Rotary Park, Guyra, is the heart of the Lamb and Potato Festival.
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Stallholders sell everything from Ecuadorean clothing, gold and silver jewellery, and gourmet cheese and wine to electric pain relief, turmeric pills, tattoos, honey and beeswax candles, and bird sculptures.
There’s something for everyone here.
“There’s plenty of traffic coming through,” Mark Werts, of the Travelling Cappuccino stall, said. “It’s well patronized by locals and travellers, as normal!”
He’s been at the festival for 15 years, and on the festival committee for a decade.
“It’s going to be another great year!”
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There was a long queue outside the food gazebo on Saturday morning – despite what may have been one of Guyra’s hottest days ever.
“It’s one of my favourite little festivals,” Shaun Lea, selling exotic filled candy, said. “The whole town gets behind it, and everybody’s always smiling.”
He’s on the road 48 weeks a year, from Mossman (near Cairns) down to Mildura.
Patsy Kemp also knows the joys of the open road. She’s selling her autobiography, The Drover’s Daughter.
“We never had a permanent home,” Patsy said; “our home was the back of a truck!”
She and her six siblings were on the road from the time she was 3 months until she was 16, travelling around northern New South Wales and southern Queensland.
She lives in Toowoomba, but misses the roaming life.
And, of course, there are locally grown potatoes. Deb Moore was selling spuds on behalf of the grower. These versatile tubers, she said, were ideal for mashing and baking.
The Guyra Lamb & Potato Festival runs until Sunday, January 27.