Plans for next trip away

June/July school holidays coming up so we decided to take a short break away with Ninasafiri.

Didn't want to travel too far away and wanted to stay in one place, seeing as we have decided to only be away for a week from Tuesday 28th June to Tuesday 5 July.

Decided on Kilkivan with the aim of riding some of the Kilkivan to Kingaroy Rail trail. 
So next did a check on Hipcamp to see if there were any suitable places to set up for a week.
Came across one called Wooded Valley at 347 Running Creek Road, Kilkivan, QLD 4600, that seemed to tick all the boxes, so have booked there.

It requires campers to be self contained and it looks like we will have an area all to ourselves.
It is close to the Rail trail start, but also has walks from there and plenty of surrounding bushland, as clarified by a communication with the property owners....

Hi Linda we have 6km of walking paths and there are a few other nice walks you can do here off our property. The rail trail is an easy 4.7km ride on a sealed road from us. Kind regards Mark and Ina

After booking have done a bit of research on the rail trail and have downloaded information on it. Seeing as it is 88 kms in length we have decided that we would need to split up riding on the trail into sections and only ride some of it at different times on different days, We have invited others to join us if they would like so we haven't yet made any decisions on when we will do any of the riding. 

The link https://www.railtrails.org.au/trails/kilkivan-kingaroy-rail-trail/ contains a lot of information about the trail and the area, including a map and a breakdown of the individual sections.
The brochure Kilkivan_to_Kingaroy_Rail_Trail_Brochure.pdf also provides information about places along the way so we certainly have enough resources at hand.

There are also plenty of areas nearby that we can explore both driving to and walking, 


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