A cool, calm and beautiful day greeted us this morning. Rob had decided he would play golf today at the Kilcoy Gulf Club as there was a competition on tomorrow. This worked out well as I was happy to do a history walk of the town while he played golf. We met a couple of locals at the golf club who were very friendly and more than happy that Rob was going to play on the course, in fact they tried to convince him to play in the competition tomorrow. The course was quite hilly but very picturesque. I had fun walking the streets of Kilcoy. Many of the buildings had large, coloured boards complete with old photos on them, informing the reader of the history of the property and the businesses over the years. Of course being Queensland, many of the buildings are made from timber and had been moved several times over their life. I also visited the Kilcoy Historical Society Museum and nearby Arts and Crafts shop which were located adjacent to Yowie Park. What is a Yowie, I hear you ask. Apparently, the Aboriginal group who lived in the area had a spirit who roamed over the earth at night called the Yo-wi. In more recent Kilcoy history, in 1979 two local boys claimed to have witnessed a 3 metre tall Yowie while camping out. Anyway that is why Kilcoy had sculptures of Yowies (large brown fury creatures) everywhere and a park named Yowie Park. There was quite a lot of information about the supposed sighting of the Yowie in the museum, with old newspaper clippings etc. I was still on my walk when Rob called to say that he had finished his golf round I could come and collect him from the club. Returning to the van, we had a bit of a lazy afternoon. I couldn’t put the kayak in as the wind had sprung up so I completed a walk around the whole of this huge park which certainly got my steps up.
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