Jack and Jill seats

Out early this morning on a mission. When we had to call RACQ to pick up the car, Lucy's water bowl was left there. We drove out the 12 ks to see if it was still there. Funny thing was, there was a cache 71 metres from where we stopped the car and it was subsequently recovered so I was able to pin point the exact spot.

We continued on and collected eight caches including two more letter boxes before returning to town, a visit to the laundromat and morning tea while we waited for the machine to wash our clothes.

Morning tea with coffee and extra milk just in case it was a bit strong, delivered to us outside.
Very cheery seats and pots.

I had forgotten that these seats were called jack and jill with the table in between.

Letterboxes

Today we drove out onto country roads looking for letterboxes, not just any letterboxes, the ones we wanted were special.

Five letterboxes had been made, decorated and placed by property owners for the purpose of geo cachers, nothing else. The propertys are all on the same road, it is a very long road.

We decided to drive out to the end which was 70 kms from town and find them in the way back. Internet was patchy so we had download the postions beforehand. Information had only been given out this morning so they were very new.

Warrens vote for Rossco truck, made from all recyclables.

Aidans choice. Called I kid you not.

 An emu, with shearers combs for feathers and horse shoes for feet.
Cachers who went and found them to asked to select their favourite one, once the numbers have been tallied, the grazier will win $500.

Real emu and his chicks, there were eleven of them, we had to stop for them to all get across the road. We were back on bitumen road when we saw them.

Musical stock yards

A musical bridge at a stock yards? How can that be? But it was true.

A small town in outback Queensland and as they had reverse parking (such a pain  ut even more so went towing a caravan) we drove into a side street to park.

I made coffee and then Warren had a short rest while I toured the township.

 Bit hard to see here but in the middle is the musical bridge, Adian is next to it as they caught up to us. Either side of the pipes were two rubber dongy things to hit the notes, they were attached to the bridge and long enough to reach all the notes. The nites were etched into the pipes.

This was one of the gates to get into the middle and therefore the bridge, of course there just had to be a cache up inside the cowbell! We also discovered that there was an actual Bonus Downs property further on out the road.

Ready to go

Our trip north has arrived, green ribbons are on the car. It was decided to have green ribbons to indicate to others that we are travelling to the same event.

A couple of pics of interesting things along the way and there may have been a cache nearby

A Rainforest Walk

Last week we drove to Maleny and visited Mary Caincross park. Last time we went we only did a short walk which was called the butterfly walk,  only about 500 metres.

Ha, this time we did find the entrance to the rainforset walk, had to go through the reception area. Entry to that was by gold coin donation.

Lucky enough to see a family of pademelons, a very small version of kangaroos. The adults stood about half a metre tall with the babies or young around six inches. One young one was trying to get into the mothers pouch, she boxed his ears and wouldnt let him, we thought that she may have had another smaller one already in there. These were just off the path, in the bush, very hard to see and I did take some photos but couldnt see them against the foligage.

Massive trees and tree roots

 Warren with sister Val. We had scones jam and cream for lunch and enjoyed fantastic views.

Ladies in Black

An Aussie movie set in Sydney in 1959. A new temp aged only sixteen starts work in a department store.

She did really well in her final exams and had to be a bit devious to get her father to sign the paperwork so she could apply to uni. He was old school and stated that he didnt go to uni and h.it didnt hurt him, besides, "More educution is just wasted on girls".

Words like refo and new australians were used though out and then there was the "foreign foods" which are pretty much common place these days.

A nice movie which showed how life used to be.

Footy Finals

Both Warren and my team just got into the finals at three and four. Both played last week and we didnt expect either of them to go any further.

Friday night was the Hawks and as we thought, they were beaten so time fir them to put away the boots until next season.

My team played Saturday night and boy oh boy, they came out on fire, well blow me down, they continued and ran out winners. Last night they played the top team who had not been beaten all season, well again they won so grand final next week.

Currently watching the other game to determine who is their opposition. It is almost like last night with one team dominating, looks like it will be a great game next week.

Carn Collingwood only one more game to win to hold up the cup