It’s happy hour and we’re beside a tidal creek where pelicans fish, up and down the river with the tide. You could say that we are a little relaxed. Our mate Vee Wee is cross that the kids haven’t rung to wish her a happy Mother’s Day. Then we realise that Mother’s Day is the following week. Being a senior is a bit like having several Mother’s Days really. Continue reading Are We Losing It?
Don’t you just hate that feeling when you go for a Sunday drive discover a nice spot and wish that you could stay a few nights, then realise that you’re actually on a picnic and the caravan is back home, … Continue reading Something’s Missing
Port Douglas, Winter 2014 We have new neighbours in a large camper ute that is wider than the site that they are on. While we chat ‘Pete’ starts hacking at the shrubbery, our pretty little dividing garden, and small palms are dug up and despatched to the rubbish bin so that more guy ropes can be pegged in. Hmmm. After they leave for ‘the Cape’ the management remove a rather large palm tree that Pete has felled in his efforts to create the perfect camp site. At least shrubbery grows quickly in this climate. Continue reading Pineapple Pete
August 2017 We’re back in Tocumwal and we wake to the sounds of the Murray, a million birds shrieking and singing, a rowdy cacophony. It brings back so many memories, the warmth of a tent on a summer morning and … Continue reading Terminus Hotel, Tocumwal
“…close my eyes and drift away…” Lazy Sunday by the Small Faces A warm spring afternoon and a belly full of fish courtesy of the fishermen at the boat ramp, these guys weren’t going anywhere. Continue reading Lazy Sunday Afternoon
Why not reduce costs and use the local granite boulders as walls? Frankly I think that the builders were onto a good thing when they built these masterpieces at the Melville Caves in Victoria, less concrete, less bricks and a … Continue reading Dunnies of Oz – Melville Caves
High up amongst the granite boulders in the Kooyoora State Park you’ll find a large campground with more than enough room to pitch a tent or park your van. The road in is excellent and sites are reasonably level, nothing a couple of ramps can’t fix. There are drop toilets, fires are permitted and there are plenty of walks around the Melville Caves to suit the fit or the lax. Continue reading Melville Caves Campsite
In the nineteenth century lookouts were popular with bushrangers as a place where they could hide out and watch for approaching danger on the roads below, thus the Melville Caves in Kooyoora State Park near Inglewood in Victoria were named … Continue reading Melville Caves
Thanks to Thejuicenut at http://pearsnotparsnips.com/ for alerting me to the fact that I didn’t put up a picture of the charming and historic Burns Philp warehouse in Normanton up in outback Queensland. It looks a little dim as the photo was taken at sunrise during an early morning stroll. Quite possibly we were savouring the coolest part of the day. Continue reading Burns Philp another era
This mural on a wall in Alexandra, Vic reminded me of a record that was once talked about in households across the nation. “In 1930 Charlie Heard created the longest continuous taxi fare in the world by taking three lady passengers to Darwin and return to Melbourne via Brisbane.” Continue reading The Stuff of Legend
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