September 20th
This morning I ran from Queensland all the way to NSW and
back again!! Only 10km given we are right on the border. There is a beautiful
walking path all along the Macintyre River and it was most pleasant running.
Some great trees and birdlife (Goondiwindi derives from an Aboriginal word
meaning “the resting place of birds”) and a lovely old bridge.
Leaving Goondiwindi, we continued heading east as the
scenery changed yet again to be even more lush and lovely. We passed through
the town of Warwick and end up in a café at Killarney eating cake. I managed to
fall over here in the middle of the footpath for no good apparent reason.
Grazed my leg and hand. All that travel in remote areas and walking in gorges
etc and I manage to have a spill back in civilisation on a flat path – go figure!
We had heard that from Killarney we could do a really pretty
drive on the Condamine Gorge River Track that takes in 14 river crossings –
sounded like our type of thing. Had to stop at the beginning to give the
Sherwoods a call to tell Will about the river crossings – always a favourite of
his.
This drive was really beautiful and scenic with high cliffs
on either side, magnificent trees and crystal clear crossings of the river. The
track was pretty busy with lots of cars going both ways so there was a bit of
stopping and manoeuvring to try to pass people. We stopped a few times along
the way. It was a bit cold to swim however. The trip took hardly any time at
all and before we knew it we were at the other end at a bit of a loss.
We then
looped back around towards Killarney again and stopped in at Queen Mary Falls
in the Main Range National Park – very busy area with lots of tourists but we
managed a nice walk down to some of the look outs and then stopped a bit further
down the road at another equally lovely but less crowded spot for lunch.
From the falls we passed through the township of Legume
(cool town name) and meandered our way through the ranges to end up in Kyogle. By
the time we arrived it was raining, wet and cold. Found some accommodation and
just hung out in our room for a while. When we felt hungry we drove into town
for dinner but found just about everything shut – even the pubs! Our choices
for dinner were the local Chinese and we didn't feel like Chinese two nights in
a row, or the local take away which was very interesting in its selection of
meals. We made do and had an early night as there really wasn't much else to
get up to.
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