From Gympie we continued our ride
south. The scenery stayed beautiful. Hilly, green, cattle in the
pastures, jacarandas, birds. The contrast with the coastal area is
big. First to Kenilworth, where we camped at the local Showgrounds.
This is an area, this time owned by volunteers, often by the
town council, where there are sports grounds and facilities, a
community hall, a swimming pool and the like. Sometimes they
advertise these showgrounds as campsites. There are toilets and warm
and cold showers, that's it. The town (very small) was close, there
were some shops and a pub.
From there we rode up a range to a
height of 460 meters to an area called Witta, 11 kms north of Maleny.
There we were expected in a very beautiful big queenslander house, or
maybe mansion is a better word. This house, seated on a big property
at the end of a dirt road belongs to David and Sue. The latter is the
sister of Jen, who was our host a good 3 weeks ago in Atherton. She
suggested us going there. The region is very pretty, the house
overlooked a valley. David and Sue call their house a farm. A large
portion of land belongs to it. Mainly paddocks, meadows for cattle.
They are (semi) retired and bought the property not so long ago. It
had been left empty and unused for three years. Now they are working
hard to bring the overgrown paddocks back in order and they think
they might have some 50 cattle in the the end. We saw the results so
far and it was their own paradise. Here we also stayed two nights and
had a lovely stay with a breakfast in Maleny, a walk over the
property and nice evenings together.
Melany used to be a hippie-town. Still
you can see women in colourfull skirts and leggings and the
atmosphere is relaxed, calm and nice.
By the way: the last posts have been upladed using the personal hotpsot function of our smartphone. Works pretty well, not slow at all. Uploading pictures will cost too many MBs, will be done when there is wifi.
By the way: the last posts have been upladed using the personal hotpsot function of our smartphone. Works pretty well, not slow at all. Uploading pictures will cost too many MBs, will be done when there is wifi.
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