Hughenden

When we decided to leave Richmond, we looked up and made a call to the landline of the Hughenden Caravan Park. We got voicemail and duly left a message, not feeling great about getting a callback after our last efforts with the Richmond crew.

However, within about 15 minutes, a call came through from an unknown mobile.

Our mobile reception at that time was rubbish, and the call immediately dropped out, but ‘whoever’ tried to call back another two times – and each time the call failed…

We ended up texting the mobile number – on the off chance that it was the Hughenden Park – and it was!!
They actually texted back and forth with us numerous times throughout our patchy reception drive, and kindly booked us in for a few nights.

What legends!!

(We had used a different mobile to the one we used to call the Richmond Van Park, in case the RVP folks tried to call back)

We arrived at the Hughenden Van Park and they apologised that they had only one site left that would be big enough and appropriate for the dogs, and that it was unpowered – which we’d agreed to whilst texting – and also said that they would move us to another site in the park the next day.
No problem!

We settled in and – being tired – had a quiet night and went to bed fairly early.
We did notice however throughout the evening, that there were a lot – we mean a lot – of feral cats wandering all over the park and setting off all of the dogs not just in the Park, but in the surrounding houses.

The following day seeing as we were moving anyways, we went for a drive around town, and also drove the circuit of the fairly new (2019) Hughenden Recreation Lake, which is a great resource for the Community and an initiative that the town is rightly proud of.

The Robert Gray Memorial Park / Flinders River Park and Walkway across the bridge from town is a beautiful and at times somewhat somber, piece of beauty and memorials, that runs along the riverbank.

It has an amazing array of huge rocks which hold memorial plaques for the early pioneers and other characters and larrikins of the district.

Families and friends were – and are still – invited to plant a tree and have a plaque placed in memory of their loved-ones.

We noted that some are dating back to the 1800s, and we didn’t get to read them all!

There are wonderful Sculptures at the Park and throughout the town, as well as a huge Windmill, some great Tank Art, of course the Info Centre, excellent walking trails, and the Spar grocery store is worth a visit for its vast range of – well, everything!

It’s a bloody great lil place!

And for those that are playing along at home and want to know?
Over a week later, and we never everrrr heard back from the Richmond Van Park folks.
Pretty bloody poor form!

Until next time – happy travels, and make the moments matter.

multi-media sculpture

Shell Sculpture

Info graphics around the town

some of the local station brands

Street Art

FJ Holden Cafe – sadly it wasn’t open when we were there

moonda nurra is a revered rainbow serpent and the spiritual essence of the Yirendali people, who believe she is the creator of life, death, the spiritual world.