We are looking forward to a relaxing couple of days in Mitchell - even though we will be needing to do some housekeeping today - eventually you have to do the basics like washing of clothes, towels and sheets.
Our stay tonight is at the Major Mitchell Caravan park on the banks of the Maranoa River just on the edge of the Mitchell township. It is a lovely park where they light a big campfire every
night for all to enjoy (in fact they seem to keep the fire ticking over all day). There is also a $5.00 pancake brekkie tomorrow morning - cooked at the fire pit to raise funds for the Royal Flying Doctor Service. We will definitely be fronting up for that one.
Today has turned into a beautiful sunny day - and after setting up camp we got the washing out on the line - and then went for a drive to scout out our free camp for tomorrow night with Cindy and Russ. We have checked out the 2x recommended sites out the West side of town on the river - one of these should do us nicely!!
The afternoon was spent just relaxing in the gorgeous sunshine.
We did take ourselves for a walk into the pub to stock up on more wine and lookaround the place a bit. We chatted with a couple of shopowners about the floods of the past couple of years. They are understandably still quite affected by these events and even thiugh they were here and lived through it - they find it hard to believe that the river (that is the Maranoa River) could come up so high and inundate all of the town.
This seems a lovely little community and the town has a really nice feel to it.
In the evening we joined several other travellers around the communal campfire listening to a bush poet - he was very talented and very funny so i have purchased one of his CD's to listen to in the car. Later around the fire we chatted with a couple young families who had just set off on a road trp for the school holidays.
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HI, Looks like a great trip. We will be heading the same direction in September. Keep up the blogging.
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