We were again up ready to depart by 6.00am.
There was further wet weather driving from Hay across the Hay Plain to Wyalong, where we again fuelled up for the rest of the drive home.
We arrived in Mildura just before 9.00am and topped up with fuel.
We were happy to arrive safe and sound at home just before lunch time.
Our Queensland trip had come to an end.
Roll on October when we head off to Tasmania.
We left the John Oxley Caravan Park around 7.45am to travel to Hay, where had booked a cabin.
We had some road works hold us up between Gilgandra and Dubbo, what was previously a nice clean white car, was then a dirty brown car. The rain and trucks we passed didn't help to keep the car clean.
The rain was hardest around Dubbo.
We again stopped at the Dish and took the opportunity to take some more photos.
We finally arrive at Hay around 6.00pm and booked into our cabin.
We were up and ready to leave Arana Hills at 4.30am. We had agreed to be ready to go by 5.00am, but we both woke early and decided to leave earlier than intended.
Fortunately we had the Nuvi to guide us on our way and around an hour later were on the highway heading south.
We stopped in Warwick for some breakfast before stopping at the Queenslad/New South Wales border for the obligatory photo.
Lunch was consumed at Glen Inness, where we also fuelled up.
We finally arrived at the John Oxley Caravan Park in Coonabarabran late in the afternoon, pretty much exhausted.
This morning one of our hosts woke up with a little hangover.
It was not hard to imagine why, after our late night sitting around the fire.
Late in the afternoon we packed the car, ready for the long trip back home.
Another non-eventful day.
In the evening we lit the pot belly and sat outside by the fire.
This morning we visited Old Petrie Village and the nearby Museum.
The village has around a dozen restored homes and stores which are being used as shops. oday was not a market day so all the shops were very quiet.
We then proceeded onto the Seaview Museum on Bribie Island.
Both museums were very well presented and provided good information on the history of the area.
We purchased fish'n'chips for lunch at Bongaree and ate them on the foreshore, feeding some of the local birdlife as well before returning to our accommodation in Arana Hills.
Today we hit the local shops.
In the morning we went to the locak KMart where we bought shoes for both of us as well as some Christmas presents.
In the afternoon we went to Brookside Shopping Centre where I bought a new CASSIO watch for $90 (having been quoted $130 to service my old watch!), go figure!
We arrived back at our accommodation around 5.00pm.
