On Sunday 20th September, the local Darling Downs chapter of the MX5 club took a run through Cambooya, Nobby, Heifer Creek, Fordsdale, Mt Whitestone, Ma Ma Creek, Upper & Lower Tenthill, Carpendale, Lillydale, Flagstone Creek and The Barn.
Morning Tea was at a Camping Ground near heifer Creek, and Lunch at the Barn.
The route was brilliant, thanks to through planning by Harry and Andrea, and the instructions precise and specific.
This journey would be pleasant in just about any breed of wheeled appliance, but in the MX5 it was amazing. There was an enormous variety of road surface and scenery, and the weather was perfect - in itself unusual, given the extremes we've been experiencing recently.
The morning tea stop, whilst providing a very comfortable environment for a pause in proceedings, also featured a notice board that outlined the story of the Theiss brothers, who hailed from around here. Just to emphasis the history of this family, and their ability to move vast amounts of soil and rock about the landscape, we drove through a cutting, a massive engineering feat, but probably not entirely necessary.
I developed the distinct impression that the brothers Theiss built this cutting simply because they could.
Our lunch was great, even if the green tinge lent to the food (via the transparent roof panels in the barn) had a few of us looking twice at each mouthful.
Lunch was enhanced by the presence of a mid-fifties Thunderbird outside the barn which offered about the same amount of cockpit space as an MX5 in a chassis about twice the length.
Now if Mazda had built one of these, it would have looked better the closer you got to it, rather than the other way round.
