Antique Heaven

On our travels today, we stopped in Esk, initially to look at a clothes and gift store, but right next door was the old 'Staging Post Inn' (a pub) which is now an antique store.

I have never seen so many antiques in one building!

The old pub, which has so many rooms, I lost count, and every room is filled to the brim with antiques and collectables of every possible description.

Old carved timber chests of drawers, cabinets, kitchen dressers, dressing tables, desks, dining settings, coffee tables, side tables, lamp stands.

A hundred (if not more) different fine bone china table settings .. Royal Doulton and more.  A hundred (if not more) bone handled cutlery settings with carving knives and their velvet lined timber boxes.

Brass items of all descriptions, bowls, bells, decorative pieces, ornaments, animals and birds among other things.

Big old timber boat wheels lined one wall, 6 deep.

Stained glass windows and doors, lamps and ornaments.

Hundreds of crystal sets, vases, bowls, glasses, dresser sets.  Engraved silver teapots, brush and comb sets, engraved cutlery all shining in the light.

Stuffed long haired goat heads, complete with horns and mounted on plaques - I'm sure there was one in every room!

Uranium glass of all descriptions, locked in a timber cabinet with glass doors and backlit with a special light to show how it glows in the dark.

Pianos of all types .. beautiful old timber frames with ebony and ivory crazed keys.

Old framed paintings hung on the walls, some so darkened by age, you could barely see what the painting was and all different sizes.

Gold and silver jewellery with diamonds and rubies and semi-precious gems of all types.

Numerous church pews scattered throughout the building.

Boxes and boxes of old vinyl records.

A table full of commemorative plates and cups from every country and for every event, be it royal, religious or political.

Old doll perambulators.  A velvet cushioned, carved timber child's high chair that converted to a rocker.

There was even a complete stuffed cat sitting on top of one of the cupboards!

I believe that you could spend a full day in that building and still not see everything that they had on offer.  The list just goes on and on ... I wouldn't like to be the one doing 'stock take'!!

It was certainly an eye opener!

The weather was very gloomy for almost our entire trip today, with some heavy rain in parts and fine misty rain in others.

Our final destination for today, was the Sunny Coast, and Vegan Chickie was kind enough to research accommodation and found us a lovely two bedroom resort style unit for two nights.

It's the busiest time of the year for holiday makers on the Sunny Coast and with so little notice, she did very well to find it so quickly for us.

After we settled into our unit, we walked over to the Chicklet household late this afternoon, where the bare-chested chef fed us a delicious lamb casserole for dinner and I got to play dinosaurs with Chicklet.

I gave her a 200 piece bag of dinosaurs, but most of the pieces are trees and rocks .. not so many dinosaurs .. however, she loved it and we played for about 90 minutes before it was her bed time and we walked home to the unit.

We'll check out Eumundi markets tomorrow morning and then go visit Chicklet again in the afternoon.  Perhaps a walk through the National Park with our cameras later in the day would be nice.

Here's a photo from the first day of our road trip ...

Now it's time to sleep.

Nite all.