Hebel to ?

19/05/2011. After a good week at the Ridge we have moved on to our 18th stop so far for 2011,  Hebel is our home for a few days, Hebel is on the NSW/QLD border.

A great little pub here which was originally opened in 1894 as a Cobb and Co changing way station, it still has the original hitching posts out the front,

 as a lot of old towns in the Outback have, you feel like you are in a time warp.
Legend has it that members of the Kelly gang drank in this watering hole?, to me I think it is a long way from their home ground of NSW/VIC.
Whilst having a beer here the post man made a delivery of beer on his round, never seen that before.

The general store was once the old dance hall, built in the 1890s and is full of character, the original dance floor is still there, with plenty of noises and groans as you walk on the floor, the Woolpack dinning room is still as it was way back in the later parts of the 18th century, the caravan park is behind the store and is only $15.00 a night and no charge to use the washing machine.

25th May. Now back at the Nindigully Pub free camping area, when in this area we always stay here, it is one of our Favourites. Just in time for happy hour (4pm) with beer and wine only $2 a glass the place is packed to the rafters with a lot of grey nomads enjoying the cheap grog, and there was also entertainment, this young guy had a great voice and sung a lot of good country and western songs.

 We have stayed here about 5 or 6 times, and this is the second time that I have got the rig bogged, well not so much bogged but just slipping and sliding in the mud.
We were not the only ones to get stuck as another camper got his van wedged between 2 trees and he had to cut one down with a chainsaw.

24th May. Well after a busy night with road trains coming and going, and mice running over the van, (a mice plague out here) we packed up, Sandra was in for a shock, when she found her sneakers, she discovered that mice had been in them overnight.
Stayed for a rest last night at Wesmar, then drove on to Moonie for fuel an some Tucker, inside the roadhouse was a display of feral pigs, the largest in Australia, heaviest weighed in at 37 kilo's. Moonie was the first place in Australia where oil was found, in 1961 wells were drilled to a depth of 2 thousand metres and produced on average 1500 barrels of oil a day.

After the break it was a short drive to Dalby then onto the small town of Bell, and camped at the Bells and Whistles C/V/Park.

Sandra Made friends with a 12 day old Angus Bull Calf, which was been cared for by the park manager's, as its mother had died, I hope that the little bugger survives 
25th Tonight and State of Origin on TV, we will watch it in the camp kitchen manager is cooking a Pizza for us to enjoy.
Will N.S.W. ever win a Series of Origin?, I do not know, Cane Toads have to much Pride and Passion to lose, good on them they never give up.
Well the cane Toads have one again no surprise here.
26th. Stopped at Goomeri on our way to Bauple, Goomeri has a Pumpkin Festival each year but not this time of year, only a small town so we move on.
Bauple is only 169km from Hervey Bay, we will free camp here tonight. Bauple is the Indigenous name for the Macadamia Nut.
We are camping at the free camp here in Bauple, a nice spot. Walked downtown to the Museum had a look, San bought some Rosella jam, then went to the cafe for a taste test of the Macadamia products, love Macadamia nuts, had Tea and Coffee, Nut Tart and Sour Cream, Yummo said San, the young waitress was very informative its a family affair in business, they have planted over 40000 nut trees, all are doing well.

The first nut tree was found on Bauple Mountain back in the 1800s. 
After Bauple we have moved on to Hervey Bay for a week or two. 
 Catching up with old Friends and making new one's

10/06/2011. Packed up once again and drove to Baffle Bobs caravan Park at Baffle Creek, which is south of Miriam vale, no phone or TV reception also no Internet, its nice and quiet with plenty of green grass, hot showers, a full size bowling green, 12 hole golf course, large swimming pool and a boat jetty, with a large number of Roo's roaming around.

A couple of days after arriving, San and I were walking around the property taking photos, when Bob from the office was driving straight at us in his car, when San moved he would move the car toward her, he yelled out telling us we were trespassing, get back on the other side of the fence or he would call the Police.
 I said to him there was no fence just a hedge with openings that you could walk through.
He is just an arrogant idiot, he has had a couple of strokes but no excuse for the way he speaks to people, his wife Nola is a very nice person we get on well with her.
 next morning Bob drove past and said good morning, what a Prick we ignored him. 
15/6th. Tonight is state of Origin Bob and Nola are putting on a Sausage Sizzle tonight up in the camp kitchen with the game on Telly also betting on the game and I won $20 for picking the score, the Blues won the game and Bob had to pay up.  
Morning walks again with the Roo,s, also saw Red Tailed Cockatoos and some Burdikin Ducks.

Had happy hour later that evening, with some Nomads that we have got to know over the last week here.