Tuesday 25 June 2013

Tara
A small country town, we stayed by the lagoon, a free campsite for the evening. We got the bikes down and rode into the town area. Came back and just relaxed watching the birds. A nice couple walking past noticed that we had a flat tyre on the caravan, so next day we took the tyre to town to have it repaired. Then we hit the road again.

Moved on to Chinchilla and booked into caravan park for a couple of days while we looked around. Also caught up with my grandson who was staying at his Grandmas place. Just out of town.
Chinchilla was named by Ludwig Leichardt in 1844 named after the local jinchilla a native cypress pine. Today it is know as the Melon capital, as it produces around 25% of the country's watermelons.
Wondai another small country town, was our next stop where we stayed with close friends .Nev's wife was very sick with cancer. So we stayed for some time. One day Nev took us out to see the Boondooma Dam
Gloria, Nevs wife passed away while we were staying with them. So it was a hard time for us all.




Especially as felt helpless not knowing how we could help and the only thing was being there her . The last few days Gloria was admitted to hospital. We stayed on for awhile after the funeral to help Nev out. Then we moved on to our next destination.  Bye for now.

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