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The morning we took our day trip to Kingoonya we got kicked out of the caravan park \"\"<\/a>. We’re still not quite sure why, something to do with us being “filthy pigs” (i.e. leaving our painting out to dry) and one of the girls using the upstairs bathroom. I think it all came down to the caravan park owner being a hard-on. He used to work at the Detention Centre, everyone in the town despised him. Luckily the town seemed to love us and set us up in the school gym for the night.<\/p>\n

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Kingoonya was amazing \"\"<\/a>, we all loved it, the slow ruin of the place. We’re not really sure how those cars ended up on the roof of the sheds. It looked as if there had been a flood that gently floated them up there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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