Photo highlights of this year's 2012 trip.
Kalkallo Road House
|
Main Street of Nagambie.
|
Our campsite at Finley.
|
|
Hillston CP.
|
Views of the road taken by Marg.
|
Mount Hope - Rock crystal fossicking area.
|
|
The UFOs are watching us.
|
Are we there yet? Nope, only 159kms to go.
|
No traffic.
|
|
Bourke - The Majestic Darling river.
|
Whistling Kite - Beautiful.
|
Bourke - Me at Fred Hollows' grave.
|
|
Mt Oxley - The spewed up sandsone.
|
Mt Oxley in the background.
|
Bourke - Our camp at Kidman's camp.
|
|
Bourke - The local kids.
|
Marg on the Old North Bourke bridge.
|
Hotel Brewarrina in the rear.
|
|
Are we there yet? Nearly.
|
Opal CP, Lightning
Ridge
|
Lightning Ridge - Marg fossicking in our park's fossicking area.
|
|
Lightning Ridge - Dave our tour guide and Marg.
|
Lightning Ridge - Amigo's Castle.
|
Lightning Ridge - Alex's Astronomer's Monument.
|
|
Lightning Ridge - What is below the ground, this is their showroom.
|
Lightning Ridge - King Tut.
|
King Tut.
|
|
Buddha and Marg - she is in front.
|
Lightning Ridge - Old mine shafts.
|
Marg's opal nobbie with a hint of green.
|
|
Lightning
Ridge - Scenery from the 1st Shaft Lookout.
|
|
.
|
NSW-Qld border.
|
Heaps of traffic, maybe not.
|
|
St George, Qld - The spillway.
|
|
Another light traffic day.
|
Mitchell - The uprights were ruined by the floodwaters.
|
On the way to
Tambo - See, it really did piss down.
|
|
Matilda Hwy - The Outback way.
|
Tambo - We did have a drop or two of rain.
|
Tambo - our foggy campsite.
|
|
Tambo - Stranded
due to floods.
|
Tambo - Just some of our fellow Strandees.
|
Tambo - At least, the cattle trucks were empty.
|
|
60kms North of
Tambo - This was the culprit, the sidetrack.
|
Winton - Great scenery.
|
Winton - Sunset.
|
|
Winton - Magnificent moon.
|
Winton - Marg and the man in the moon.
|
Winton - Taking in the sunset. Just Beautiuful.
|
|
Winton - Banjo the Dinosaur is on the right, if you couldn't tell.
|
Winton - Beautiful views from the top of the 'Jump Up'.
|
Winton - Beautiful views from the top of the 'Jump Up'.
|
|
Winton - The 10km driveway to Australian Age of Dinosaurs.
|
|
Winton is on the left horizon about 14kms away.
|
|
Only 110kms to Lark Quarry.
|
Lark Quarry - The local was watching us drive by.
|
Lark Quarry - Marg was engrossed.
|
|
Lark Quarry - The big footprints belonged to the aggressor.
|
The crow waits his turn.
|
How beautiful is this.
|
|
Lark Quarry - This is the Dinosaur Stampede complex.
|
|
Cloncurry - This is one bloody huge truck.
We're on the right.
|
Cloncurry - The old dude and his bull.
|
Quamby - Marg finding zig zag amethyst.
|
|
Quamby - Some of our zig zag amethyst.
|
Quamby - Marg surrounded by Tourmaline,
we think.
|
Fullarton River Garnets - Thanks God, the road had dried out.
|
|
Fullarton River Garnets - Just resting.
|
Fullarton River Garnets - Lunch in the shade.
|
Heading towards Kuridale
|
|
Fullarton River Garnets - Stunning views.
|
|
Kuridala - Heading towards the Amethyst gully.
|
Kuridala - Still at it.
|
Kuridala - We are very happy with this.
|
|
Kuridala - We drive into the wild, blue yonder.
|
|
Kuridala Amethyst Fields - some of our find.
|
This is normal
traffic. Bugger all.
|
At Maxwelton Rest Area.
|
|
Richmond - Fred Tritton lake.
|
|
Richmond - This is a replica of a 12.5 meter Kronorosaur.
|
Richmond Pilosaur.
|
Richmond - An old fossil.
|
|
Richmond - Marg the young fossil.
|
Richmond - Sunset - another ripper.
|
Hughenden in the middle.
|
|
Mt Walker - Hughenden - Sunset will happen.
|
Mt Walker - Hughenden - Waiting.
|
Mt Walker - Hughenden - getting redder.
|
|
Moonstone Hill - Our parking spot surrounded by long grass.
|
Moonstone Hill - Old diggings that we worked.
|
Moonstones - These are our non cutters.
|
|
Moonstones - These are our cutters.
|
Sign on the Kennedy Development Road aka 'main' road.
|
Chudleigh Park - Nice views.
|
|
Hughenden - Jim and Lesley Blue bus.
|
Hughenden - What a lovely couple.
|
Hughenden - Muttaburrasuras
|
|
Hughenden - Our camp at Allen Terry CP.
|
Charters Towers from the Tower Hill lookout.
|
Charters Towers - Sunday arvo, everything except the Pubs are shut.
|
|
Charters
Towers - I am stressed to the max, I see clouds.
|
|
Townsville - Marg with her Granny Trolley.
