around

Nice picnic tables and plenty of space.

60 metres up the concrete path, Lucy was in her element, she enjoyed running up and down.

a massive thistle, some were a metre high with pretty purple flowers.

Last stop for this adventure lab was the giant peanut as Kingaroy is peanut country as well as the home of Joe Blenogy Peterson, a famous pollie from years ago but still remembered for his down to earth policies and straight talking.

Proston

 Another small township in the country. We stayed here three years ago for a parkrun. When our event was at Kingaroy for the weekend, we needed a parkrun reasonably close.

Choices were Wondai, done in June, Nanago done in March or Proston. Kingaroy, although bigger does not have a parkrun.

Even though Proston was further out, 57kms or an hour was the chosen one, its also the smallest so got to be a help for them.

A lookout just out of town, great views.

Toilet block with fountain outside of it.

Parkrun had thirteen "runners" I did one and a bit laps, 3.20kms