Booloumba Creek, Kenilworth

Today we said hi to another friend - my former boss from the food truck. He suggested that Timo and I go to Kenilworth to check out a beautiful creek near a campsite.

We eventually decided to follow his advice and went looking for said creek just as reception vanished and the road decided to become bumpy and flooded — not with puddles, but with actual ponds, some of them more than knee-deep. Well… our little Suzuki Swift was clearly out of its depth here (pun intended).

So we left it there and continued on foot. We had barely crossed the first “puddle” when an Aussie guy offered to take us a bit further in his 4WD (probably a LandCruiser — honestly, those cars feel like a bit of a rite of passage for Australians, I reckon).

He dropped us off, and we were presented with a few paths to choose from — one of them leading to Campsite 3, which was where we wanted to go. Enter Timo, confidently pointing in the opposite direction. “Let’s just go that way!”

And “that way” we went. We did eventually reach the creek — I’ll give him that. We were also getting dangerously close to losing daylight and had to move on to make it back to Brisbane. But all in all: lovely nature around Kenilworth, and the town itself offered some excellent pies and surprisingly good artwork.Read more