WHERE ARE WE NOW !!!!!!!!!

 A few weeks have past since I have put anything on this blog, thought it was about time that I filled in the gaps as to where we have been.
Since leaving Carnarvon Gorge we have travelled further west and north to Longreach and Winton.

Longreach is the home of the Qantas and we spent a day having a look through a couple of the planes that they have here. It was very interesting and you can easy spend a whole day here. Also at Longreach is the stockmans hall of fame, came to a show in the evening which turned out to be a good evening including a good meal. 

Then we moved onto Winton which is were they have found the remains of many dinosaurs, there is even a place where there is the stampede of the dinosaurs which can be seen in the ground.

Now we have moved up to the Atherton Tablelands, the weather has improved but it does get cold at night, (good cuddling weather), We are going to stay in Northern queensland for the next month, we are planning to fly back to Perth in September to watch the dockers play finals but as I am typing this blog we are being slaughtered by St Kilda . 

As you can see from some of these photos it is so dry in the outback, no water anywhere and it is so dusty. Wait till I put photos of the Atherton tablelands and see how different it is here. very pretty green rolling hills. We both really like this area.

CARNARVON GORGE

 Well here we are at Carnarvon Gorge, we have heard so much about this place that we decicded that we couldnt be so close and not come and see it.

We had a great day and there is plenty to see but lots of walking, it ended up taking 6 hours to complete the 14k walk. The majority of the walking was pretty easy going but I have to admit that the pace did slow down on the way back, one way and one way out .

Lots of people are walking this gorge and most of them a lot older than both of us , we have had a great day and very glad that we came here.

Disappointed that there wasnt very much wildlife but the scenery made up for it, we crossed 11 water crossings but they have made it easy and the water is pretty low so even if you do slip and fall in all that would be hurt would be your pride, not even a wet trainer for us both.

We both slept very well that night and woke up a bit sore but had a great day and would recommend it to anyone that maybe passing through this area.

If you are not sure where this is ( on a map ) head west from Rockhampton till you get to Emerald then south for about 200k.

Carnarvon Gorge in Central Queensland.

THE STORY SO FAR.

Well here we are before our boat trip from Hervey Bay which we thought was a charity trip to go and watch the whales, well it turned out to be a sail boat race and we were watching the race, no wind that day so we sat bopping around waiting for the sails to catch a little bit of a breeze, very boring but it was my fault for not reading the poster thoroughly. We went out on the whale watching boat not watching whales, never mind.

We have now moved up the coast and are presently at the camp shown in the picture below, very nice free camp just outside Calliope which is near Gladstone. we are going to head west  inland on Monday heading to Carnarvon Gorge which we have been told by many people that it is a must see.

Then we will stay inland and see some country towns and hopefully some nice weather, its very overcast today. I know this is winter but we are in Queensland it should be better than this.

We went to a historical village yesterday hence the picture of Andreas sitting on the dunny,  just for a bit of fun and thankfully no-one around at the time of the photo. It was interesting but i think we may have seen enough historical villages for the moment.

The World cup started today so I imagine that Andreas will be watching quite a bit of football over the next few weeks. That will make him very happy.

QUEENSLAND

Well here we are in sunny Queensland, thankfully the weather has improved. 

We get asked all the time where we are heading to, and we only really plan our next stop and at present we are staying in a place called in-skip point which is very close to Fraser isalnd. We have extended our stay three times as we weren't sure at first because we where getting reports about the sandflies and mozzies. I am covering myself with repellant but have still got a few bites but not enough to make us move on.

Its a beautiful beach, Andreas has tried every day to catch fish but it seems that nobody is catching.

Spent some time with some friends in Toowoomba ( Trudie and Phil), and they took us for a ride into Brisbane which was very nice.

Heading from here to Maryborough to some other friends for a couple of days then we shall have to get out the book and look for our next camp.

As long as the sun is shining we are happy.!!!!!!!!

Heading north for some sunshine

Well since my last post we have moved into Queensland quickly, we got fed up with the weather so we have decided to come back to the NSW coast in the summer .

We are not planning too far ahead, just trying to follow the sunshine, had a lovely time with some friends at lake St. Claire but the group went home early because of the weather.

Thought you might like to see the sun rising over the sea, as we don't get to see this in the west, got up early to get the sun rise. We normally dont appear till about 7.30 / 8.00 and have been known to sleep a little later. It sure beats getting up at 5am to go to work. I recommend it to everyone, as the saying goes

 LIFE IS FOR LIVING.

NELSON BAY NSW.

Here we are at the end of our house sit, we have had some nice weather over the Easter break but today Anzac Day it has been pouring with rain all morning.

Its a lovely area, the view from the lookout was spectular and worth the effort to walk to the top, the views could be anywhere in the Med.

We leave here on Sunday morning heading for a camp at Lake St. Clair, meeting up with kevin and Lesley friends that we have met at Mystery bay.

Today is Anzac Day, it would be wrong of me not to mention it.

LEST WE FORGET

NSW travelling north

Not sure if anyone is actually looking at this blog but maybe its my fault for not doing it very often and sometimes I can use the excuse that we need power which we don't always have.
We have just moved into our house sit here in Medowie which is just north of Newcastle very close to Nelson bay and Port Stephens, it is a lovely area and i think we are very lucky to here for the Easter break although the weather has not been very kind to us.
We spent 10 days just south of Sydney on the coast, it was a great spot right on the water and we could catch the train into Sydney for the grand sum of $2.50 for the day. Then we moved onto the Blue mountains, didnt take the caravan up the mountains but got some lovely pictures, had a ride on the steepest train in the world and on the cable car. The scenery is spectular up here, you can see why it is so popular with the tourists.
Can't believe we have been away for 6 mths, it has gone so fast, there is so much to see, on the East coast you only need to travel a short distabce between places not like in the west.

Greek Easter this weekend, looks like we have a church to go to for midnight mass and then lamb for sunday lunch, this is when we miss our friends and family. Easter was always celebrated at our house with all the family and some friends, it will a quiet one this year

Happy Easter to all our family and friends