A 3 day visit to Palmwoods to visit Ellen's sister lives across from the van park, it's a very small park and tight for bigger vans, older building and ensuite showers but clean and tidy.
A good number of people who live here and not many spot for holiday makers
We got to visit the old garage in town that has been changed into a cafe, bar, coffee shop with a 60's theme and they have done well and it has its own stage and the walls are covered in 50 and 60's stuff as your can see from the photos below.

The rest of town had not changed that much and after we finished here we moved up towards Gympie as it was a damm hot day and we hoped to get to Goomeri that day

​Palmwoods, a rural township of about 3500 people, is near the eastern foothills of the Blackall Range, 90 km north of central Brisbane and 17 km inland from Mooloolaba. Originally known as Merriman’s Flat, the settlement’s name was changed to Palmwoods when the North Coast railway opened. The uncleared scrub contained tall palm trees that could be split and used for guttering.

In the 1870s there was spasmodic farm-selection activity around Palmwoods, and a wave of new settlers in the Maroochy region in the 1880s led to tree clearing for rich farm lands for fruit crops. When the railway line was opened in 1891 Palmwoods became an important outlet for produce, particularly citrus and strawberries. It was the first opportunity for Palmwoods growers to sell on export markets. As nearby towns formed fruit growers’ associations, Palmwoods fruit growers formed theirs in about 1899.

With a population of about 400 people, and another 300 in the intensively farmed hinterlands, Palmwoods had an active local shopping centre, several tradespeople and a memorial hall. Its population showed steady growth, except for a dip in the 1970s, and in the next two decades the numbers doubled. Palmwoods has a primary school (1889), a public hall, a showground, a sports ground, a swimming pool (1993), and two churches. It is surrounded by plantations and orchards.