19-21(22) November: 3 or 4 day trip to the Bunya Mountains

[John]

After all the fun of the Carnarvon trip, another Mini-Mini Raid is planned for Friday 19 to Sunday 21 or Monday 22 November:

• Crows Nest National Park is on the way (possible platypus sightings we missed at Carnarvon)
• RimFire, Clovelly & Mt Gowrie Wineries
• Exhilarating walks through ancient grass tree forests, Bunya pines and hidden mountain streams
• Your input of knowledge & special places to explore in this area
• You can either camp there, or find some other accommodation, and there are plenty of great walks

You can find a map here.

Please join in the conversation here if you're interested!

[John]

Here is the plan for the trip:

FRIDAY 19th NOVEMBER:

10.00 - 10.30am - meet at Kilcoy Bakery

From Brisbane - take the Mt. Nebo or Samford route via Mt. Glorious and Northbrook Parkway to Kilcoy.
From Sunshine Coast - choose your own route to the D'Aguilar Highway to Kilcoy.
From other Localities - please advise your chosen route to Kilcoy Bakery.

After our meet-up at the bakery for morning coffee, continue via D'Aguilar Highway to Nanango - then Burnett Highway to Clovelly Estate Winery on eastern shore of Lake Baranbah (Bjelke-Peterson Dam). Wine & cheese tasting at cellar door.

Overnight at Clovelly Winery (if small numbers) or continue to the Kingaroy area.
(Suggestion: Kingaroy Holiday Park which has luxury villas and camping)

SATURDAY 20th NOVEMBER:

Spend morning in Kingaroy area - "Tastes - South Burnett" for tasting local wines & cheeses.
Afternoon - drive to Bunya Mtns. to selected accommodation.
(Suggestions: Bunya Mountains Getaway ($80 per night) which is next to the Bunya National Parks Camping Grounds
Rice's Log Cabins ( $95 per night)
"Puzzles" for Saturday night dinner @ $39.50 each)

SUNDAY 21st NOVEMBER:

Sleep in - car maintenance - walks in National Park.
Overnight - same accommodation as Saturday night

MONDAY 22nd NOVEMBER:

Down mountain to Rimfire Winery - Maclagan

Lunch at Crows Nest National Park (byo lunch) stopping at historic Haden Store with its original canisters & shelving.

Head for home via Esk

[John]

2CV BUNYA MOUNTAINS ADVENTURE REPORT (as submitted by DicksyRouge)

FRIDAY 19th November 2010

8AM - Dianne and Brian are heading over Mount Glorious through dense cloud.
A preview to the 24 hour Cloud Forest we were to experience at the Bunya Mtns!
A true Abominable Bunya Mountains Adventure!!

3.45pm - Clovelly Winery with beautiful country cottage for our overnight rest - Moffatdale north of Kingaroy.
Owners of cars from L to R: Yvette & Bruce; Brian & Dianne; Anne & Grahame

4pm - Clovelly Estate wine tasting with cheese platter - complementary
From L to R: Dianne, Grahame, Kathy from the Winery, Anne, Bruce, Yvette

4.45pm - Happiness Is!!!!! from L to R:
Brian, Yvette, Bruce, Grahame, Anne

5pm - It was now time to settle in to our lovely Clovelly homestead
which we can highly recommend

For our Grand Dining Experience, we had a complementary 'pick-up van'
driving us into the Goomeri Hotel where we met up with well-know
Citroen owner from Nanango - David & his wife. Thanks to Grahame
for organising this meet-up! And it was a GRAND night!

SATURDAY 20th November 2010

10am - On the way to Kingaroy we passed the Memorambi STOP SHOP -
with everything from spices, incense sticks, ear candles and a large assortment of ICE CREAMS!!!
Some of us went straight for the LICORICE ice cream - delicious!!!
Brian & Bruce exiting from the green sliding door.

About midday: driving through Kingaroy's peanut country

A little later: And there's the 'Bunyas' ahead!

A little later still: Driving through the 'Bunyas' to our accommodation -
Ringtail Lodge

2pm - RINGTAIL LODGE - a spectacular 5 bedroom house with
open fireplace, amazing views and ssooo comfortable and affordable!!
Check it out on the web!
And look who's joined us!! Leigh & Lyn in their Charleston

4pm - Anne obviously has something that Grahame
doesn't have for those King Parrots! Males of course!!

SUNDAY 21st November 2010

9.30am - There were 5 in the car ........... & the middle one said - move over !!!!
Brian, Dianne & Grahame in the back ..... and the one-day visiting friends from Toowoomba ......

Cheryl and Ian in the front!!!! for the start of our 2hr walk from Burton's Well to Cherry Plain.

10am - Burton's Well in the Bunya Cloud Forest
Yvette & Bruce - ready to go!!
'Cloud Apparel' loaned from Citroen 2CV Crew!!

Also rearing to go is Lyn with her new rainbow hat a-top
coaxing the sun to pierce the thick cloud cover - maybe??!!

Can it be the Abominable Bunyip himself???!!!

Nothing stops the intrepid 2CV Adventurers!!!

10.15am - And we're off - on 'shank's pony' this time - with Ian in the lead -
for a morning stroll through the swirling clouds and blustering winds of the Bunya
Mountains

12.30pm - Back to Ringtail Lodge where Anne has kept the log fire going with zest (!!)
AND prepared a superb lunch of last night's left-overs - including bottles of wine.

4pm - NOW IS THE HOUR to start saying GOODBYE to Ian & Cheryl
plus Yvette & Bruce. Notice how the cloud persists sitting on the
mountain thus silhouetting the conical tops of the Bunya pines.

Our view from the decking of Ringtail Lodge

MONDAY 22nd November 2010

9.00am - now it's time for those remaining to leave this beautiful place
and head for home down the 'cloud mountain' into the sunshine
via Maclagan, Haden, Crows Nest and Esk.

A jolly good time was had by all ....

[Rolf Breyer]

Hello '08 Raiders Brian and Dianne,
Nice to see you getting out and about in your 2CV again, with (new chassis?) and good friends ducking around the place, thanks for sharing!
Cheers Rolf, Car #5 Raid'08