Day 20 2/8/2019 Friday 1770, breezy clear 25 Dragon boat teams are practicing out on the water. The view through the palms is exotic with an island feeling. Cramped, untidy, smoky at night, the management team hammer the message that … Continue reading Follow the Sun, Day 20 Cramped in 1770
Day 19, 1/8/2019 Thursday Tannum Sands to Town of 1770, Sunny 21 Time to pack up and move on. Yesterday Woody had complimented a council worker on the state of the local parks. She suggested that we check out Turkey … Continue reading Follow the Sun, Day 19 off to 1770
Day 18, 31/7/2019 Wednesday, Tannum Sands, some cloud 25 windy evening We have a lazy relaxing morning, do a little shopping for curry ingredients and Woody cooks a Thai Green Curry while I walk on the beach. At happy hour we are joined by a menagerie of peacocks, turkeys, lorikeets and blue faced honeyeaters. The midges have been slowly eating us to death, bite by tiny bite. Our neighbours are all Victorians escaping the cold and Woody refers to the folks behind us as the ‘Wee Wees’ as they do nothing but read and walk to the toilet, a lot. … Continue reading Follow the Sun, Day 18 Tannum Sands
July 2019, Tannum Sands, Qld The foreshore parklands of Tannum Sands, Qld provide more than just undulating lawns, winding footpaths and pretty picnic shelters. There are some delightful art installations too. The speed humps across the road are lumpy green … Continue reading The art of Tannum Sands
Day 17, 30/7/2019 Tuesday, Tannum Sands, beautiful 27 We pack a picnic lunch and go exploring. It’s 25kms to Lake Awoonga on the other side of the Bruce Highway. Awoonga is a large expanse of water built to supply Gladstone … Continue reading Follow the Sun, Day 17 – Lake Awoonga
Day 16 29/7/2019 Monday, Tannum Sands warm We wake up covered in midge bites. It’s time to leave this bushy paradise for a powered slab site on the other side of the park. Our bush neighbours will move one space … Continue reading Follow the Sun, Day 16 – Gladstone
Day 15, 28/7/2019 Sunday, Tannum Sands, 24 This place is so relaxing that this morning I jumped out of bed feeling as though I had finally caught up on my sleep. With gusto I dragged the ukulele out from under the bed and instantly botched the F chord. Poor Woody was groaning. You’ve guessed it, the nails are too long. Not only that, I still haven’t coloured my hair since last weeks’ haircut. I had put it off because I didn’t want to get caught with plastic wrap on my head when the fridge repairman called. In hindsight I should … Continue reading Follow the Sun, Day 15 – Tannum Sands
My Shimano beach sandals have died and I’m quite sure that most of our friends will cheer. I bought these trusty rock hopping, floatable sandals at BCF Mt Isa in 2014. For those of you who aren’t familiar with the area, Mt Isa is about 500kms from the sea. These trusty shoes have travelled tens of thousands of kilometres, trudged beaches of the Pacific, Indian and Southern oceans and kept me afloat in a murky river on a hot day. They’ve even stayed sitting in the stepwell when the caravan door was flapping down the Bruce Highway a few years … Continue reading Rest in the rubbish bin trusty Shimanos
Aug, 2019 Tannum Sands, Qld Canoe Point at the mouth of the Boyne River is large parkland dotted with BBQ’s, picnic shelters and areas of lawn perfect for tossing a ball or having a snooze. Continue reading Canoe Point
No, this isn’t us. we spotted this rig on Boyne Island. Continue reading No Fixed Address
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