Well we sure had a great weekend touring around the Stanthorpe area and then exploring the carnival of flowers in Toowoomba. We really spent our time well and had some great adventures.
On Saturday, we started our day with a drive to the Storm King Dam (it was a large pond area just outside of town). The dam had a small boat launch and a little concrete dock. From the dam we drove to Girraween National Park which is notable for all the large boulders that seem to defy gravity in places, stacked up and leaning on trees! We drove into the park and went for a 2.5km walk to the underground river. This area was amazing – the colour of the rock and the sound of river was mesmerizing!! It was a great morning.
After our walk we drove out of the park and stopped at a little shop called Heavenly Chocolate!! You can guess what we bought there!! Yummy! After that stop, we were on the hunt for some lunch. That proved to be a bit of a challenge but we ended up in a little town called Ballandean where we had a nice lunch.
Our next stop was at the only winery of the day – Ballandean Estates Wines. We did a nice wine tasting at this winery – sampling 6 wines each. These wines were very nice and a few bottles came home with us!! We made one more stop that day at a soap shop and then headed home for a relaxed even with a campfire, wine, cheese, bread and of course, chocolate!!!
We were up early on Sunday and checked out of our lovely holiday house at 9am. We drove north east to Toowoomba – about a 1.45 hour drive – to see the carnival of flowers. This festival runs for the month of September and we saw lots of beautiful flowers.
After lunch in Toowoomba, we headed back to Brisbane which was about a 1.5 hour drive. Traffic was good and we got back to the apartment around 3pm. The weather was beautiful today and we spent the rest of the afternoon relaxing in the apartment. It was a great weekend and now we’ll make some plans for our upcoming week in Brisbane.
Crimson Kathryn and her crew 