The Farmers’ Arms Hotel in Cabarlah, near Toowoomba is Queensland’s oldest surviving hotel having been licensed in 1863. And upon looking once more at this photo I wish that we’d visited on a Thursday as I’m rather partial to Rissoles … Continue reading Pub Trivia
The sunrise was magnificent and people were standing in the water watching it. I can’t understand why they do this as it wasn’t all that long ago that a woman was taken by a croc at Daintree. The park owners have been insistent that we don’t paddle or swim in the sea or venture near the creeks on either end of the beach. Continue reading Tempting Fate
Just off the Bruce highway and south of Cardwell in Queensland there is a swimming hole called Five Mile Creek. A pretty picnic spot it has an invitingly deep crystal clear pool. There are fresh water turtles and fish in abundance. Continue reading Five Mile Creek
Cooking for a friend who eats seafood but not meat reminded me of this fish van on the Capricorn Coast. Continue reading Pescatarian Perfection
It’s July 2014 and we’re hoping to meet our friends G & S while we’re in the Cooktown area. G keeps trying to ring us but his phone cuts out. We drive out to Endeavour River Escape just north of … Continue reading Endeavour River Escape
While we are in Emerald, Qld we must visit the gem fields. Anakie, Sapphire and Rubyvale are only 44kms west of here. Woody suggests that we check out the Sunday market as miners like to sell their finds at these. … Continue reading Fossicking on the gemfields
We stop at Causeway Lake near Yeppoon in Queensland and I chat to fishermen who are working the ebb tide. They show me how to use a bait pump and they are sucking Nippers out of the mud. Nippers look like a white yabbie half the size of your little finger but with one giant pink claw as long as their body. Soldier crabs skitter across the sand nervously even though no one is interested in them. The water from the lake gushes out to sea at a fair speed and the fish are biting. Those nippers must taste damned … Continue reading Causeway Lake
Last winter we had a forced stay in Yeppoon, Qld while we waited for a spare part for the car. Our RACV Total Care insurance covered the cost of a hire car while the Jeep was off the road. We caught the local bus out front of our caravan park at Mulambin and toured the suburbs of Yeppoon and all the way to Rockhampton airport ( a little over 40kms) where the hire car was waiting. Woody was right, the local bus was an interesting way to travel and the driver was teaching another driver the intricacies of the route. … Continue reading Civility Costs Nothing
Clermont is a sprawling and unmistakably Queensland town perched on a hill. There is a replica piano high in the crook of a gum tree as a reminder of the 1916 floodwaters that really did leave a piano perched 32 … Continue reading Piano in the Tree
