Back to Maryborough to attend the Maryborough Show tomorrow.
As the Show is on there is no camping at the Showground so we stayed at the Cheery Nomad RV Park and Farmstay.
Nicely setup surroundings but the actual sites are a bit too squeezy for our liking!
We were one of 3 5th wheelers parked at this site, one of them was waiting for their house at RV Homebase to be finished.
Woke to a rather foggy morning as we had had some rain the day before, didn't expect to see fog in Queensland!
We have seen a variety of vehicles being towed behind motorhomes but this is the first 200 Series Landcruiser Sahara being towed behind a motorhome!
Made a day trip to Bundaberg where I photographed several war memorial sites for Monuments Australia, visited the RSL to photograph this clock dedicated to the 47th Batallion.
In pride of place in the foyer was a large model of the MV Oranje, a Dutch luxury liner built in 1939 for the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) route. At the outbreak of the war in Europe it was stuck in Surabaya where it spent a year. It was then loaned to the Australian Govt as a hospital ship and spent the war ferrying wounded Australian troops and repatriating them at the end of the war.
The model was built by a Dutchman living in Bundaberg, he worked on the building of the Oranje as a shipwright before the war and came out to Australia as a migrant after the war.
The reason the model struck a chord with me was that I would watch this ship come past when I was a young lad fishing in the North Sea Canal that links Amsterdam with the North Sea.
http://www.news-mail.com.au/news/model-recalls-ships-rich-history/2024050/
Bundaberg was the home town of Bert Hinkler, an aviation pioneer, and there are several memorials to him in Bundaberg as well as a Bert Hinkler Aviation Museum.
On our trip up to FNQ in 2013 we bypassed Bundaberg on our way back because of time restraints. This time we wanted to have a look but stayed in Gin Gin at the Showground as the caravan parks on offer in Bundaberg didn't appeal.
We stayed at the Gin Gin Showground.
Went down to Tiaro to check out the free camp there, quite close to the road and noisy, so we spent only one night here.
Boy, the Poms were a vindictive lot weren't they? You would think that after 14 years they would have left him to live his life in peace!
Quiet day today, went out to dinner and did some night photography.
This is our last day at the Showground as it will be closed to camping until the 9th of June because of the Maryborough Show.
After a couple of interesting days at RV Homebase we returned for another couple of days to the Maryborough Showground.
Went to the Maryborough Market in the morning, which was very disappointing. They are updating the street where the market is normally held and the market is now in a couple of locations with the bulk of te stalls in front of the bowling club.
Not nearly as many stalls and no atmosphere, we were gone in about an hour.
After lunch we went for a drive to Tin Can Bay and Rainbow Beach.
Tin Can Bay
Rainbow Beach
