13 – 15 October 2024
We left Chinchilla and headed towards a birding spot near
Jondaryan. We stopped in Dalby to do some shopping and then continued on to a
back road just out of Jondaryan. We knew we had the right spot when we saw
other vehicles parked on the road nearby. Mick spent a fair while looking and
then we drove back into Jondaryan for lunch.
We had booked our campsite at Hardings Paddock, and we
weren’t too far away so we returned to the birding spot after lunch for another
go. From there it was on to the motorway towards Toowoomba and then Ipswich.
Fortunately we didn’t have to go right into Ipswich and, because it was a
Sunday afternoon, the traffic wasn’t too
bad. We turned off the motorway and travelled on to Hardings Paddock.
This campground is managed by the Ipswich Council and is
accessed via a locked gate. Bookings are essential, and the gate code is
provided with the booking confirmation. There are toilets and picnic facilities
in the campground as well as in the adjacent extensive day use area. There are
a number of walking tracks as well as a couple of small dams.
We stayed for two nights and Mick enjoyed the birding
opportunities. On the morning we were leaving, another of Mick’s birding
friends who lives nearby, came down for a visit and they went out for a walk
together while I did some packing up.
We left Hardings Paddock, another great spot, and started
the journey to Warwick which would be a pit-stop rather than a destination.
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