Socialising here and another two visits to the Maryborough RV Village

Last year when we were here, we met a few people at the bridge club who live at the RV Village just out of Maryborough.  We even spent a night then and looked around.

This time, Jan invited us to dinner. We had a lovely dinner with her and six others who all either live at or are visiting the village.

Jan's wonderful trifle and apple cake for dessert.

Jan's house, no 160 in the complex.  She has a lovely wrap around verendah. All the houses have verandahs but some are bigger and some smaller.






This village is somewhat like the one we had lived in at Newcastle but the difference is that these houses all come with an extra large garage, both in height and width to accommodate a motor home and/or a caravan plus car.

We stayed the night and slept in Winnie our van.  Jan's husband passed away and she has sold her RV but she has the space to allow visitors with RVs to come and stay.  The garage has water and electricity supply, all set up for RVs.

The concept is an American one and so far it is the only such village in Australia.  We met another couple from Canberra who live here half the year and leave their RV here over the summer when they are in Canberra.

At the end of our house sit at Beaver Rock Rd, Eric, another bridge player from the RV village, invited us to stay as his guest for a few days.  Here we are enjoying breakfast on his terrace.

Andrew walking with Maxi around the village.

Some of the houses have lake views.

We were delighted to be invited for another visit as the concept of such a communal village is still attractive, especially one where one can easily garage and protect one's RV and also leave if there during the summer months when, as in our case, one lives elsewhere.  But having tried it in Newcastle, we are reluctant to venture again.  But it is nice to be tempted.

After leaving the RV Village I stopped to have a massage at an out of the way location where Andrew took some photos of the livestock while waiting for me.

A nice looking black faced sheep.

A llama.  These are such good looking animals with the most beautiful eyelashes that many women would be proud to possess.  You can't unfortunately see these from so far away but they are very striking looking because of that feature.

Next stop - Maryborough

We are doing some house sitting this year and we secured a spot at Beaver Rock which is 10 kms out of the town of Maryborough,  We have visited the town several times in our various trips in the past and always enjoyed being here.  There is a decent bridge club and the town is very RV friendly with free parking for two days in the car park in the middle of the town.  There is a Thursday weekly market which is popular with locals and tourists alike.  

The house is set on a four acre block of land backing right onto sugar cane fields.  The owners have refurbished the very dirty and run down house and they have planted beautiful shrubberies all over the grassy fields so it feels as if we are in a park.

The house is a nice comfortable one with a lovely verandah out the front where we love sitting in the afternoons. Overlooking the lovingly planted shrubbery in front is a delight. 

We are here for about three weeks while the owners try their hand at caravaning. It is very peaceful and relaxing out here and Maxi loves it too.  The large property has no fences but she stays close by and only wanders around a little bit. 

Another little planted area of bushes among the field of grass on the property.  All in need of watering when there is no rain. 

Andrew did a little mowing on the machine.  

Setting off again in 2019

Our first stop in our winter northward travels has been Bribie Island.  Friends have an apartment here and we stayed a fortnight. We took Diana and Warwick to the Glasshouse Mountains and to the interesting towns in the hinterland, and also to Noosa on the coast.

We visited the wetland area near the apartment, played some bridge and I enrolled in some excellent aqua-aerobic classes.