5A Covill Ct
Glen Eden QLD 4680, Australia
(Latitude = -23.8972, Longitude = 151.2596)
(Altitude = 36 m)
(Accuracy = 10 m)
http://maps.google.fr/maps?q=-23.897179,151.259628
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Saturday, February 26, 2011
My location : Botanic gardens Gladstone
5A Covill Ct
Glen Eden QLD 4680, Australia
Friday, February 25, 2011
My location : Some boat ramp ;-)
98 Chernih Rd
Targinie QLD 4694, Australia
(Latitude = -23.7450, Longitude = 151.1282)
(Altitude = 6 m)
(Accuracy = 5 m)
http://maps.google.fr/maps?q=-23.744995,151.128204
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My location : Mount Larcom town
King George St
Mt Larcom QLD 4695, Australia
(Latitude = -23.8108, Longitude = 150.9800)
(Altitude = 53 m)
(Accuracy = 5 m)
http://maps.google.fr/maps?q=-23.810823,150.980042
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Pets and Island Life
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Island Life
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Island Paradise
So after a few hours we were on the ferry, the only vehicle, being treated to some dolphins skipping past. The tide being low, the barge touched the bottom a couple times on the way over and landed us on a natural sand landing. We drove up the dirt road that is only a four wheel drive track past the 50 acres of common land (being mowed round the gums) The island apparently has around 40 odd 1/2 acre sections, but only about 10 have been built on I think. There is a small resort down the other end of the island, the owner looks after sick and injured Wallabies as a hobby.There is an island population of 'Pretty face Wallabies' and another pair of kangaroos.. we only met cocoa.
On arriving at Laurie and Colleens lovely island home, there were quite a few of these beautiful wee animals wandering between the houses..of which on the inside harbour side, there are only 3. We got a tour of the garden, sporting lovely paths featuring Lauries and Colleens mosaic tiling handiwork..fish and seahorses and other designs.
We came across an envious array of edibles, Feijoa trees, Paw paws, Pineapples, Limes, kaffir Lime, Coffee trees (this had me almost in seventh heaven imagining fresh roasted coffee as they also have a small hand tumble roaster...mmmm), passionfruit ( a yellow variety thats absolutely delicious.)
We kicked back on the deck looking out over the harbour while Laurie fired up the Pizza Oven which he loves to cook in, and not just Pizzas, he put in a piece of Kid to roast along with potatoes, I made Vegie bean burgers to cook in there.
Laurie and Colleen have spent the last 8 years building their house as they can and have made a wonderful job thus far, as they still have some finishing to do..gibstopping etc. The Wallabies and a bush turkey cruised in for their nightly treats from the neighbours next door..pellets their neighbours keep in bags under the house.
Sunday a beautiful day..breakfast on the deck and more wallabies, now not so timid of the strange visitors..us! As luck would have it the only male kangaroo Cocoa cruised on up for breakfast, and also visited us up on the deck..Bevin being very wary of him as Greg next door told him he liked to play and box. After brekky Bevin and Laurie went down to plant the fig tree we'd bought over on a trailer along with a spa pool..not destined to be a heated one in this climate. I meantime was splitting pineapples sprouts and replanting them ..all too easy but hellishly hot work so when Bevin yelled out "Come down here" and upon looking down saw the pair of them lolling in the tide, I was on my way as fast as I could manage, not cold but oh so refreshing. They told me a large loggerhead turtle was swimming around them, so we floated round waiting for him to come up..he swam off through the mangroves so didn't get to see him. We went for a drive to the other end of the island and back and decided if we managed to win Lotto we would definitely buy ourselves a half acre of this island paradise for 160 thou.. not bad really we thought.
Time came all to soon to head back on the barge to Australia ..hahaha we weren't so far away at all but for a wee time it seemed like we were. It was definitely a peaceful serene beautiful little island , thanks very much to Laurie for sharing his and Colleens wee slice of Paradise..
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
February 16th 2011
An auspicious date to do an update, for those that know us well, know its a day of reflection for our family, today marking now 12 years since my mum and dad left us, and also a day to remember being our lovely daughter Rebekah and lovely husband Bryce's 3rd Wedding Aniversary..congratulations sweet ones:-)
Today finds us two weeks on since last blog and now back in Gladstone sporting damp skins ..OK ok, sweating like pigs requiring several showers a day truth be known..feel totally gross when pushed to exert...yeesh.
