Day 23 - Hervey Bay

After such an awsome day yesterday the kids woke in fine form today! and therefore so were we. The amount of persuading and arguing that had to occur this morning for Krystian to do one hour of school work took us three hours, and by the end of it we were all fuming and flustered. This was no the best start to the day. We had planned to skip the opportunity for a day trip to Fraser Island and spend the day down at the free water park "Wet side". But because of the kids bad behaviour we ended up not going there either. So eventually we ended up driving to the next city called Maryborough. Charming little city (we had to do something for ourselves and be able to punish the kids at the same time). Maryborough has more to offer than first meets the eye. One of Queensland's oldest cities, with many traditional queenslander homes (many appear to need bulldozing) and interestingly the birth place of P L Travers, the author of the original Mary Poppins. I didn't even realise that Mary Poppins originated in Australia.

We had read about an amazing national trust museum (run by all volunteers) that is called Brennan & Geraghty's store museum. It is a general store that was established in 1890's till 1975. It contains the most amazing things i think i have ever seen. It contains many products that were sold in the store dating as far back as the 1890's. Truly, truly amazing! Worth the whole $13 it cost us to visit this place. This museum would be an amazing place for older people to reminisce on their childhood. Krystian had a fabulous time learning all about the past or the "olden days" as he likes to call it. He even had the cheek to tell us he had a great day and wasn't bored at all! LOL 

Seedlings from 1930

book keeping station (complete with receipts from 1890's)

Good old Arrnotts and Kellogs

The photos don't do the museum justice!  On the way home to the "tent" we headed back (just for one more time) to Hervey Bays Ice Creamery. This would have to be the BEST ICE CREAMERY IN AUSTRALIA!!!  YUM! YUM!!

Tomorrow sees us driving from Hervey Bay to Rockhampton.
Until then.............