Bye-Bye bright lights.

Thursday through Saturday was spent lazing in the sun, combined with a walk through the National Park, around the Burleigh headland into Burleigh Heads. This walk is absolutely fabulous as the pathway follows the ocean, providing some magnificent views. Once in Burleigh Heads, the compulsory breakfast overlooking the beach was in order. We managed to get in some more fishing in between a visit to the South Tweed Heads shopping plaza.
Saturday afternoon was spent packing up the boat and misc. gear in preparation for our departure Sunday morning. We watched the AFL Tribute match between a Victorian team and the "Dream Team", comprised of the best of the rest.
The Vics won, with Brendan Fevola kicking six goals and winning the E.J.Whitten medal and the commentators best on the ground. It was a very good match.
Sunday morning we departed Tallebudgera and followed the Pacific Motorway north to the Ipswich toll road. From there we travelled west via Ipswich to Toowoomba, continuing on the Warrego Hwy. via Dalby to a great camp site about nine kilometres east of Chinchilla. This camp spot is on the banks of the Condamine River, about fourten km's off the Warrego Hwy. Arrived here around 4pm after travelling 360km today. Time to bait up the shrimp trap and the yabbie net. Local fisherman who came into the boat ramp at our camp spot gave us a nice yellow belly and some dry dog food which they claim is the best bait for the shrimp trap. Hopefully we will get some shrimp bait and then a big yellow belly. Gail tells me that the home of the yellow belly is in fact "The Brigalow", which by coincidence is a small town just down the road from where we are at present.
Despite the fact that we thought we were stopping in a nice quiet spot tonight, the deafening sound of dozens of cockatoos, kookaburras and misc. other noisy birds is almost distracting us from our "nibbles and drinks" time.
Kevin and Gail on "The Darlin Downs".