Laidley - Gatton

We pack up and headed off, QLD here we come. We are going to Laidley where there is a camp with the first 2 nights free including power. We decide to cross the mountains through Tamborine. Lucky we made it up some of the steep mountains. Once we got inland it was very dry and you can see where the floods stopped. The camp site is on a dam that is practically empty.

Gatton & Laidley are vegetable growing districts but there are no crops ready so we might have to hang around for a couple of weeks if we intend to get work here. We walk into town and have a couple of beers at the local pub (they have 3 to choose from).
Finally we get One HD range and I get to see the T20.
Another beautiful day in Paradise and it is funny to here locals complain about the cold nights. It is 22-25 during the day and down to about 10-12 night. We walked into town again and had to stop off for another beer its thirsty work. This is a nice place and it is nice to spend 3 days in the same place.
We are moving on today and have gone to another free site 20km down the road at Thornton. Free power & Hot showers for up to 3 nights. It is in a valley with the Great Dividing Range on one side and the Liverpool Ranges on the other and in between cabbages & cauliflowers.
We sat around in the afternoon and played some soccer. No channel 10 lucky anyway Carlton lost to Freo.
Its Mothers Day so we are off to Brisbane to Tina’s Nana. She didn’t know we were coming so it was a nice surprise. There is non stop road works most of the way into Brisbane. Its only 110km from where we are camped. We had a nice day and drove back in the afternoon. A stop off at the Walloon Hotel to pick up some beers and we made it back before dark. (Which is not long after 4.30pm in QLD) Not surprised its bloody light at 4.30am its no wonder I can’t sleep.