Apple and Grape Festival Holiday - Feb/March 2024 - Day 10

  Day 10:  Monday 4/3/24 - Stanthorpe - Tenterfield

Today is departure day for everyone to head home from Stanthorpe except for us.  We still have a week of holidays to enjoy since the boys got our awning fixed.  Yippee!

We had to wait for everyone to leave before we could hitch up.  Everyone's going to Sutton's for Apple Pie, we'll pass as we are not fans of Sutton's and it's the wrong way for us anyway.  For us, we are heading to Tenterfield for the night.  We'll stay in the caravan park overnight because the caravan batteries are now down to 6% after 5 Days without power and the solar panels don't seem to be putting enough back into the battery.  Something to look into when we get home.

Didn't take long to get to Tenterfield, we went straight to the Tenterfield Lodge and Caravan Park, which is across the road from the Railway Museum and the reason we stopped here overnight again.  Booked into a drive through powered site and got set up, air con on again.  Unfortunately the reason for stopping here to look at the Railway Museum again is not going to happen.  Sadly the museum was broken into on Friday night and vandalised, so is closed for repairs for the next week.  Very sad this has happened, what is the world coming to.

Tenterfield Lodge and Caravan Park > $42.00/night for 2 people. Power/Water, lovely camp kitchen, communal campfire, cabins, Pet Friendly.  A nice small park.

Decided we'd try the Tenterfield Tavern for lunch in air conditioning.  Quite a nice pub, yummy food, large portion and friendly staff.  Finished lunch and went for a drive around town and found ourselves following Tourist Route 9, which took us up to Mt Mackenzie Lookout.  Absolutely stunning scenery, with massive boulders and hills.  Saw cows, sheep, goats and donkeys roaming freely.  The lookout was a complete surprise, a marvellous view.

Tourist Route 9

Police Station and Goal

Loo at the Lookout

Mt Mackenzie Lookout

Followed the loop road back into town which took way less time LOL.  Back to camp to do some washing and then go for a walk around the caravan park.  Amenities are old but clean and they have gone to the effort of putting little touches such as scented reeds and beautiful smelling hand soap in there and also the laundry.  Big timber platforms you put down in the shower cubical so you're not standing on the wet floor to get dressed.

Camp Kitchen

Well equipped Camp Kitchen

Communal Fire Pit

Office

Craig decided we'd cook dinner in the camp kitchen tonight and watch the news, so we gathered up our supplies and wandered over.  The camp kitchen has everything you'd need and was clean and tidy, which is how we left it when done.  After our big lunch today we didn't need much dinner, so had hot dogs with onion, bacon, cheese, mustard and homemade butcher hot dog sausages from our local butcher.

Met our neighbours next door that arrived late in the afternoon in a massive Lotus caravan towed by a GMC RAM type vehicle.  Craig just looked at me and said "no" LOL!  We've been an hour behind all day since we crossed the border into NSW, completely forgot about daylight savings!!

The park is a very pleasant place to stay.