We left Nanango and headed for the block, passing through Yarraman. This timber town has a population of around 1000, located a the junction of the D'Aguilar and New England Highways, about 154 kms nw of Brisbane. The name comes from an Aboriginal word meaning "wild horse" - be ont he lookout for the metal horse sculpture on the northern side of town......we missed that one but I snapped a pic of the pub as we drove by.
On the road for about 20 minutes when we came to a sudden stop. There was an accident between Yarraman and Blackbutt which held us up for about an hour. That's okay as we are not in a hurry to get anywhere. We found out it was a single vehicle accident, 5 young girls travelling to Dalby for a free concert this week-end. Luckily no serious injuries. A lot of the cars on our side were able to turn around and take a detour via a dirt road to Blackbutt, we ended up first car to go through when road cleared and the cars on other side had backed up for kms. Most cars full of young people headed to Dalby....
Another drive by shot at Blackbutt, yep of a pub. Blackbutt is named after the eucalyptus pilularis trees native to the area, which have very rough bark and black patches on the trunk (or butt) that make them appear like they have been through a bushfire. Blackbutt population is about 1,200. The deep volcanic soils of the surrounding countryside support a variety of agriculture, from forestry hoop pine plantations to avocado orchard, olives and commercial flower growers.
Up and over the Blackbutt range there is some serious road works going on here. We were lucky to jag the green light as we approached the road works which went the whole length of the range. We continued to see cars full of young ones presumably on their way to Dalby.
We turned off the D'Aguilar into the Brisbane Valley Highway and through Harlin - a drive by shot of the pub and look at that sky, the dark clouds hanging low over the hills. Through Toogoolawah to Esk where we enjoyed a pie at the Bakery there. Nothin like a nice hot pie on cold wet day.
All these small towns we are travelling through out here have some great little antique shops.. this one at Esk, across the road from the pub. I went for a browse while my Darl went to pub.
We stopped at the Woolies at Plainlands to get a couple supplies and the bottlo, just made it to the block and set up the camper in the rain AND it rained and rained all that arvo and into the night. We are not camping in the shed as the possums have made a bit of a mess. My brother, Graham and nephew Nick come up for a visit. It didn't stop raining and there was only one thing to do........have a drink or three!
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| Nick was happy with some biscuits and beer cans to play with |
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| Our iron bark tree - home for the wood ducks - true! |
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| Wood ducks nattering away |
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| Another one, 6 in total up there |
Sunday the rain had stopped but still pretty overcast, Graham left and we pottered around. My darl started picking up sticks to make a bon fire for one of our next trips up here, too wet this time for a fire.
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| The block from road |
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| Harry the hoon come to visit on his Spyder |
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| He had to drop a skiddie in the mud |
My Darl busied himself on Monday and gurnied the shed. We moved all the furniture etc., outside, I was hoping it wouldn't turn to rain. We just made in mid arvo a sprinkle come over and we raced to get everything back in the shed. So nice to get the shed cleaned out, we now have to catch and remove the possums and possum proof the shed. I picked up some more sticks for the bon fire and did some blogging, not much more to do now....
This is my Darl's favorite rag, it has travelled all around Oz with us from Mackay. Dad gave him a few rags always handy to have a couple rags around isn't it dad? My dad has a bit of a fetish with rags, they are everywhere you look. Anyway my Darl got a bit attached to this one and used the absolute crap out of it as you can see, probably the most used item we took with us, apart from the dustpan brush which was used so much my Darl cut in half, now we have half a dustpan brush.
We had a bit of a claytons barby cooked on the primus in the pan and had Tommy, Liz and Harry over. It was great to catch up with them all. Liz has been following the blog and enjoying the read. We just showed them our little video snippets taken along the way. Look how clean the walls are now, good job Darl!
We left Nanango and headed for the block, passing through Yarraman. This timber town has a population of around 1000, located a the junction of the D'Aguilar and New England Highways, about 154 kms nw of Brisbane. The name comes from an Aboriginal word meaning "wild horse" - be ont he lookout for the metal horse sculpture on the northern side of town......we missed that one but I snapped a pic of the pub as we drove by. 
On the road for about 20 minutes when we came to a sudden stop. There was an accident between Yarraman and Blackbutt which held us up for about an hour. That's okay as we are not in a hurry to get anywhere. We found out it was a single vehicle accident, 5 young girls travelling to Dalby for a free concert this week-end. Luckily no serious injuries. A lot of the cars on our side were able to turn around and take a detour via a dirt road to Blackbutt, we ended up first car to go through when road cleared and the cars on other side had backed up for kms. Most cars full of young people headed to Dalby....
Another drive by shot at Blackbutt, yep of a pub. Blackbutt is named after the eucalyptus pilularis trees native to the area, which have very rough bark and black patches on the trunk (or butt) that make them appear like they have been through a bushfire. Blackbutt population is about 1,200. The deep volcanic soils of the surrounding countryside support a variety of agriculture, from forestry hoop pine plantations to avocado orchard, olives and commercial flower growers.
Up and over the Blackbutt range there is some serious road works going on here. We were lucky to jag the green light as we approached the road works which went the whole length of the range. We continued to see cars full of young ones presumably on their way to Dalby.
We turned off the D'Aguilar into the Brisbane Valley Highway and through Harlin - a drive by shot of the pub and look at that sky, the dark clouds hanging low over the hills. Through Toogoolawah to Esk where we enjoyed a pie at the Bakery there. Nothin like a nice hot pie on cold wet day. 
All these small towns we are travelling through out here have some great little antique shops.. this one at Esk, across the road from the pub. I went for a browse while my Darl went to pub.
We stopped at the Woolies at Plainlands to get a couple supplies and the bottlo, just made it to the block and set up the camper in the rain AND it rained and rained all that arvo and into the night. We are not camping in the shed as the possums have made a bit of a mess. My brother, Graham and nephew Nick come up for a visit. It didn't stop raining and there was only one thing to do........have a drink or three!
Sunday the rain had stopped but still pretty overcast, Graham left and we pottered around. My darl started picking up sticks to make a bon fire for one of our next trips up here, too wet this time for a fire. 
My Darl busied himself on Monday and gurnied the shed. We moved all the furniture etc., outside, I was hoping it wouldn't turn to rain. We just made in mid arvo a sprinkle come over and we raced to get everything back in the shed. So nice to get the shed cleaned out, we now have to catch and remove the possums and possum proof the shed. I picked up some more sticks for the bon fire and did some blogging, not much more to do now....
This is my Darl's favorite rag, it has travelled all around Oz with us from Mackay. Dad gave him a few rags always handy to have a couple rags around isn't it dad? My dad has a bit of a fetish with rags, they are everywhere you look. Anyway my Darl got a bit attached to this one and used the absolute crap out of it as you can see, probably the most used item we took with us, apart from the dustpan brush which was used so much my Darl cut in half, now we have half a dustpan brush. 
We had a bit of a claytons barby cooked on the primus in the pan and had Tommy, Liz and Harry over. It was great to catch up with them all. Liz has been following the blog and enjoying the read. We just showed them our little video snippets taken along the way. Look how clean the walls are now, good job Darl!
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