Toowoomba

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Saturday 16th July
Woke up this morning to rain, it had lightly rained all night and the hard ground around the caravan had turned into a mud patch. Very messy packing up but headed off to Toowoomba. "Ken" our navigator took us right through the middle of a very busy town centre of Toowoomba but we found the Top Tourist Caravan Park and booked in for a week. ($167.40 for a week with TT disc). The park looks very nice and neat and right on a main road into town.
Sunday 17th July
Went for a walk up the road and found nearly any food outlets you could wish for with in walking distance as well as a large shopping centre (K Mart) and even an Aldi store.
There is a lovey creek and park at the rear of the caravan park with excercise equipment along the pathway - we should be very fit by the time we leave here if we make sure we use the equipment.
Monday 18th July.
Geoff turned "40" today - we had a nice chat with him.
Visited some tourist places today - was very impressed with Picnic Point with the magnificent views over the Lockyer Valley - and the very old pine trees at the park.
Amazed at the 150ft flag pole (45.72mtrs) with the Australian flag (12mtrs x 6mtrs) which was erected to celebrate Queenslands 150 yr celebration in 2009.
Followed the tourist drive and checked out the Waterbird Habitat with lots of ducks. Did a drive around some of the beautiful homes over looking the Lockyer Valley, just amazing. There seems to be a lot of money around Toowoomba if the quality of homes are anything to go on.

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