|
Townsville - Castletown is about 1km from camp.
|
Townsville - The V8 track is nearly ready.
|
|
Townsville - Our camp is in the middle. |
Townsville - Beautiful views. |
3 F18s ready to take off. Taken from Castle Hill. |
|
Townsville - I still can see our camp.
|
|
Townsville - Beautiful view with Maggie Is across the water.
|
|
Maggy Island - Our stretched Jeep Limo. |
Maggy Island - John our driver and tour guide was bloody great. |
Maggy Island - Marg feeding the Allied Rock Wallabies. |
|
Sapphire - Our camp.
|
Sapphire - The rainbow lorikeets are extremely friendly.
|
Sapphire - Marg (middle) fossicking at Armfest.
|
|
Rubyvale - Gunter the man who makes great Strudel.
|
Sapphire - Our probable cutters, maybe not the bottom one.
|
Sapphire - These maybe cutters, I hope so.
|
|
Rubyvale - Willy's
wash - Marg in action.
|
Mount Hay Thunder
Egg Park - Marg, hard at work.
|
While in the traffic jam, I snapped this.
|
|
Dicky Beach - On the Mooloolaba seawall looking towards the Point Cartwright Lighthouse.
|
That's Dicky Beach in the distance. .
|
Dicky Beach - Just a small sample of the bike paths. .
|
|
Another small sample of the bike path.
|
Guess what I found on the way home. Rum and Raisin. YUMMA!
|
Dicky Beach - Another water view, I can't get enough of them.
|
|
My Bike route - Dicky Beach to Point Cartwright Lighthouse and return - 34kms.
|
|
It also rains on the Sunshine coast.
|
Not the best weather.
|
Dicky Beach is a beautiful place when sunny.
|
|
Dicky Beach - Ian and his brothers having a wash.
|
SS Dicky wreck.
|
SS Dicky crab.
|
|
Glasshouse Mountains taken across the road from the Mary Cairnscross Park kiosk in Maleny.
|
|
Dicky Beach shopping strip.
|
Dicky Beach shopping strip.
|
Site 40 - Dicky Beach Family Holiday park.
|
|
Over the Gateway Bridge and heading to the Gold Coast.
|
Broadwaater TP - Our site - view through Marg's bedroom window.
|
My usual resting spot at the end of the Gold Coast seaway.
|
|
Broadwater Tourist Park - Site 88 - Our camp.
|
Saturday night - Stairway to the moon.
|
The view from our site.
|
|
Sitting on the beach overlooking the Broadway. It was magic.
|
Marg doing it really tough!!
|
Some of the views from our chairs. Just beautiful.
|
|
This is what we woke up too this morning.
|
I aassume that it is very similair in Melbourne.
|
This is why we love staying at Broadwater Tourist Park.
|
|
Shared park through the Broadwater Parklands away from the crowds. |
I crossed the
Nerang River bridge on the shared path.
|
Heading along the shared path towards the Southport Yacht Club. |
|
The Gold Coast Seaway Tower. .
|
At the end of the spit looking back towards the shore. .
|
Looking form the spit across the Broadwater to our camp site. Just to the right of the cabins.
|
|
Another beautiful morning in Paradise - Monday 13th August at 7:15am.
|
|
Soul Surfers Paradise.
|
The Esplanade shared path.
|
My bike leaning against the sign.
|
|
Bluey, my new best friend. .
|
Check the sky. I think it is Cirrus. .
|
My Fierce Snake. Ok, it may be a legless lizard but it certainly looks fierce.
|
|
This was found on the bike path.
|
It is a Coastal Carpet Python.
|
And away Monty goes, into the scrub.
|
|
The osprey family. Baby is in the nest.
|
The soldier crabs were out in force.
|
Water jet rocket man.
|
|
Another great view from our beach.
|
|
The metermaid
still exist. |
Monty is back
again and just chillin' in the sun. |
I got George in flight. Not a bad photo. |
|
Georges, all in a row.
|
After I passed them, I stopped and took this.
|
A beautiful morning with great views.
|
|
looking towards Surfers from the seawall. Just magic.
|
I finally spotted "Turt".
|
Dad and his new 'Black Beast'.
|
|
Sunday traffic as far as the eye can see. |
Gold Coast Show views. |
Spotted about 200
meters off the Spit. |
|
George and his brother George, just doing a fly by.
|
I'm getting closer, just missed his feet down landing, maybe next time.
|
George flying overhead.
|
|
The grandstand are already being constructed for the V8s on Oct 19. .
|
Yes, it does rain in Paradise. .
|
My trusty treadly is all packed away for the long trip back to balmy Melbourne.
|
|
Site 52 at Casino Resort.
|
Glen Innes
fossicking tour - We are here at last.
|
Glen Innes
fossicking tour - The pupil (me) and the Master.
|
|
Glen Innes - I am a dick! At least, I am not totally drenched.
|
Inverell - 7 Oaks
- Marg the fossicker in action.
|
Inverell - Views from Long Plains Lane.
|
|
Glen Innes - View from Sinclair's Lookout.
|
Moree - Gwydir CP - Drive thru Site 8.
|
Big4 Park Lane Shepp - site 38.
|
|
Homeward Bound.
|
|
|
The END.
Until 2013's trip back to Queensland.
|