Because we went to bed so early last night, Greg was up before the sparrows, and Wendy not long after. We knew we didn't have far to travel, but were still on the road by 7:30am; there were no live kangaroos to be seen.
Our first stop was at the Dawson Mine lookout to view the open cut coal mine; it is massive as Google Maps attests to. Difficult to photograph due to the sun being in the wrong sky! (maybe just us being in the wrong place at the wrong time, the tourist blurb should say "best photographed after midday".)
We rolled though Banana and did not see anything that we should stop for, and arrived at the Queensland Heritage Park Biloela at the very early time of 9:20am!! And they let us in. After setting up on site #39, we had mornos, then hit the streets of Biloela by bicyle.We only did 14km but covered the important things.
As it is Thursday, we decided to have lunch out (rather than dinner) and decided upon Thai. We had the most delicious meals at Thai-Noi and are considering going back tomorrow. After lunch we did a spot of grocery shopping before heading back to the van for a rest. Biloela seems to be a little gem of a place with a surprisingly good bicycle path network for a country town.
After our rest, we hit the Heritage Park displays; there is a LOT of OLD stuff here!
Exercises, crocheting, watching the TDF with a glass of wine finished another great day on the road in the wonderful State of Queensland.
The road was a vast improvement of previous days, with only a slight breeze.
Photos are not in chronological order!
Overburden from the Dawson Coal Mine
Dawson mine from the lookout
looking from the other side of the viewing platform
Part of thr Dawson Mine on Google Maps
Moura #2 Memorial Area - Garden
Sign at Banana
Biloela Art Gallery (BAG) - painted lanterns and coconut shell
BAG - woven mat
BAG - "Bark Bag"
BAG - "Disaster" - certainly looks like it!
BAG - the only real painitng in the gallery - hills
Outside the gallery - "Cattle muster"
some painted jugs and pots outside the gallery
"Spirit of the Land" - murals on the Biloela water tank depicting connected women of two cultures who together tell their stories
"Greycliffe Homestead" - a homestead built about 1870 and relocated to Biloela
Greg remembering how to operate the 25 Pounder Gun, Field Artillery; his first job in the Army in 1968
Biloela Cenotaph
Wendy liked the table cloth at the Thai restaurant at Biloela
Our Thai meals
Queensland Heritage Park (QHP) displays
QHP - a W.Walker wheat mill
QHP - Ford Model A
The pole holding up the tent of the QHP indoor display
QHP - an old kitchen and dining room
bedroom
Murals in the QHP
Quite apt after the last coupel of years in Australia
The "pretty boy" at QHP; he only said "hello"
QHP
QHP, the old station house
The tent that houses the QHP indoor display
An old dead tree at QHP
One of the unisex ensuites at QHP, there are 5 of them
The REALLY OLD stuff at QHP
QHP caravan park
Us at Moura Apex Park this morning
Apex park
Apex park
Dawson Mine
Dawson Mine
Art gallery
Buddah at Thai-Noi Restaurant
Thai-Noi Restaurant
Sunset at Biloela
Apex Park childrens playground
Dawson River at Apex Park
