Mount Perry - 11th to 13th February

We booked into the Mount Perry CP for two nights but for an odd reason we stayed on for the third night. Not that we minded so much, Mount Perry is a scenic town. We had to extend our mail redirection, so I went to the PO at 2:30pm on the Friday and found that it closed at 2:00pm! It was no use leaving on the Saturday as I could not get to any other PO until Monday anyway, hence the extra day. We had an elevated camp site in the CP and could look out over the main street and see the 750 m high Mount Perry keeping an eye on the town. Much of the time Mount Perry was directing dark and menacing clouds, some of these clouds dropped some rain on us.

Mount Perry the town nestles in the valley looked over by 750m Mount Perry.

If you are coming into town from Monto or Gayndah you will be welcomed by this friendly chappie in the Museum.

Some of the relics in the Museum grounds.

Many of the old commercial buildings have long disappeared, this one will probably suffer the same fate.

The still operating and very busy General Store.

The Post Office (the one that closes at 2:00pm) and the Hotel.

Lodgings and a Restaurant in the Federal Inn.

The out-house behind the Federal Inn. I'm sure it's purely nostalgic.

Along the main street on the creek side is a large park area. Part of this park hosts a range of exercise machines, we managed a brief work out on each of them.

Jude and Lizzie heading over the walk bridge.

About 17 km towards Gin Gin is a turn off to the Boolboonda Tunnel, you can read all the details of this tunnel here.

It is amazing what men with picks and shovels can achieve. While driving through we disturbed many small bats.