Sunday 23rd May

Maryborough 23rd May

Today we took off for the 38 klms drive south retracing our foot steps to visit Maryborough which we by passed on our way up.

This is a 1847 historic town with some great colonial buildings which have been well maintained over the years along with its history as once being a major immigration port into Australia. We had a good walk through the streets stopping to take few photos one of them being of Beatrice standing alongside a bronze statue of Mary Poppins outside the heritage listed bank building where Mary Travers was born in 1899 and wrote the story Mary Poppins.

Being a Sunday it was very quite with very few people around except for the few other grey nomads wandering around. Only a couple of restaurants and pubs open with the museum and other places of interest closing in the early afternoon.

However we walked down to the Marina and chatted to the caretaker who told us of some of the history of the river and about the now almost decayed wharf which has been abandoned by the government and the historical society as being too expensive to maintain.

Left for our travelling home to read the Sunday papers and a quiet restful afternoon sitting in the warm sun.