On a last minute random 11-hour road trip I discovered the Maryvale Roadhouse in the Scenic Rim, actually I drove right past it and then had to drop a U-turn to go back because it looked so vintage! OK….. well abandoned and rusty. But what really caught my eye were the old petrol pumps with the covers removed, I loved the cogs and numbers and spent a great deal of time photographing them. They kind of remind me of robots.
The community of Maryvale is close to the Main Range National Park and I’m sure people just drive by, but there is always something nostalgic and sad and lovely about abandoned places. I love the abandoned feeling, cobwebs, overgrown weeds, rust…………….
