Four days of rain.

 I know we needed some rain but four days is a joke.

All U3A classes were cancelled due to weather, I didnt leave the house except to walk Lucy Friday and Sunday evening when the rain held off for awhile.

Thankfully the paths are concrete where I take her but even so the above photo shows the water flowing over the path. Lucy is like a four year old kid and she has to walk in water. The water to the right of the path was about two inches up her legs.

Photos were taken at around 4pm last night, we waljed the same way at 8.30am today and there was little edidence but it was hot and himid, top temperature of 31 degrees. 

Further thunder storm this afternoon.

Our flowers

 Not much of gardeners but these are our lillies in full bloom.

Poor things have been moved twice in our place before settling here. Probably the only flowers that we have.

Retreat

 Just north of Miles was a retreat with a difference.

Its a veterans retreat.

Cabins caravaning and camping available for veterans of all services.

Every third night is free.

This was the end of the road for us so we turned and drove back to Miles. With me testing out driving the manual ute on a quiet and gravel road. Not something that I want to be doing on a regular basis, I love my auto but at least I know I can drive it if I need to.

A quirky photo from Wandoan.

The Wandoan Surf Club. 

What the?

I asked the waitress about it when she bought our coffees. 

It was a printing hub and when it opened a few years before was the only place in town to surf the net. Of course!

Wandoen

 This was for a parkrun. We had travelled up to suss it out on the Wednesday. Great park and lake. It did start to sprinkle a little while we were walking around. Not really getting wet but ground was becoming muddy and as there was clay involved, it stuck to our shoes making us about an inch taller. Lyckily there were rocks and gravel on the track vack to the ute and we were able to scape much of the mud off.

Saturday was dry so not a problem.

Soldiers park and the statue was made was made from tools

Nice pretty garden

Soldier settlers avenue of honour. Visitor centre was over to the left and there was a coffee van as well.

Miles

 Quite a bigish country town with all the facilities that you would want or need. We went north south and east while we were there.

Dogwood creek was jyst out of town to the west.

Heading west is Dogwood creek, no idea why it is called that. We needed info from the info board. Apply some ma ths to get co-ordinates for a cache, which wasnt far away.

Rest stop on either side of highway with a toilet block on one side. Overhead rail line.

The hint was 12, each pylon was numbered. The cache was about head high in a bolt hole.

Condamine

We drove to Condamine yesterday. It is apparently the home or start of the cow bell called the Condamine bell.

This is it, need a big bull for this one to fit.

Of course there was a cache there. 

 Silly me didnt check before hand and it had a dnf, while I was rummaging in the ute for a suitable container, Warren found it up high in a corner of the shelter.

There was an airport halfway back to Miles with anther xache there.

e container

K8ngaroy Cache Fest

 First caching event for geocaching Queensland, held at the showgrounds in Kingaroy.

We had gone to parkrun in Proston, 60kms away but made it back for the offical opening and cutting of the ribbon by the mayor.

Sheridan had made the peanut. It was the second one, first had been attacked by the president dog and torn to shreds. 

The two ends unscrewed with a pink ribbon to be cut.

The mayor dresses in pink all the time and as it is pink month October for breast cancer the ribbon was pink and so were the scissors.

Cache fest concluded on Monday morning with an annoucement the next one would be in a years time in Cairns, following a mega in Maryborough Easter 2028.