Into the country

So with the thermometer on 32 and rising we set off up the Bruce highway to Childers . A pretty , sweet , farming town , famous for it fruit , nuts and sugar cane and sadly an arson attack on the Palace backpackers hotel which killed 15 young fruit pickers , mainly British in 2000. Now a museum, simply and beautifully done , only spoiled by the rumble of the big trucks up the high street outside

Keith then took us to his birth place and family farm at Dallarnil . The house no longer exists sadly

35 degrees

The new ranch owners have a sense of humour

And a donkey gate

With thunder clouds gathering in the distance , we met Cousin Ed ( not Eddie) in Biggenden , a local celebrity, tour guide , part time mineral stone collector and polisher

With some aboriginal artefacts to see that he had found in his garden

And many tales to tell over fish and chips ( and my slightly dodgy chicken/ avo melt )

At Ed’s weekly fuel stop

Time was pressing and we followed lunch with Ed’s tour of his current family farm , however the combine harvester had a puncture and his daughter was down with a virus , so the farm house was quarantined and the wheat cutting display cancelled

Biggenden , however still had a few sites to see before we completed our loop , via Maryborough and back to the cool evening of Hervey Bay . Lady was in waiting for her evening walk before the thunder storms and rain struck

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