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Kingaroy Qld

This was yesterday actually, but the fact is that we had planned to stop here for two nights and relax and see the sights. The van park is bland, no, boring. A few people about, but mostly road workers in all the cabins and all their large trucks out the front. Maybe 3-4 vans and two tents stayed the night. They had a few semi-permanent vans hidden behind the #2 amenities block, but otherwise very quiet indeed. Judy ran foul of the resident laundry dragon when she attempted to do the washing and came back with steam coming out her ears. She would have been happy to pack and vamoose there and then. As it was we decided that we would cut and run in the morning. Kingaroy is associated with three things: peanuts,  Joh BjelkePetersen, one time long serving premier of Qld, and Flo BjelkePetersen's pumpkin scones. Sadly none of these things feature in Kingaroy, in fact nothing features, its the most bland town i can think of. There is the self-proclaimed 'World Famous' peanut ...