Month: August 2023
Our Stay at Airlie Beach
We have spent the last two nights at Airlie Beach having. a break from driving and doing a spot of sight seeing. We left Eungella down the steep and windy road to the bottom of the range and back to the sugar fields. I must be vary naive as I had assumed that the town […]
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Driving from Rockhampton to Eungella
Don’t ask me what is between Rockhampton and Serena (just south of Mackay) – the answer is nothing! Just miles and miles of country like this.It went on forever (or at nearly 300 km). Back to Rockhampton for a minute. We were interesterd to see a few more of the classic old buildings in […]
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Crossing the Tropic of Capricorn
We only had a litle over 200 kilometres to travel today, but somehow it still took us all day. We began with a look around the town of Agnes Water and its adjoining town of Seventeen Seventy and then drove north to Rockhampton. The town of 1770 has officialy changed its name to Seventeen Seventy […]
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Four Hundred Kilometres to Agnes Water
We left Noosa this morning with its busy roads and multiple roundabouts. I tell you, it’s worse than Canberra! I had no idea where we were in this maze of circles. I just followed the GPS and assumed that it would take me to where I want to go. We put the car through a […]
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Into the Sunshine Coast’s Hinterland
Hinterland is a German word meaning “the land behind” and that’s where we spent today. The land to the south west of Noosa and the Sunshine Coast is called the Hinerland by the vocals. It’s a beautful area of rolling hills, quaint villages and superb scenery. We set our GPS to take us to the […]
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Exploring Noosa’s Surrounds
Last night’s sunset at Noosa was quite spectacular and we were in bed relatively early after dinner. After a week of travelling, we were up out of bed so late this morning that we missed breakfast. In the end, we sat at a table by the pool, had a coffee and eventmualy ordered a toasted […]
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From Warwick to Noosa
We left Warwick this morning after a quick drive around the town to see some of its heritage buildings and a stop at the supermarket. Just as we left the town, the road passed over the Condomine River. This river is part of the Murray-Darling Basin and drains the northern portion of the Darling Downs, […]
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Driving North to Warwick with a Border Crossing Into Queensland
Our route to our next stop at Warwick, Queensland, took us along the Nbew England Highway in an almost straight northerly direction. We traveled along the broad ridge of the Great Dividing Range which resulted in undulating country with lots of hills. We lost count of the number of steep descents that we encountered along […]
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Interesting Towns and Country on Our Way to Armidale
Before leaving Merriwa this morning, we made a quick visit to the painted silo near the old railway station. It depicts a flock of sheep in a canola field with the leading sheep wearing red socks. These silos were painted relatively recently in 2019. The reason for the sheep wearing red socks is because of […]
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Travelling Further North to Merriwa
Tonight, we are in tne Upper Hunter Valley town of Merriwa. We arrived here late this afternoon as the shadows were getting longer after a very comfortable day’s touring through interesting farming country along the meandering Castlereagh Highway from Lithgow. Our first stop was at the Hartley Historic Village, 20 km from Blackheath in the […]
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Taking in Some Spectacular Blue Mountain Scenery
Today was set aside from travel so that we could explore some of the sights of the Blue Mountains. This area of New South Wales is densely populated by oil bearing Eucalyptus trees. The atmosphere is filled with finely dispersed droplets of oil, which, in combination with dust particles and water vapour, scatter short-wave length […]
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Travelling on to Blackheath in the Blue Mountains
We left Canberra this morning with happy memories of the 50 Year Vietnam War Commemoration and the mates that I had caught up with over lunch yesterday. Just out of Canberra, the road passed Lake George which for most of my memory had been empty and the land used for grazing sheep and cattle. Right […]
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