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2 Sept 2006, Saturday - Spring is here! (and so are the flowers, pollen and hay fever! haha)

We once again troupe out in cars to Ipswich / Boonah for our Lavendar Farm visit.









9 adults, 1 baby in 4 cars, arrived at our first stop, The Workshops Rail Museum. We had originally allocated 1 hour for this museum, but we didn't expect the museum to be THIS big! It covers a lot of grounds and we are not prepared to pay AU$16.50 per person to speed past everything in the speed of light. Furthermore, they have an upcoming exhibition on 29 Oct where one could actually travel by steam train from Brisbane city to the museum in Ipswich! The only flip side is that we each got to fork out about AU$50 for that ride!





















Giving the museum a miss, we proceeded to The Carmel Lookout. Our first reaction was, "Is this it?".... There wasn't much to see ....





















After some munching, we drove to Mount French for another lookout. The view here is much much better than the previous one... After some photo taking, we "pigged out" at the picnic facilities provided.









And then, we finally arrived at the Kooroomba Lavendar Farm. Out came the cameras again, taking pictures from all angles to capture our visit so that we could look back in the future and say "I was there!"... We had some interesting deserts. Lavendar flavoured tea and ice cream... Is it nice? Well... let's say it's not to everyone's liking.... but it is something different...and you won't get to eat it anywhere else...





















Our last stop - Lake Moogerah. Beautiful scenery with the sun set as its background. The only spoil sport was the heaps and heaps of cow dung all over the place... So we were all walking with our eyes fixed to the ground, avoiding any "booby traps" laid on the ground by the cows. (Moo-moos revenge on humans?)






It was said that behind the range of mountains is the state of New South Wales. This kinda reminds me of the movie "The Sound of Music" where they had to "climb every mountain" to get to their freedom from the Nazis... haha..










薰衣草之行

春天来了！

我们一伙人（总控有9个大人，1 个婴孩），驾驶着4辆车，开始我们一天的薰衣草之行。

首先，我们驾驶了一个钟头的车程到达了The Workshops Rail Museum。 这是一个以火车为主体的博物馆。可是，我们发觉这并非一个小型博物馆。原本我们只设定华一个小时的时间来游玩这个博物馆。可是，见到那地图，我们警觉到那是一个不可能的任务。况且，在10月29日 它们会有一个大型的展会，可让观光客乘搭古老的水汽火车一路从布里斯班城市中心到博物馆。但是，车费和入门费价值不菲，大约每人澳币50元。所以，我们放弃观赏此馆，等到10月底在来。

之后，我们到达了Mt Carmel Lookout 。 原以为我们能够看见美丽的景点，但是当我们到达目的地的时候，我们都很失落的感叹了一生“怎么才这样儿以啊？”

吃了些小吃，我们就赶路到Mt. French。应为这座山来得比上一个根高，跟偏僻，它的景色郊动人多了。放眼一看，似乎可以看到那无止境的澳土。拍了无数张照片，我们那饥饿的肚子，推动着我们的身躯往车子后箱走，取出我们各所准备的食物。

野餐一番后，我们就开往主角薰衣草农场 - Kooroomba Lavender Farm。我们再次的那起各自的照相机，把所看到的景点都捕抓起来，好让我们以后能够随时从温。我们也尝试了薰衣草口味的茶和冰淇淋。冰淇淋好吃吗？它有一种很特别的口味，但是不是每个人都能够接受。

我们最后的地点是Lake Moogerah。它其实是一个水坝。太阳西落的景色实在绝！可是，唯一杀景的是那遍地一堆堆得牛粪！导致我们都“抬不起头”的走。

我们也听说那排山后面就是新南威尔斯州。

玩了一整天之后，我们也开始我们回家的路途。路程遥远，为了娱乐大家，益荣与姚生大唱起张学友的“真情流露”。怎么娱乐全部团员在各自的车呢？他们两位对着对讲机大唱。对这场急性表演，其他队友可是哭笑不得！

吃完晚饭之后，我们的一日之行也开心，圆满的结束了。