9-18 deg C, fine and mostly sunny with a very lazy breeze
After our respective walks and breakfast, we all set off in our truck for another day of playing tourist. First up was the town of Herberton. After a short wander up and down the main drag, first order of business was mornos. There were three options in town and we thought we had picked the best of them. Despite a sign telling us they had four different types of muffins, they had only apple ones. No problems we all said and ordered our coffees with muffins (G&Y kindly paid for ours again). We then sat down thinking it would only be a few minutes. Well after about 10 minutes we got up to see what the hold-up was and they hadn’t even started making the coffee – they were too busy serving the local tradies who came in after us and other shoppers (the café was part of the local supermarket). Wendy heard the two ladies talking to each other about the fact we had not yet been served and one of them replied with words to the effect of “well I don’t care, do you?”. We should have asked for our money back straight away and voted with our feet as just down the road was a really nice coffee shop with fresh cakes, muffins and slices. When they did eventually come, both the muffins and coffee were good, but the service was dismal. The place is called “The Pelican Pick Café”, so if you are ever in Herberton, and want to frequent the place, ask how long it will take to be served, before you pay.
After our coffee we took a walk to the Herberton Mining Centre, which was part of the Tourist Information Centre. Entry was by donation as all the guides are volunteers. It was quite interesting but much like any other mining centre, except this one was about tin and a bit of copper.
Back into Atherton for lunch, but first we decided to stop at the Chinatown Museum, Gallery and Temple. The Temple is the only timber and iron temple remaining in Australia and houses elaborate carvings from Southern China. A cyclone in 1956 destroyed it and many of the artefacts not destroyed were requisitioned by locals and used for various things until they heard of the restoration and “donated” them back.
We were so hungry after that so we headed for the first thing we found – Maccas! We each had a chicken wrap medium meal deal and they have never tasted better. It was then onto BIGW for a tracky jumper for Wendy and pants for Gunther. Whilst we went grocery shopping, G&Y browsed BIGW and booked us each a powered site at Undara.
Back to
the vans for a very short rest before prettying ourselves for the outing to the
Yungaburra Pub – our first meal back there since the folks sold it in early
2006. We all shouted Dave and Noy in thanks for their hospitality over the last
few days. All the meals were jolly good and despite being quite busy, the staff
were very efficient. Wendy had a sneak peek into the kitchen and saw that the
big old square thing in the middle was still there being used for much the same
purpose as we used it. After dinner we went back to Dave and Noy’s for a
post-dinner drink and one last farewell.
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