Day 69 Sunday 16/7/2023 Mulambin, light rain cool 21 We spend the morning indoors and complain about the weather, but it is a chance to catch up on some blogging. Feeling wintry and with a couple of bananas in the … Continue reading Yackety Yack, Days 69 & 70 – Making Banana Frisbees
Day 67 Friday 14/7/2023 Mulambin, Breezy 15 – 22 It’s Woody’s birthday and we have a quiet morning before he walks to the marina with R & S. Elle and I drive. Lunch at Waterline Restaurant overlooking the boats is … Continue reading Yackety Yack, Days 67 & 68 – Green Ants & Termites
Day 65 Wednesday 12/7/2023 Mulambin, windy 14 – 22 Woody walks into Yeppoon. Elle and I drive in as I need to have an injection and Elle needs a chemist. Oh, the joy of being peripatetic septuagenarians. It’s quite handy being ‘on the books’ for the medical centre here as the nurse who gives me my jab also did it in 2021. Elle faces the confusion we always face on the road. You see our home doctors kindly mark our prescriptions as being OK to dispense 6 units (if we want them, which is handy if we’re going bush). But … Continue reading Yackety Yack, Days 65 & 66 – Peripatetic Septuagenarians
Day 63 Monday 10/7/2023 Mulambin, sunny 10 – 21 Woody is doing the washing early when another camper arrives and ticks him off for using the laundry before 7:00am. He glances at the timer and says “Aren’t you lucky, you … Continue reading Yackety Yack, Day 63 & 64 – Travelling Mice & Double Head
Day 56 Wednesday 21/7/21 Mulambin, sunny 21 again Because of NSW and Victorian border confusion we extend our booking here another 5 days until the 18th of August. We’re lucky to keep our site as the park is busy. We wonder when and how we’ll get home. I zip down to Emu Park for an early morning blood test only to find the pathology lab closed. On such a sunny morning it’s a lovely drive to Cooee Bay where I’m attended to by an Irishman who has been here 4 years and loves jet ski fishing with a passion but … Continue reading Capricorn Dancers, Day 56 – Soundlessly pushing buttons
Day 55 Tuesday Mulambin, sunny 21 A quiet morning in the sun and processing a few hundred photos. It’s surprising how they mount up. Woody walks Mulambin Beach to Causeway Lake. I take the car to Lammermoor and walk the … Continue reading Capricorn Dancers, Day 55 – Lammermoor
Day 54 Monday Mulambin 19/7/21, sunny 21 We’re up early again, this time to farewell our mates Kath & Kim who are heading west to Emerald today on their way home to Perth via the Barkly Highway into the Northern Territory and on down through the length of WA. We wish them luck but none of us is envious of them as both borders are harsh at present and critical of where folks have been. We have a quiet morning in the sun before our appointment at the medical centre for our second Astra Zeneca jabs. The receptionists are extremely … Continue reading Capricorn Dancers, Day 54 – A shot in the arm
Day 51 Friday 16/7/21 Mulambin, hot 27 A glorious morning. Woody comes back from Baked on 44 in Yeppoon with almond croissants and we have a long leisurely breakfast outside with a cheeky Blue Faced Honeyeater for company. We meet … Continue reading Capricorn Dancers, Day 51 – Brekkie with the birds
Day 49 Wednesday 14/7/21 Mulambin, wet & warm 21 It’s Woody’s 75th birthday and it’s raining but he comes back from his morning walk with an armload of passion fruit. El Prado had spotted a laden vine that hangs over a nearby footpath dropping fruit for all. We meet in Yeppoon for a birthday lunch at the Railway Hotel where the patrons are colourful and the food ordinary except, the birthday boy scores a Chilli Garlic Prawn and Moreton Bay Bug Spaghetti that is excellent. A drive around the Rosslyn Bay marina without even getting out of the car just … Continue reading Capricorn Dancers, Day 49 – Hip, hip hooray!
Day 79 Wednesday, 27/7/2016, Yeppoon, warm At last the car is ready. The part had been sent to the service centres’ old address. Time to pack. 2021 Note: This enforced break on the Capricorn Coast was a Godsend. It introduced us to an area that we had overlooked. A pretty stretch of semi urban coastline with views to the Keppel Islands, good shopping, a National Park that is worth exploring and the city of Rockhampton only 70kms away. To say that we were hooked is an understatement, we have returned twice and we’re still finding different things to do and … Continue reading Like a Rollingstone, Day 79 – Time to go
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