July 2017 Sunshine Coast, Qld Back at our camp at Lake MacDonald after a morning tootling about the Noosa river Woody sends a bragging InstaWeather pic to Dee and she replies with the temperature in Noosa. “What? You mean that you’re just down the road?” Yes, they’ve been up ‘here’ since Friday too. We spend a lazy afternoon chatting about life, death and dump points. Continue reading Where are you?
July 2017 Sunshine Coast, Qld On the sage advice of a friend we board the Tewantin ferry and spend 45 minutes tootling down river to Noosa Heads stopping at half a dozen wharves along the way. The skipper is a … Continue reading Tewantin Ferry
Tucked in the hills a mere 14kms south of Castlemaine, Vic is the tiny, wee hamlet of Vaughan Springs. This was once a gold mining area and a young lad by the name of Jim Paull was working in the … Continue reading Vaughan Springs
Not far from Castlemaine’s Forest Creek Diggings is the Pennyweight Flat Children’s Cemetery. There can be no more stark a reminder of how difficult life would have been for a gold mining family in the nineteenth century than this stark … Continue reading Pennyweight Flat Children’s Cemetery
The Forest Creek Gold Diggings between Castlemaine and Chewton, Vic has an informative walk to help visitors understand how gold was extracted in days gone by. Alluvial gold was first panned in the 1850’s in the creek here before the … Continue reading Forest Creek Gold Diggings
What do caravan parks do when things are quiet? Bring in new cabins and amenities buildings. Portable buildings make things so much easier these days. Continue reading New Bathrooms
At Happy Hour I complain that I’ve put on weight and now have love handles. “Oh” says my friend ‘S’ “I thought they were for the carers to pick us up by!” Continue reading Love Handles
Nov 2017 Police Paddocks, Rutherglen They say that magpies have incredible memories and can remember a person who treated them badly twenty years ago. They are territorial creatures and they certainly do know and respond to the humans who live … Continue reading The Australian Magpie not just a pretty face
Upon reflection, I doubt that many would want a repeat of 2017. Dec 2017 While we sat in tranquility at Vaughan Springs breathing in the warm country air a storm crossed high above us, in the very tops of the trees and continued on to Melbourne to drop heavy rain and cause havoc. In the morning we woke to perfect reflections on the still waters of the small weir, passed pleasantries with our neighbours, played on the kids slide and watched insects water ski on the weir. May your 2018 be tranquil. Continue reading Upon Reflection
