09/08/2021 Kilkiven to Gympie

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 I had a work meeting at 3:15 and the school bus was booked to pick us up outside Kilkiven School at 4pm. The rest of the day was ours to spend as we wished in Kilkiven.

There's not a lot of things to do in Kilkiven. The museum is shut on Mondays. The library opens from 9-12. There's a pub and a cafe. And it was raining.

Rain showers fell all night, but had the decency to pause so we could have our breakfast in anaemic sunshine. Jill and Jeff, from the caravan opposite, even boiled the kettle for us. Win!

We hung out in the library until it closed. Then we hung out in the park for lunch. Then we had second lunch at the pub. This was vastly entertaining - the pub is brimming with artworks of all levels of talent or lack thereof and all sorts of mementos. Fake crocodile head? Framed Fred Brophy memorabilia? Multiple small fat dogs?  Kilkiven pub can deliver on all of these and simultaneously to boot.

I even found Ned Kelly's armour lurking between the tea/coffee making facilities and the pokie machines.

Shades of grandma's parlour in the Kilkiven pub lounge.

At 4:20 Jan arrived with the school bus and before you could say lickety-split we were roaring along the highway and thanking our lucky stars that we weren't pedalling on the non-existent shoulder while trying to dodge the traffic. 

We don't make a fuss
We're happy to bus
When we think the road is too busy.
We're happy to sit
And rest for a bit
As past all the roadworks we whizzy.

Our driver with smiles
Went for extra miles
And unloaded us right at our door.
If you need to know
The best way to go
Polleys Coaches will help you, and more!

Dropped just around the corner from the door actually, by jolly driver Jan.

Downtown Gympie, raging on a Monday night.

Home for the night: Royal Hotel, Gympie.



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