Saturday November 6th - happy birthday to young Ben in Melksham, Wiltshire who was 6 years old today. We hope you had a great birthday. We had considered straying further inland but felt that our first choice, Carnarvon Gorge, was just too far to fit in with our on-going plans. Also everything I had read about it mentioned that the caravan park in the gorge was quite a few kilometers along a gravel road. Graham felt that, unlike Pie, poor old Sweetie and gravel roads wouldn’t mix too well so we headed towards Kingaroy, a drive of 226 kms. There were only a couple of small towns on the way and we stopped in the village of Bell. It was named after Sir Joshua Peter Bell who at that time owned Jimbour Station that we had
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