Our next few days of driving were uneventful. The weather was good and it got warmer as we went further north.
We watched for places to stop in smaller towns; sometimes for toilet stops, other times for a lunch break.
On Wednesday, I booked us accommodation in the town of Moree. It is known for its artesian thermals. The place we booked was a caravan park with a lot of cabins and motel rooms. We ended up in a brand new cabin and stayed 2 nights. It was good to relax and I had to plan the next couple of weeks of accommodations and routes. They had thermal pools right on site – 5 pools ranging from a lap pool at 32 degrees C to 4 smaller ones between 34 and 40 degrees C. The pools were just for their guests, not the general public and were not busy at all!
We enjoyed two nights of time in the pools. Our timing was perfect since the upcoming weekend was fully booked with a football tournament in town.
Friday we saw more crops in the fields. We had been seeing something that had been cut off about a foot from the ground. It was dried like corn but still had thick leafy growth, not like a grain would. We finally saw the rest of the plant waiting to be harvested.
primarily for livestock feed (cattle, pigs, poultry), ethanol production, and as a gluten-free human food staple.
On Saturday we had some definite landscape changes. We left the open farmland and had some hills and trees again.
We finally made it to our destination just after lunch on Saturday. We had adjusted our route and landed on the coast just south of Brisbane instead of heading north to Sunshine Coast. When I was looking for accommodation in the area, the weather at Sunshine was showing a week with rain most days. I knew it could certainly change as we got closer (and it did) but we decided with the heat and humidity, maybe staying just a bit further south might be good.
Researching somewhere to stay for more than a night or two was hard and we had to hope the pictures and reviews were right. We were so happy when we got to our location on the Gold Coast.
We’re going to relax in our beautiful surroundings the next days but also do a bit of day tripping to see a bit of the area. Hopefully I can keep caught up with the blog.
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