AAOK Jandowae Accommodation Park - Jandowea

August  5th - 6th

Miles to Jandowae  (110Km) 
Part 9 of our 2021Adventure

Hervey Bay to Jandowae 1703km
Accommodation AAOK Jandowar Accommodation Park
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Cost: $3200 per night Powered Slab site
Camp Fires:  Allowed
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Travelling with: Fiona Ellis

The accommodation

AAOK Jandowae Accommodation Park provides quality accommodation to the traveling public and caravanners for long or short term stays. It also provides budget accommodation for tourists traveling through the Golden West.  There is a shady country caravan park with powered sites and cabins. Our onsite commercial kitchen provides meal packages to the highest standard, including, hot breakfast, takeaway lunch and buffet dinners. An historic C17 steam train located on site is a reminder of Jandowae's past.

Our 2nd last stop of our 3 weeks trip, just a quick overnight at Jandowae. We were hoping to go and see the Jandowae Wool shed, but it was closed, so then we went to check out Jimbour House, but it was closed because they were making a movie there, called ????.

So we went for a wander about the old town, it was sad to see so many shops boarded up, and pubs not opened, at 1:00pm in the afternoon, and when you read the stories of what these towns used to be like.

We went for a drive to visit the Dingo Fence, which is the second-longest man-made structure in the world. This fence was built in the 1880s to prevent dingos from entering the fertile southeast part of the continent and to safeguard the sheep flocks of southern Queensland. It spans a distance of 5,614 kilometers and passes through Queensland, New South Wales, and South Australia. In the Western Downs region, the northern end of the Dingo Fence starts between Jandowae and Jimbour and extends through thousands of kilometers of arid land, ending to the west of Eyre Peninsula on the cliffs of the Nullarbor Plains and above the Great Australian Bight.

We then went to see if we could catch a glimpse of Jimbour House, another chance to drive on a dirt road. We were all smiling, but when we arrived, we saw signs saying it was closed due to filming.

Afterward, we headed back to our campsite at Cap where we could start a fire. We did some log chopping, campfire cooking, and sat around the fire to keep warm since the temperature had dropped to 2 degrees that night.