November 12th, Finished packing up at Poona and
headed off to Kingaroy, with a stop at Kilkivan for lunch at “the Left Bank”
Café. We both had the Ploughmans Lunch which was excellent. We booked into the
Big4 Kingaroy Holiday Park and got set up in time to experience our first big
electrical storm, in a long time, which then settled down to steady rain for
most of the night.
November 13th, We went into Town and I put my
paperwork in at Centrelink while Val got started on the Shopping at the Supa
IGA. We drove around the CBD just to familiarize ourselves with the place and
went to the RSL Club for lunch and a Chardy. The storm paid us a visit again
tonight but it split in two and went around us so we only had a nice shower of
rain.
November 14th, We had another storm this morning
that didn’t last too long and then it was hot. We went to the Information
Centre after lunch, to pick up some brochures, and found it housed an Art
Gallery and Museum, as well. The Art Gallery was the old Council Chambers and
we were very impressed with the quality of the local Art. The Museum I will
have to go through on another day but we did go in to watch a very interesting
video of the Peanut Industry in its early years and it was very back breaking work
then.
November 16th, I went back to the Museum this
morning to look at all the displays that Val isn’t interested in and had an
enjoyable couple of hours, just browsing.
th, We called in to the Museum again,
this morning, and watched the 2nd, latest version of the Peanut
story. This video showed the latest equipment, now in use on the Farms, and included
a tour through the Processing Factory, which is just across the road from the
Information Centre. It was very informative and educational. We then drove out
to a Peanut Farm, only 7 Klms north of Town, where we were told that we could
buy peanut products much cheaper than in Town, at the Peanut Van. When we got
there and Val had selected what she wanted to buy, we were informed that they
don’t do EFPOS and we had no cash, bugger! We drove back home and I started
packing up to leave in the morning for Dalby.
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