Saturday 14 September 2019 - Beaudesert

Another cold night and cool start to the morning with an extra layer of clothing required until after breakfast.  An easy drive through the ranges. Wasn't particularly windy just up and down.   At one point Miss Google gave us a choice of two ways so we selected the secondary road rather than the highway.  The road was good and the traffic very light, until we came to an intersection which we had to cross.  Only trouble was it was the highway to Brisbane and had four lanes of traffic.  There was no way we would get a big enough break in the traffic to get across all four lanes.  There was an area between the two north bound and two south bound lanes but only enough room for a car to wait not a car and caravan.  So we decided to turn left and it took awhile for enough of a break in the traffic on the two north bound lanes to do that.  We travelled up to the first exit off the highway and there was an overpass for us to use to cross the highway and we continued on.   We arrived at Beaudesert but accidently drove past the driveway to the caravan park.  We drove up the road until we were able to turn around.  Coming back we noticed the showgrounds which had signs up advertising the Swap Meet which is on tomorrow.  We thought it had been lucky we had rang and booked a site at the Caravan Park earlier in the week as it will be full with the Swap Meet.  We arrived at the Caravan Park to find that it backs onto the showgrounds and there is just a wire fence between us and the Swap Meet.  Set up behind us is a food stall with a hired cool room unit that is running.  Hope by night time we become so accustomed to the hum of it that we will be able to sleep through it!   They must have opened the gates to the Swap Meet at 12 for people to set up as there has been a steady stream of traffic and banging with people setting up their stalls.  It also looks like they can camp there tonight as there are a few caravans and tents as well.  

Views from the back of our van of the people starting to set up for the Swap Meet.

We drove down the street and had a look around but there was nothing that took our fancy.  Returned to the park and chatted to our neighbours who used to own a Caravan Park at Mission Beach.  They said it was very busy and the gentleman told us that he wasn't good with the public so he was left to do maintenance around the park and have little or no contact with the public, which was left to his wife.   We told him that he reminded us of someone we knew who was better at doing the odd jobs around the place than dealing with customer queries.   Not naming names here but you will know if it is you!