Backing up to Sydney saw Sarah fly off to Perth and have good news to report there..the little gem fell into a very well paying job almost straight away working for a Geology based firm in Gold Mining business, which she initially turned down but they wouldn't hear of it & offered her more money and the chance to make job 20% hers meaning she doesn't need to be bound to office in Perth whole time but can head out to desert where she has gone today to meet crew like geologists she'll be working with..lucky girl.
Before leaving Sydney we caught up for dinner with our first lovely Sydney host family then headed up to Newcastle soon after staying again with our friend Mary who also works up there and has another home there. We struck some very hot temps there..mid 40's, now that is quiet freaky first time round to feel breeze that feels like its fed by a fire..whew. We did a bit of picture hanging for Mary as she'd just moved back in, tootled around Newcastle discovering quite a gem in the city..beautiful beaches and some truly lovely old buildings.
We had fun leaving Mary's, I asked Bevin to come out and help me lower clothesline..he swears the door shut behind him of its own accord..funny didn't do that to me..so there we were locked outside , no phones, no shoes, no keys...after more than half an hour trying all angles to get into Mary's burglarproof house an obliging neighbor took us across town to local hospital to find Mary to get her keys...much to her amusement
Late start at 11am and an 850k ride ahead back to our friends Shane and Kylie at Mudgeeraba on Gold Coast..daunting but as we had decided setting off, we'd just see how we felt, but were going so well and didn't want a repeat of getting caught in thunderstorms so twas head down and bum up..quite literally at times got there at 8.30 to find we'd dropped back an hour with time difference ..being 7.30pm(takes a bit to get used to a country where time changes so much)
We had booked into a dinner and show Sat 5th, called Draculas that our family had paid for collectively for our Xmas pressie, wonderful idea, so along with Shane & Kylie enjoyed the offbeat show.... rocky horror type humor etc, with yes the crack at the Kiwi's in the audience. On entering the restaurant had to go on the ghost train..things leapt out of course haha..yeah I yelled with fright!
Paid for our keep waterblasting and oiling hardwood decks at Shane and Kylie's before heading back to Gladstone Wednesday a week ago doing another long day 600k's this time, but with two rest area stops and a McDonalds refueling stop got back here before dark.
We have been busy this last week getting all documents and cards/licenses organized to get jobs here for a while, so have now done the Industry required White cards ..Work health and safety,took good 3 hours or so ..brain drain, went off to sleep dreaming Health and Safety..that is sooo sad!
Have now got Queensland drivers licenses and go for our Yellow Medipasses next week so we can work on industrial sites here..the greenie in me can't tell you where, I hang my head Lloyd :-/ truly I do.
Gladstone has been kind to us with weather though we do melt daily. We've been lucky managing to miss all the worst nature has thrown at this poor coast of late..we were in Newcastle when Yasi assaulted coast further North.
Had a nice visit to the Gladstone hospital day before last..frightened the hell out of Bevin when Lara called an ambulance after I collapsed with severe abdominal pain in the morning..bad reaction to panadeine and neurofen on empty stomach they think(had them night before with no effect, but woke with headache and body aches so on advice took more before going back to bed then 1/2 hour later whammo!), so pink ladies -foul tasting pink gunk comprised of xylocaine and mylanta- which didn't kill it but knocked a wee edge off followed by Morphine that also didn't knock it was all on menu..disgusting is all I can say..but by days end it abated and I could go home...never going near those pills again!!
Today finds us two weeks on since last blog and now back in Gladstone sporting damp skins ..OK ok, sweating like pigs requiring several showers a day truth be known..feel totally gross when pushed to exert...yeesh.
Backing up to Sydney saw Sarah fly off to Perth and have good news to report there..the little gem fell into a very well paying job almost straight away working for a Geology based firm in Gold Mining business, which she initially turned down but they wouldn't hear of it & offered her more money and the chance to make job 20% hers meaning she doesn't need to be bound to office in Perth whole time but can head out to desert where she has gone today to meet crew like geologists she'll be working with..lucky girl.
Before leaving Sydney we caught up for dinner with our first lovely Sydney host family then headed up to Newcastle soon after staying again with our friend Mary who also works up there and has another home there. We struck some very hot temps there..mid 40's, now that is quiet freaky first time round to feel breeze that feels like its fed by a fire..whew. We did a bit of picture hanging for Mary as she'd just moved back in, tootled around Newcastle discovering quite a gem in the city..beautiful beaches and some truly lovely old buildings.
