Bundaberg Qld August 19 2023

 Bundaberg Qld August 19 2023

Just a transport day to get closer to Tewantin. 320 kilometres worth of transport. The road is sort of Ok, great in parts and only two slow-me-downs for roadworks... that didn’t exist. That is annoying. Only thing was that the wind had picked up and was buffeting us from all quarters and it was handwork and a really tiresome trip all round. Another thing, ‘my’ bedroom window popped open, which it hasn’t done for some tome. We stopped and closed it, but by the time we got to our rest stop, it was open again. Odd, really odd. Oh and the spare tyre on the van has moved across to the left about 300mm! On this leg, most would stop at Miriam Vale, which is the turnoff for 1770 and Agnes Water, and for the foolish, Bundaberg.

I was staring to struggle and as we came into Bororen, a tiny town about 10km north of Miriam Vale, I made a snap decision to pull off into the large, well marked but mostly empty RV parking, next to the brand new toilets, and take our 2 hour rest break there, instead of in ‘MV’ which is always crowded with travellers.  We had a choice between the Red Rocket Diner, the Big Giraffe and the Big Record Diner, complete with thousands of LPs, DVDs, CDs and even the odd Cassette!. 

We chose the Big Record, because it was closest. And they made fine coffee and great raisin toast.

Bororen Qld

Bororen Qld

Bororen Qld

I bought a $1 Kenny Rogers CD with lots of songs i’d never heard of. It were total absolute garbage of course and if we weren’t as environmentally conscious as we all are these days, it would have ended its days as a frisbee out the window at 102kph. As it is, it’s gone straight the the laundry, the resting place in every van park for any unwanted magazines, books, DVDs and the odd CD.

We had booked into the Bundaberg East Cabin & Tourist Park, which ‘someone’ said we had never bee to but which I reckoned was the the first one we ever stayed at, back in 2013. I was right, its a odd quirky place, and now that the factory, whose wall we are backed up against is closed, quite quiet and pleasa