Leo waiting at Cooyar for opening time

Leo, grinning because he has just had a feed and managed to get at least one, loud and unexpected, bark in at a poor road worker on the first part of the trip up the Dividing Range from Nambour on the way to Oakey. Both dogs were hot and thirsty when we stopped at Cooyar for lunch. I especially liked the look of the Cooyar Pub in the background.

Oakey, okey dokey?

December 10th 2011
Arrived here at The Oakridge Motel & Caravan Park at about 2.45 pm. It was hot, about 32 degrees but felt even hotter because it was a dry heat, not the humid sticky heat of the coast. The breeze was hot, blowing across hot dry paddocks and the short, burr laden, grass crackled under our feet. The dogs were panting, and it was more difficult for them than us. Perspiration beaded our foreheads as w ... read more

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Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more

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