Border trauma.
Which way do I go? This is the quaint cafe inside the old Wallangarra Railway Station on the border between New South Wales and Queensland. It's one of those places where you can browse for ages at the stuff contained within its large interior and indeed exterior.
But there is a COVID conundrum if you were there now. The state border runs across the platform, luckily not down the middle and there are two border points nearby. The cafe is in Queensland. Queenslanders have been asked not to go to NSW as the COVID outbreak there continues to escalate, even into northern NSW regional towns which together with Sydney are now in lockdown. You need a pass to get back into Queensland if you stray across the border. Even a border bubble pass. SE Queenslanders are not supposed to be in Wallangarra anyway this week and next as part of the extended restrictions after our lockdown eased...do not go into regional Queensland. This has so far caused us to rejig and rebook our holiday twice already. (We were supposed to be in either Mt. Morgan or Townsville tonight, census night too according to whichever plan, A or B you choose, but both have been discarded). We are still at home! People from NSW are not supposed to go to Queensland and bring back our latest problem into northern NSW as I understand it. So there is quite an impasse at the border. What can I say, we live in strange times.
Wallangarra, Queensland mostly!
Border trauma.
Which way do I go? This is the quaint cafe inside the old Wallangarra Railway Station on the border between New South Wales and Queensland. It's one of those places where you can browse for ages at the stuff contained within its large interior and indeed exterior.
But there is a COVID conundrum if you were there now. The state border runs across the platform, luckily not down the middle and there are two border points nearby. The cafe is in Queensland. Queenslanders have been asked not to go to NSW as the COVID outbreak there continues to escalate, even into northern NSW regional towns which together with Sydney are now in lockdown. You need a pass to get back into Queensland if you stray across the border. Even a border bubble pass. SE Queenslanders are not supposed to be in Wallangarra anyway this week and next as part of the extended restrictions after our lockdown eased...do not go into regional Queensland. This has so far caused us to rejig and rebook our holiday twice already. (We were supposed to be in either Mt. Morgan or Townsville tonight, census night too according to whichever plan, A or B you choose, but both have been discarded). We are still at home! People from NSW are not supposed to go to Queensland and bring back our latest problem into northern NSW as I understand it. So there is quite an impasse at the border. What can I say, we live in strange times.
Wallangarra, Queensland mostly!