Day 21 - Paluma and tranquility

We had the windscreen replaced in the morning by a mobile van who came to the house. This made the exercise very easy.  In the afternoon, just after leaving Peter and Helen, we received a stone chip right in the middle of the screen. It must have been the shortest time between repair and damage on record!

We headed off to Peter and Helen’s house in the village of Paluma. The road to Paluma wound slowly up through steep wooded slopes. The township was delightful and so quiet, 3000 feet above sea level. It was first settled when tin was discovered in the region about 1875. The village was used as a holiday area from the 1930’s with an interruption for WWII when the area was a centre for jungle training and as a radar station.

The house has a bit of history. We so enjoyed staying in the house and it was a luxury to cook our supper on a stove in a kitchen and watch the news on TV!

The tennis court had a surface that would help to even the odds in a game against Roger Federer or Rafael Nadal.