We woke up to rain pattering in the roof on the day that a bus tour was organised by one of our residents. It was to Canungra where the Mountain View Alpaca Farm is situated. It is not far from home, less than an hour's drive through beautiful rolling hills of the Scenic Rim region. We stopped on the way for morning tea at the Bearded Dragon Hotel.
Luckily the rain was easing off when we continued up the mountain to Canungra, a little village with interesting little shops for the city visitors. We continued on to the farm. There was a shop selling alpaca goods and bags of food to feed to the alpacas.
This one needs a blow dry but they do have lovely eyes. The ones in this pen were ready to be taken for a walk in the surrounding paddock. Unfortunately we didn't do that.Next door there is O'Reilly's winery where we could taste the wines and then it was back on the bus to go to lunch at the Canungra Hotel.We had a while to wait before lunch so that we could have time to walk around the village shops. Bill and I found an interesting second hand book shop, Steph, above, found this cute handmade doll. Others found shoes and clothes or had a drink in the hotel. It took some time for all 38 of us to get our meals and then it was a chat with friends and onto the bus for home.