We had fun leaving Mary's, I asked Bevin to come out and help me lower clothesline..he swears the door shut behind him of its own accord..funny didn't do that to me..so there we were locked outside , no phones, no shoes, no keys...after more than half an hour trying all angles to get into Mary's burglarproof house an obliging neighbor took us across town to local hospital to find Mary to get her keys...much to her amusement
Late start at 11am and an 850k ride ahead back to our friends Shane and Kylie at Mudgeeraba on Gold Coast..daunting but as we had decided setting off, we'd just see how we felt, but were going so well and didn't want a repeat of getting caught in thunderstorms so twas head down and bum up..quite literally at times got there at 8.30 to find we'd dropped back an hour with time difference ..being 7.30pm(takes a bit to get used to a country where time changes so much)
We had booked into a dinner and show Sat 5th, called Draculas that our family had paid for collectively for our Xmas pressie, wonderful idea, so along with Shane & Kylie enjoyed the offbeat show.... rocky horror type humor etc, with yes the crack at the Kiwi's in the audience. On entering the restaurant had to go on the ghost train..things leapt out of course haha..yeah I yelled with fright!
Paid for our keep waterblasting and oiling hardwood decks at Shane and Kylie's before heading back to Gladstone Wednesday a week ago doing another long day 600k's this time, but with two rest area stops and a McDonalds refueling stop got back here before dark.
We have been busy this last week getting all documents and cards/licenses organized to get jobs here for a while, so have now done the Industry required White cards ..Work health and safety,took good 3 hours or so ..brain drain, went off to sleep dreaming Health and Safety..that is sooo sad!
Have now got Queensland drivers licenses and go for our Yellow Medipasses next week so we can work on industrial sites here..the greenie in me can't tell you where, I hang my head Lloyd :-/ truly I do.
Gladstone has been kind to us with weather though we do melt daily. We've been lucky managing to miss all the worst nature has thrown at this poor coast of late..we were in Newcastle when Yasi assaulted coast further North.
Had a nice visit to the Gladstone hospital day before last..frightened the hell out of Bevin when Lara called an ambulance after I collapsed with severe abdominal pain in the morning..bad reaction to panadeine and neurofen on empty stomach they think(had them night before with no effect, but woke with headache and body aches so on advice took more before going back to bed then 1/2 hour later whammo!), so pink ladies -foul tasting pink gunk comprised of xylocaine and mylanta- which didn't kill it but knocked a wee edge off followed by Morphine that also didn't knock it was all on menu..disgusting is all I can say..but by days end it abated and I could go home...never going near those pills again!!
Bevin & Felicity
http://bikersfromdownunder-lealand.blogspot.com/
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
My location : Canoe point Tannum Sands
Turtle Way
Tannum Sands QLD 4680, Australia
(Latitude = -23.9383, Longitude = 151.3646)
(Altitude = 12 m)
(Accuracy = 10 m)
http://maps.google.fr/maps?q=-23.938271,151.364639
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Friday, February 11, 2011
Fwd: Biloela
Subject: Biloela
Biloela
Town in the heart of a rich mining and agricultural region. Biloela is a rural service centre located 594 km north of Brisbane, 127 km from Gladstone and 173 metres above sea-level
Biloela's economy is driven by pastoral and agricultural enterprises and by the local coalmines, although, mercifully, it could never be described as a mining town. Specifically, local income is generated by annual livestock slaughtering, cotton production, dairying, wheat, sorghum, lucerne and other grains and cereals.
Mount Scoria
12 km to the south is Mount Scoria, a strange basalt formation about 150 metres high with symmetrically shaped rocks which look like a giant staircase. According to The Big Valley Story: 'During storms the mountain seems to attract the full force of the elements - lightning crackles incessantly about the summit and thunder is amplified to an intensity which shakes the country for miles around.'
My location : Biloela
57 Kariboe St
Biloela QLD 4715, Australia
(Latitude = -24.4014, Longitude = 150.5127)
(Altitude = 182 m)
(Accuracy = 30 m)
http://maps.google.fr/maps?q=-24.401419,150.512726
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Thursday, February 10, 2011
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
My location : Horseshoe bay Newcastle
My location : Horseshoe bay Newcastle
Horseshoe Bend Rd
Newcastle East New South Wales 2300, Australia
(Latitude = -32.9228, Longitude = 151.7907)
(Altitude = 1 m)
(Accuracy = 30 m)
http://maps.google.fr/maps?q=-32.922798,151.790665
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