St George Qld July 14, 2015

Our second day in St George. Still nothing going on. The highlight of the day was going to be a crawl of the 'must sees' in town: emu eggs, Model T at the bakery and wine tasting and lunch at the winery.

St George Qld

First of all, we found the bakery, and had to ask the nice lady about the much publicised 1917 Baker's delivery van. It turned out to be down the back near the shed where her husband may or may not have been 'working' on it. He was nowhere to be seen so she very obligingly left her busy bakery and took us down to have a look. It's just an old car turned out in Bakers livery. It's not even local. We smiled and said all the right things then went looking for the egg.

1917 Model T. Bakery. St George Qld

The 'world class attraction' (it must be true, it's on the sign) is right across the road, nestled in between a cafe, a florist. and a hairdresser. We were getting excited by this time, but when we saw that they wanted $3 a head to go into their shop to look at the eggs..... Well, our interest level plummeted and we walked on by.

Top of the attractions. St George Qld

Then we could wait no longer and headed the 1km down the road to the winery. Naturally, you drive past rows and rows of grape vines before turning down the driveway to the rustic looking shed that obviously doubled as 'the winery'. Having elected not to take the tour of the premises, we sampled a few drops and ordered lunch, which we had at a table out on the lawn in the sun. We had a half bucket of pumpkin soup each followed by a shared ploughman platter, washed down with tea. All rather nice actually.

Me musing on our rather nice lunch and the state of the world if it were not for travellers such as ourselves. Riversands Winery St George Qld

We both are still not brilliant, so an afternoon nap seemed in order. I eventually dragged myself back out into the world and took a walk down the road to the showground where the Yellowbelly Music Festival was almost in full swing. The showground appeared to be packed with caravans and so I was intrigued to see just what was going on, given that the actual show itself doesn't start until Saturday. Sure enough, in the one pavilion, next to the grandstand, there they all were, all neatly lined up in their caravan chairs watching a string of hopefuls going through their paces at the open mike (this goes on for 5 days straight before the main event mind you). I stood enthralled at the entrance and watched as the typical country warblers nasalled and twanged their way through home-written ditties.

These folk know how to have fun. Yellow belly Music festival. Showgrounds. St George Qld

Part of the sea of caravans. Showgrounds. St George Qld

'Grand'-stand. Showground. St George Qld

Enough already, I wandered back to the van and made us some afternoon tea based around a date roll we had bought earlier from the bakery. It too, disappointed as it should have walnuts in it and could only be described as 'bland'. Oh well, lovely sitting in the sun for a change, and you can't argue with that.