My holiday project

 I bought two bags of mill ends (wool) at Spotlight, one bag was purple and the other yellow. I had also visited the opp shop and picked up some small balls of wool, all different colours, these were in an A4 plastic sleeve for a dollar.

My plan was to use the small balls for the centres then three rows of yellow and three rows of purple making approx 10 inch square. Squares are easier to handle and dont get too hot but twenty should make a decent sized blanket.

It was a project to take away and the aim was to do one square a day. I did start earlier and by the time we got home, I only needed three to complete the twenty. Of course the purple started to run low so some have more yellow.

Sunday was stitch up day and I also had some of my temperature blanket to catch up and stitch some of that too, thank goodness for football.

Finished result, purple and yellow wool is thicker so it will be quite warm, still have many of the little bits and pieces left over.

Mundubberra.

 What a name, I dare say it is an indigenous word but I have no idea what it means. We have stayed here before but in the caravan park which turned out to be just across tge road. 

It was the dearest motel of the trip, a bigger room and the furnishings were better so I suppose that jystified the price. There was also a restaurant attached to the motel byt we decided to walk down the town and buy takeaway.

A seafood place was 750 metres away, I checked my phone and there was a cache on tge way. 

 A painted water tank and if one reached under the steps, its amazing what could be found. 

We ordered dinner and stepped outside and saw an amazing amount of bats flying, they appearred to be coming from trees and flying above us starting jyst as the sun started to set, we watched fir approx 20 minutes until dinner was ready and it was too dark to see them any more. We estimated about 10,000, they are a problem in the town apparently.

Moura

 We stopped here for lunch, there were a couple of caches and an earth cache which looked interesting and it was. It talked about holey rocks which came about by blasting but there were two rocks at a rest stop which lined up and were/are on the 150 meridum that makes the eastern standard time in Australia. Something else that I didnt know. Earth caches usually make me feel dumb as I am not terribly knowledgeable about geology but this was a good one and I could answer the questions.

Although it appears as one rock and one hole, the smaller hole up to the top right is in a similair rock approx 20 metres away.

Adventure lab in Emerald

 First point started in the botancial gardens, then it was back into town to discover some history.

Impressive railway station.

The fountain was a tribute to all the men and women who served in WW1 and 2. The tubes of the fountain were for each fallen member from the area. The other side of this fountain were stone walls with every members name.

We also needed to find the town clock. 

Emerald botanical gardens

 Wow, did not realise that Emerald was big enough to have a botanical gardens. Entrance was overshadowed by a massive windmill. We followed a concrete path around a lake, plenty of trees shading the path which was very welcome as it was rather warm, 30 degrees.

Next were emus.

Ducks were swimming in a green lake, I assume there was a weed on the surface of the water.

Capella

 Very nice tribute to veterans who served plus apparently the area was where the wearing of the emu feathers in their hats came about for the light horsemen. They would ride into battle but would fight dismounted with one soldier of a group of four taking charge of all four horses leading them out of harms way while the other three soldiers fought on tge ground

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Clermont

 My turn to drive and of course I get the bumpy bits, at least it didnt rain. In the past on long trips, it seems to rain when I take over the wheel. Recommended speed was 80kms due to rough surface.

The motel was attached to a pub and our room was upstairs.

There was a brace of painted carriages down the street that I grabbed a photo of and then we stopped out the road to get a cache, it was called bootie time. We stayed for two minutes and left, think the tree and its booties should be disposed of.