Mary Poppins house

 In a very small town of Alloura, sits a lively restored home. It was the childhood home of PLTravers who wrote Mary Poppins.

P L Travers was the name that she wrote under, Travers was her fathers given name and he worked for a bank and the house was the for the manager. 

He died when she was youngish and the family then went from family to family, to keep up the spirits of the younger children she made up stories and later she penned Mary Poppins.

It is a private residence now and I am sure they have heaps of people stopping and taking ohotos. I think the family lived there in the early 1900s

Soldiers Memorial

 Stanthorpe is in the granite belt and there are lots of outcrops of rocks. We ended for an earth cache regarding granite and it happened to be at this memorial.

We had to walk up past a house to get to it, the wall that had questions about it was off to the right. It was a curved wall that went between two large rocks.

I loved the clean lines of this with shelter and seats inside

Clifton

 Heading back home, we stopped at Clifton for a little adventure which took us to the local rose garden, the railway station and church.

Love the mickey mouse locks.

Stanthorpe, coldest place in Qld.

 It does have the coldest temps recorded in the Sunshine state, but it was nice and sunny when we were there. Four days later, they did have the first frost for the year.

We checked into our air bnb just as the the rain started, so we had a snooze and then ordered dinner, thank you mr pizza. Masks at the time were mandatory so we stayed in. 

Later we headed out around the town, visited a vets, the local park and finally the big thing in town which was a temperature gauge.

It is a brick structure and was reading 16.7c at 8.30pm but I only had short sleeves and didnt feel cold, luckily there was no wind.

Heading to Stanthorpe

 Our first cache was a letter box called Noah's Ark. Before we got there I had to answer some questions regarding the ark, one was how many daughters in law did Noah have? 

I had also thought it was two but no, wiki said three so soon corrected that.

The letter box itself was in a line of three country letterboxes with a padlock. The answers to the questions opened the padlock. Once opened, there was a flask inside and then the log to sign. Unfortunately I didnt think to take a photo.

I took one of the next one.

 

It was down a large stump and was attached to a cut out black cat. Awesome!

Two days in Stanthorpe

 Once the rain cleared, we headed to Stanthorpe for two days. There is an Apple shaped geo art out there and rumour has it that they may be cancelled in the near future.

The apples are puzzles and I did work out about half if them but Sheridan had done them all over two or three trips and as she was driving, she drove me to the general area. I think we got about 34 for the two days. It is about a three hour drive.

We visited a dike. This was an earth cache and due to the recent rains, the water was quite high.

Spelling is so important!

 At the event over the weekend and there was fun stuff to do. One was a type of getting to know the area/campground. Given co ordinates and once there, had to put in the correct answer before going off to the next one.

Sheridan and I were cleaning the toilets and before going into the mens, a young guy cane out and we asked him to check if there was anyone else in there. We didnt want to surprise anyone. He checked and told us it was all clear.

We put the sign about cleaning out and were chatting while cleaning. The door opens and it is the same guy. He had come to see Sheridan as he couldnt get the camp kitchen answer to work. As they both went out, I heard him ask if he should have put in greý rather than silver.

The question was, "What colour is the sink in the kitchen" answer silver as it was stainless steel.

He had been typing in sliver, he now knows how to spell silver.