Thanks for your hospitality Queensland, we must do this again. We left Allora late this morning, 10 a.m, and made our way south towards the State border, passing through Warwick but diverting around Stanthorpe. We enjoyed our time in Queensland but its got colder again as we move south – a lot of frosts over the last few days.
We were going to stay at the Tenterfield Showgrounds but it turns out they were more expensive than the caravan parks so we booked into Craig’s Caravan Park (but I couldn’t see him anywhere) and walked up the main street to look at the sights. A strange town in that here it was Friday and the street was virtually empty, with heaps of restaurants and cafes but little in the way of other retail outlets.
Of course we had to find the Tenterfield Saddler as per the Peter Allen song but what I found more interesting was the memorial to Sir Henry Parkes who made a speech in the Tenterfield School of Arts on the 24th October 1889 that eventually led to Australia’s establishment as an independent nation (see https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/tenterfield-oration )
We are heading towards the coast tomorrow so it will be interesting to see what the weather brings for us.