Millmerran Camp Oven Festival

Hi have been sitting here for ages trying to decide how best to write my blog about our visit to Millmerran. We had a very enjoyable week here which climaxed with a jam packed and very enjoyable weekend at the Camp Oven Festival.

After much thought have decided to just do it with headings and brief descriptions of each of the things we did.

Millmerran is a lovely little town about 80kms south west of Toowoomba in Queensland. Its main tourist attractions are a selection of Murals that have been painted on buildings around the town and on the Water Reservoir.

They also have a very well presented Museum.

Camp Oven Festival

Displays

Over the 2 days there were continuing displays of Axes,

Hand Shears,

Dog and Rabbit Traps,

Condamine Bells and Egg Beaters as well as demonstrations of Sheep Shearing,

Packing a Packhorse, Blacksmithing, Wheelwrighting, Rope Making and starting a fire using Flint and Steel. Some demonstrations were interesting others not so much.

Main Stage

Both Saturday and Sunday the festivities start off with the Bush Poets Breakfast, as always a great way to start the day as the larikin humor of our bush poets put you in a good mood for the rest of the day.

Over the days and nights there are various artist and bands playing and singing, there were no really big name stars but all I watched and listened too were good, some were artists I knew and others I had never heard of.

Chainsaw Carving

A chap called Rod Sheehan did a few shows over the weekend craving sculptures out of logs of wood. This man was a magician what he could do with a chainsaw. During the show we watched he carved a wombat and at the end of the festival his carvings were auctioned off, not sure if he received the money or it went to the Festival Committee.

as the post is getting a wee bit gone will continue in my next post