SEVENTH DAY – THURSDAY 15TH JULY
What a beautiful day, there is a clear blue sky and the sun is shining. We had eggs, bacon, mushrooms and tomato for breakfast – Graeme cooks a great ‘bushmans breakfast’ . We packed up ‘The Snail” my nickname for the van and then did another walk. We walked to the Koonin Lookout – which was a great view down Diamond Valley – so called because in the sun the tiny flecks in the rocks glisten like diamonds. If you looked really, really carefully you could see it. There was also these pines called hoop pines – a native tree which is what the lookout is named after, koonin being the aboriginal name for the tree. They grow naturally in wet rocky areas. On our return walk we trekked down to the Waterhole. This was a lovely place and I’m glad we made the effort – had to climb over rocks to get to it. It is a big deep water hole naturally carved out in between rock walls – we saw it from above on our walk yesterday but it looked so much prettier up close. We could also see the ‘waterfall’ that we saw yesterday a bit better, but it was still only a piddle of a falls. We then walked back to our van and left the campsite back to the town Crows Nest. We saw a statue of Jimmy Crow who the name of the town was named after. He was an aboriginal who lived in a big hollowed out tree which people called Jimmy’s Crows Nest – hence the name. We also stopped and looked in a very big Antique shop. They had a really lovely brass statue of pixie/elf which stood about a metre tall. He was holding a frog in one hand and had a frog in a bag on his back. Hey – I just liked it! We continued towards our next nights stop over. Along the way we were behind a double decker cow carrying truck – stinky. The terrain was steepish in sections and mostly undulating. There were quite a few Brahman herds. There were also some wineries although we couldn’t see the grapes being grown. We stopped in Yarraman to get a couple of supplies from the IGA. After this the terrain looked very ochre and dry. We arrived in Kilcoy and saw a nice camping area so we decided to stop here. We were going to go to another place off the track a bit (40 km away) but decided this place looked ok. It will mean we won’t have to go as far tomorrow. We are heading to Nambour. Can’t wait to see my brothers face when we go to his place tomorrow night for his 60th birthday tea with the family. Everyone knows we’re coming except my brother.