Month: August 2025
My Unexpected Day With the Vietnamese
Today, I experienced something totally unexpected. My good mate Ken and I attended a service that commemorated the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War and the first arrival of Vietnamese people to Australia. The service was held at the Dandenong RSL. I had no idea what to expect, but this commemoration was […]
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We Have Returned Home
On our last day of our trip from Port Douglas, we only had a little over 220 kilometres to go from Sale to get back home in Melbourne. We had some spare time to see a number of things on our list of places to visit in Sale. The first was the War Memorial outside […]
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Sale – Our Last Night on This Trip
Tonight, we are in the city of Sale and this is our last night before arriving home tomorrow. Today, we had a pleasant and unrushed travel day with plenty of time to see some of the places that we encountered on our drive from Eden. For the first part of our drive, we travelled through […]
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Some Enjoyable Time Around Eden
Yesterday’s drive from Ulladulla to Eden was in stark contrast to the day before when we had driven on motorways to avoid Sydney. Instead of just driving to a destination as we did the day before, yesterday’s travel was very pleasurable. We were able to enjoy the countryside, beaches and forests that we encountered along […]
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Two Days of Traveling South
Our last two days of travel have been less than exciting – one by accident and one intentionally. Yesterday we were late in leaving Port Macquarie after fiddling around checking some local sights and stopping at the supermarket. It was after 1100 by the time we were on the road. Our plan was to travel […]
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We Are Celebrating
Yesterday was our 53rd Wedding Anniversary. In our trip plan to FNQ, I deliberately planned for last night to be in Port Macquarie. It was our honeymoon destination in 1972. In those days, overseas travel was not common so most honeymooners like us just went to somehwere domestically that was a bit exotic and Port […]
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Farewell to My Good Mate, Max
Last night when we checked into our hotel, we noticed a group of people looking rather haggard. They were the participants in this year’s Queensland Variety Bash travelling from St George in Central Queensalnd to Port Macquarie – an arduous drive of ten days. Variety Bash cars must be a minimum 25 years old . […]
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We Are Further Down The Coast
We had an amusing breakfast at the RACV Resort on the Gold Coast watching the staff squirt cheeky Magpies and Ibis with water in repeated attempts to keep them from the poolside dining tables The early stages of our drive were different and frustrating. Rural scenery was replaced by high rise towers as we drove […]
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Our Day on the Highway
Our route today took us south down the Bruce Highway to the RACV Royal Pines Resort on the Gold Coast. This will be our last night in Queensland before we cross the NSW border tomorrow. Just north of Gympie, the road changed from a single lane road to something of a motorway with two lanes […]
Read MoreTouring Historic Maryborough
Today was our opportunity to see some of the historic buildings and places here in Maryborough. Maryborough was Queensland’s industrial powerhouse in the final decade of the 19th century, producing naval ships, heavy castings for sugar mills and railway locomotives and rolling stock. It also seemed to be the home of many large buildings that […]
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Another Day Driving South to Maryborough
Well, it rained steadily all day today. It was cool and we had our jumpers back on. The weather had difficulty making it to 15C. I think that the temperature in Melbourne was actually one degree warmer today. We took a few minutes before leaving Gladstone to see the main street and some of the […]
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Two Days of Travelling Down Queensland’s Capricornia Coast
Over the last two days we have driven approximately 650 km from Bowen to Gl adstone with an overnight stop ar Carmila. Before leaving Bowen, we stopped in the main part of town at Jochheims Bakery for a coffee and brekkie roll. This place is something of an institution in Bowen as all the time […]
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