An Early morning walk with Lucy.

I woke up at 5.15am and wandered over to the toilets, when I came back, there was Miss Lucy sitting outside waiting for me. I felt quite awake so I figured I might as well take her for a walk.

We headed out the front and long the road.

 This was what I saw, there were about a dozen kangaroos of all sizes. I headed towards the beach before Lucy saw them or vice versa.

The caravan park was named after the lighthouse and the top of it had been moved there. The bottom was still at the waters edge as it was too heavy to move.

A few yachts were just heading out past the breakwater. After our little stroll, I left Lucy outside the camper watching the park start to wake while I went back to bed for a couple more hours sleep.

Iced coffee with a difference

Travelling back home on Tuesday, we stopped off at the Matilda service station. This is Matilda the winking eye kangaroo from the Coomonwealth games. The servo is longer on the main highway but we needed fuel as well as a break so made a point to find it.

Warren was going to get the eats but he couldn't find his wallet! Humm!

I went in and getting him an iced coffee saw two for $6, not one to pass up a bargain, I bought the two. Also bought Warren a takeaway trifle. He had beentalking about trifle on the way up and I reminded him that the last time I made one, noone else ate it and it got thrown out after three days.

The coffee was good but there was a difference taste to it, then I read it. Iced coffee with the flavour of Bungaberg Rum. Oops, Warren hadn't drunk any of his yet so we studies the contents and luckily it was only flavour, no alcohol. Tasted great though.

Beerwah

We visited Beerwah a couple of weeks ago, usually we drive past on our way further north but we were close by and Warren wanted to visit the local op shop to buy a jigsaw.

What a nice town, well set out with some quirks.

There were a couple of sets of these plus a larger one, maybe they had been visited by aliens. The flowers in the street were nice too.

Warren was able to buy two puzzles for a couple of dollars each.
I have been writing today and up to 6045, not bad for the second day

All happening at once, it seems

So we had Halloween, start of Nanowrimo, trip to the beach and rain.
We left to go to an event for Halloween last night and we had had no callers but a couple of kids were going past as we opened the garage door, we gave them a hand full of sweets that we were taking with us. I normally buy small packets of chips and ice blocks instead of lollies but because we were going out I didnt. I did make my little ghosties but forgot to take them out I know they have gone to a good home.
The suburb where we went  was crawling with kids, never seen so many dressed up before. Home at nine to do a little packing.

It's my writing weekend to start Nanowrimo. We travelled and set up, just got inside the camper and the rain started. No annex up yet, the car fridge was working too well, the frozen meal that I had put in there was still rock solid. In a break in the rain ventured forth to the local shops which google told us was only 340 metres away to buy fish and chips. Fish mornay will have to wait until tomorrow.

In between showers Warren got the annex up while I set up the table and computer inside, finally writing the first word at six pm, very late start for me. I had had thoughts about what I was going to write so I wasn't stressed. Eight o'clock Lucy decided she needed a walk so her and I wandered down the street and back again, then I finished off my writing for the day, 1748 words done so well on track.
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Ride like a girl

I went to see this movie last week with a couple of friends. They were keen to see it and I went along, it wasn't a movie that I was that fussed about going to see but I did enjoy it in the end.

It is about the life of Michelle Payne, the first female jockey to win the Melbourne Cup. She was the tenth child and her mother dies in a car accident when she was six months old. Dad was a horse trainer and all the kids bar one grew up to be jockey, two boys and seven girls. The other boy Stevie had Down Syndrome and he played himself in the movie.

It was more about how she had to make her way in what had been a very male dominated sport.

Springsure

This is a little town on the way out west. We stayed in the caravan park on our way home from our Ozzie lap. Then it was famous for having a piano up a tree. It was about twelve metres up and was the result of flooding in the area several years ago. Now it is very dry.

We didnt stop long, just a comfort stop and to check out this windmill that has been built recently. I think the windmill has been there a long time but they had made a fountain by placing rocks around it and water does pump out of the red pipe and flows over the rocks and down into a small pond.

Our mission was to identify three of  the rocks and note their character differences.

 A petrified tree was one of the "rocks".