Day 57 Thursday 22/7/21 Mulambin, sunny cool 18 A cold early morning of about 5 degrees here. Up on the Darling Downs it was a chilly minus 4, the coldest in 20 years so we can’t complain. With El Prado … Continue reading Capricorn Dancers, Day 57 – A lazy chardy
Day 47 Monday 12/7/21 Rockhampton, cool 21 Kath & Kim leave to pick up their site at Mulambin. We pop in to the motor mechanic and book a service for Thursday. From there it’s down to Doblo’s fruit market on … Continue reading Capricorn Dancers, Day 47 – Let them eat toast
Day 46 Sunday 11/7/21 Rockhampton, warm 23 The Prado’s leave to take up their site at Mulambin. ‘Kim’ being an electrician fixes our faulty reading light and in the afternoon we venture into the CBD for a walk around the … Continue reading Capricorn Dancers, Day 46 – Loving the architecture of Rockhampton
Day 45 Saturday 10/7/21 Tannum Sands to Rockhampton, sunny 22 We’ve been unpowered for a week now and Woody is worried about the health of our batteries. We detour to Gladstone Aldi to buy a small solar powered gadget charger as an extra, or is that an excuse to check this week’s Aldi centre aisle specials? On a more personal front I’ve been bitten on the head and bum by midges. How they can bite through thick denim has me beaten. So much for my theory of rugging up in long clothes at happy hour. Exiting Gladstone, the MIL engine … Continue reading Capricorn Dancers, Day 45 – Rocky & Crackling
Day 75 Saturday, 23/7/2016, Yeppoon, hot 28 We have lunch in Rocky and admire the old buildings. It’s so good to see that so much of the colonial era has been preserved. We would have liked to visit Archer Park … Continue reading Like a Rollingstone, Day 75 – A peek at Rockhampton
Winter 2018, Rockhampton, Qld Up early to race out to Gracemere to enjoy Rocky’s finest. The Gracemere Saleyards are the largest in the Southern Hemisphere. There is an open Saleyards complex and an arena for the sale of blue blood … Continue reading Gracemere Saleyards
August 2018 We take the advice of a couple we met at Burdekin Cane Farm and seek out the Great Western Hotel. It doesn’t look much from the outside and there is an enormous shed at the back. Stepping up … Continue reading Great Western Hotel, Rockhampton
I’ve recently learned, thanks to you dear readers that Rockhampton in Queensland is the Home of Beef Cattle. How this knowledge had escaped me is anyone’s guess as the town has six life-sized statues of bulls and my favourite, this mural. Now that is a lot of bull. Continue reading Rockhampton and all that bull
There’s a trivia game along the Bruce Highway that’s intended to keep people alert, it is great fun. There are several billboards with a Question followed by the Answer a few kilometres further on. “Rockhampton is famous for?” We still don’t know what, we missed the answer. Can someone please tell me? And while we’re guessing can anyone tell me what the structure is above this laneway in Rockhampton? Continue reading And the answer is?
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