Back in May, we enjoyed a day exploring. We'd already visited Quartz Mountain when we called into the tourist centre at Maryborough.The volunteer there gave us some more detailed directions to the Aboriginal Rock Wells, which we appreciated.
While chatting at the centre, I spotted an information sheet about an Aboriginal Shelter Tree but we would have needed to back-track almost to Quartz Mountain to see it, so elected to visit another day.
Our departure today was a lot later than usual and after some quick discussion we started driving to Maryborough, hoping to find at least some sunshine.
Along the way, we detoured slightly to see the magnificent "Maternity Tree" - it was just wonderful, well worth visiting!
From there we went to Dunolly, where the main street has a Welcome Stranger monument.
We had a very late sausage sizzle in a nearby park before heading further to the Moliagul site where the Welcome Stranger nugget was found. It was a day of monuments. A few metres from the public toilets at Moliagul is a monument to John Flynn, founder of the Royal Flying Doctor Service. We've had some experience of the Flying Doctor Service at Yowah, so we stopped to read the plaques at that monument also.
Because of our mid-afternoon start, it was late when we were heading home. We called in to the Goldfields Reservoir at Maryborough for hot beverages and snacks. The wind was strong (and icy) so I shifted the stove into a sheltered area beneath the table - and sat inside a similar compartment myself!
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