MT.SUPERBUS

From Warwick we ventured 45 km East through Loch Lomond, Killarney and up the steep 7km ascent to the Queen Mary Waterfalls where the many king parrots and the beautiful red and blue rosellas were happy to come and eat out of our hands. It is a beautiful waterfall and the kids enjoyed the 2km circuit walk through the rainforest from the top to the bottom of the valley and up the other side. We left the next morning for Brisbane after stopping at a café at the top of the road which looked right out over the valley. I am going to call the ACCC and lodge a complaint about the false advertising on the café’s sign out the front. It advertised gorgeous waitresses, well; she was a nice enough girl, but far from gorgeous. So we started passing signs to Mt. Superbus. I thought it was Mount Super Bus but later realised it was Mt. “Superb“ us, although we could have done with a super bus to get up there. On the road to Brisbane you go down Cunningham’s Gap which is a steep, windy descent of about 6 km, got to be careful that the brakes do not heat up too much as they can fail. For this purpose there is a run off area for heavy vehicles that suffer brake fade, which is a long, uphill driveway of sand/gravel. Glade we went down the Gap and not up! We made it to Ipswich that afternoon, 40 km from Brisbane and found it to be quite a cultural backwater, it was not too long before visions of Frankston came to mind. We did not see a lot of Ipswich and left the next morning after some interesting reversing manoeuvres to get out of the caravan park. Phew, we arrived in Brisbane at last but we could not find a caravan park that would fit us in so we parked in the street outside Rick and Janes place, our friends who are getting married in Fiji, and spent the evening with them, it was far better staying there than in a caravan park miles away. There are quite a few people to visit around here so off to Geoff (an old hockey mate of mine) and Kristys place for Saturday and parked outside their place in Mudgareeba. Picked up some nice pies from Yatala on the way and had them for lunch with Geoff and went to Brians, another friends place for dinner. What socialites eh? Cruised south on the Pacific Highway to Mullumbimby to visit Ros and Elly, people we met in Nepal almost 10 years ago, we will be based here for a few days and are leaving the bus here while we go to Fiji. Missed the turn off to here and tried to find somewhere to turn around. Eventually attempted a three point turn and managed to squash our bikes between the bus and trailer, ending up with Helens and my bikes back wheels trashed, more lessons learnt. It is a beautiful area around here, we are going to head in to Byron Bay today for a look around. Hope things are treating you all well.