For those of you who have not visited Toowoomba you must put it on your bucket list. We arrived in Toowoomba at the very best time of the year. Toowoomba is known as the city of flowers and it was all a bloom when we got there. We visited Queens Gardens where the Festival of Flowers is held every year. In preparation for this festival the park had all its garden beds in flower with pansies, ranunculis, tulips, snapdragons, violas and many more, all stragetically planted to create the amazing effects.

Our next garden visit was to the Laural Gardens where the theme was Under The Sea. All the beds had their flower arrangements depicting seahorses, sharks, dolphins, pirate ships. At this garden there is a raised platform that you can stand on to observe the wonderful effect of the various beds. There is some amazing hedge pruning. The best one,,,,i reckon,,,,,is one that has gaps in the hedge with little seats like a train and the front of the hedge has an engine just like Thomas the Tank. Check out the photos for this one.

We also went to Picnic Point where there is a restaurant that looks out over toward the coast and Brisbane. A magnificent view! It was at this park that we came across the very best playground (see above and also the photos).

While we were doing the Toowoomba visits we were camped at a place called Nobby, right along side the railway line. Across the road was the Nobby pub where there is a wonderful display of the works of Steele Rudd, who wrote the Dad and Dave stories. Rudd lived in Nobby along with Sister Kenny who worked tirelessly with victims of polio. Nobby is about 40 kilometres from Toowoomba and 37 kilometres to Warwick on the other side. We were fortunate to catch up with Penny, a close friend of my family and also a couple we met on our travels about 7 years ago.

Toowoomba was really great and we plan to return after I get back from Perth and travel out to Dalby and visit a huge old woolshed out that way.