Australian Camp Oven Festival - Millmeran 2004 - 29 September to 10 October 2004
This page: Gold Coast to Millmeran [29-30 September 2004]
We've been parked for almost seven months and can't believe how time has just passed by. With the renovations to our unit nearing completion
and a new side gate (to get the Supertramp in and out) it was about time to hit the wallaby. We had been planning a short trip to the Australian Camp Oven Festival with our
friends Petra and Lawrence Pearce for over twelve months and would rendeveous at their place in the Lockyer Valley. From our new base here in Labrador (Gold Coast) it's is
a short 2 hour trip to Brightview. With the rig parked out front and ready to roll we have lunch at home and get away at 1300 hours. Our first night
out we stay at Brightview, meal and drinks on the back deck.
The Australian Camp Oven Festival is held at Millmerran on the Darling Downs every 2 years. Was originally the Millmerrran Camp Oven Festival and has been growing in popularity since it's beginnings. This year's
festival is the first Australian Camp Oven Festival, the renaming happening as a result of the festival now being a part of the Queensland Events calender. The festival runs over the weekend
of 2 - 3 October 2004 and is held at the Millmerran show grounds. Camp sites are aplenty with some powered sites available. Book early for powered sites.
30 Sept 2004
We're away at 1000 hours from Brightview we take the Warrigo highway to Toowoomba (up the range once more) with the new engine pulling better each time.
Millmerran is not all that far so we detour for lunch at Rudd's Pub at Nobby ( famous for it's pork chops). Then backtrack to the highway through Pittworth and onto Millmerran.
There is Free camping at Nobby. Sites just behind the pic
of the Supertramp. Pay $2.00 per night at the pub for power.
After traveling through Pittsworth just as you come back onto the main route to Millmerran from Toowoomba is Moore Trailers factory. Stop and take a look at the fantastic
mural painted along their factory wall facing the highway. The shots here are just 3 out of the ten I took to get it all in. The beginning shows the
early bullock and horse trailers made by the company and goes on to the present day of heavy semi trailers and B double rigs. Very impressive.
After a pleasant day touring the Darling Downs we are finally at Millmerran.............
This page: Gold Coast to Millmeran [29-30 September 2004]
