Needless to say, we were wide awake and ready to leave much earlier than originally planned.
Our idea was to drive until we found a nice looking cafe for breakfast, but we were in Warwick before ANY kind of cafe came into view!
The Cherry Tree was our cafe of choice.
It was right across the road from the park where the local markets were being held and where the crowd was building for the Remembrance Day Ceremony.
We did a quick lap around the markets, but there was nothing different there from any other market ... we are pretty selective about the stalls we support and are not impressed by markets full of plastic rubbish from China.
The cafe was incredibly busy but I found them to be very efficient, even though the young girl accidentally overcharged BGWLBH by a few dollars and THEN brought her a big breakfast instead of plain old bacon and eggs!
I ordered bacon, grilled asparagus and avocado with a green smoothie and a latte. Delicious and very filling!
On our way out of the cafe, it was almost 11am, so we stopped on the fringe of the crowd that had gathered and respectfully observed the minute of silence before climbing in the car and figuring out which way to exit Warwick.
We began to take a side road to Killarney and Queen Mary Falls, but we've seen Killarney before and we weren't sure how far we would have to walk to find the Falls. We decided that the round trip would add at least 90 minutes to our day, so we reluctantly turned back to highway that would lead us to Tenterfield.
The road entering Tenterfield ...
I downloaded the song 'Tenterfield Saddler' and as we drove through the very quiet main street of Tenterfield, played the song through my JBL Flip 3 portable speaker at full volume (like I'm sure THAT'S never been done before!), which I held out the window!
Our next stop was Ballendean where we spotted a fruit van selling cherries and apricots. While we were purchasing our punnets of cherries, a man pulled up and walked across the parking area wearing a kilt! We asked him politely if he would mind having his photo taken with BGWLBH ...
... he was lovely!
The other highlight of Ballendean is the Triceratops (aka Fruitasaurus) on the left hand side of the road which tried to eat our travelling companion, Wilbur Herbert.
We were pretty excited to find Wallangarra, which is a tiny border town between QLD and NSW.
There was a little craft cottage which we simply had to stop at. I bought a padded scissor holder and a yellow kitchen hand towel.
Across the road from there, was another little gift shop that sold an array of different and interesting bits and pieces. We walked in on the shop owner being 'read' by a passerby who happened to be a clairvoyant. The shop owner was a little emotional at that point and after the clairvoyant left, she talked to us about the experience.
She also told us about how much she loves her little shop, so we shared our love like two mothers comparing babies as I told her about my shop too.
She was very nice, as was her shop, but her coffee was pretty ordinary and we ended up tipping it out at our next stop.
Our second last stop for the day was a little town called Deepwater. We stopped to have Wilbur Herbert's photo taken with the menagerie of concrete animals standing on the footpath outside of the shop ...
Tonight, we are staying in The Acacia Motel in Armidale. It's a nice little motel in the back streets so there is no street noise and no shops nearby and no top floor. Fingers crossed that we get a peaceful morning sleep!
I think I need to sleep right now. It's been a big day.
Nite all.
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