Chinchilla Weir

Whistling kite at Chinchilla Weir

Yikes!

Big Watermelon Slice at Chinchilla – it looked pretty good despite being a bit seedy.

Bottle trees at Durong Bowls Club

Bottle tree trunk patterns

Bottle tree seed pod

Durong Hall – scene of many local social events for 90 years where love was found and hearts were broken.

Wooroolin Lagoon is north of Kingaroy.

Royal spoonbill at Wooroolin

Galah

Everlasting daisies at Wooroolin

Swainsona pea

The old Shire Coucil Chambers at Kingaroy (1913)

Peanut and navy bean silos at Kingaroy

Peanut processing plant.

Historic peanut threshing machine.

This was once a bank where my uncle was manager in the early 1970’s. We stayed upstairs in the bank manager’s residence.

Kingaroy Big Peanut. Did you hear about the peanut that wanted to be a lecturer? It wanted to go into macadamia.

Image at the Visitor Centre from a local peanut farm. Do you want to hear a rumour about peanut butter? Nevermind, I’d rather not spread it.

Nut or gingernut? Navy beans are also a major crop in the Kingaroy District.

Wondai Pioneer sculpture – a hardened bushie with a small bullock team and that’s no yoke.

A giant forest red gum log – s’lumbering.

Forestry Museum at Wondai – closed today. This man bought his new axe at the Chopping Mall.

Wondai has a couple of grand old hotels.

A (slightly) Big Pumpkin at Goomeri. I wasn’t expecting it – it caught me completely off gourd.

Well that’s all for this one – I hope you are inspired to go into the Queensland Outback, see some of the wonders we saw and find more yourself.