It's a Miracle

Tom obviously sneaks a peep at the blog when we are not looking and has had a bit of a shock that he will not be sent to Sydney for a holiday again (repairs) and has decided that there just maybe another 55,000 left. I tried to fire him up this morning before giving him the heave ho and guess what ? up he came bright as ever LOL. 8am phone call from Woodgate caravan park, the phone has been found and for the time being it has stopped raining LOL

We've arrived in Bundaberg and yes right on cue down it came LOL

It's been a strange 24 hours, after 5 glorious days at Woodgate (52 klms away where we only got a sprinkle of rain overnight the first night) things decided that they just didn't want to leave or not without a fight anyway, firstly last night someone who shall remain nameless spilt a full glass of red over the lounge, first thing this morning he then split a full glass of water over the table, Ron's phone has disappeared ??????? last seen on the front seat of RT but we think when we pulled the power cord out it may have got tangled and is still laying around in Woodgate. This afternoon we took a quick trip to Gin Gin to work out the best way to get to Cania Gorge and TOM has decided that 55,000 klms is enough and he has spat it. I can promise you it will be a short funeral tomorrow and the replacement will be happily installed in the blink of an eye. At the moment it is absolutely bucketing down ala the pic, I took that about 20 minutes ago and it has now arrived. The touring puddle continues LOL

Ya right, no new photos LOL

The Easter invasion has started here at Woodgate so we are preparing to move on to Bundaberg tomorrow to stock up for the next week, then off to Cania Gorge National Park to do some walking, kayaking and generally getting away from the coast for the next couple of weeks. We have been incredibly lucky with the weather, Coffs has been flooded, Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast as well and each day they forecast that it is coming to us but yesterday it went around us and hit 200klms north of us and we went to the beach to celebrate LOL.

Under the boardwalk, down by the sea, on a blanket ..................

It sort of looks like Fire island but they had real fairies under the boardwalk there LOL

We are at Woodgate and it's a great little town, about 30 klms from Childers and just down the road from Bundaberg and still retains it's small coastal town look and feeling. NO flats, NO highrise very much like Kingscliff of the 70's, could easily fall for this place. Yes we have been to the real estate agents for a weeeee look. Hello to Emilio who has joined us from Argentina - boy we are getting around LOL. Rumour has it that the "Brudder in law" needs a boat LOL, stay afloat down there.

Rainbow Beach

This is not on the Island but is part of the national Park and was a great pic (I think) so thought you might like it.

Some of the oldest formations on the island ..........

Now some housekeeping is required : Hello and welcome aboard to Pat S all the way from USA, and hope the trip home to Brisbane was uneventful for Adrian and Denise, YES Ron is still suffering LOL. PS was it something we said last night ????? there is only your far side and us left in the park OOOOOPS keep expecting a knock on the door from management LOL.

It's an Ent

Treebeard was vacationing with us as well, I looked but couldn't find Gandalf, Froddo, Sam Merry or Pippin but I am sure they were close.

Rainforest

and YES it is sunny. The island is amazing, it's the largest sand island in the world and is home of very diverse flora and fauna not to mention some of the worst roads we have ever seen. The rain forest is now approximate 100 years old as the original was logged to within an inch of its life. The forest is home for 100's a species of birds and lizards.

Le 5 star "hotel de Tent"

I know this pic is going to be open to all those "Camp as a row of tents" comments but this was our accommodation for our little trip. Now just to get things in perspective you need to know the make up of our little group. 2 elderly Kiwi's and their very strange 20 something son, an Irish couple on their first overseas trip and lots of fun, two straight girls and another couple. We think the Kiwi son was a tad homophobic but boy had he picked the wrong tour, because as well as the above there were two girls which were obviously an item, two french men that we had doubts about, a couple of guys one from Switzerland and the other from Germany that were definitely an item and us to boot - a homophobic's nightmare LOL. Yes Hans he came from just outside Zurich but as he was about 150 years younger than you, we didn't bother with the question "Do you know" LOL

and we're off to Fraser island LOL

Well as you can see we are still travelling in the great puddle LOL. We were picked up at 7.30 AM by bus and driven down to the ferry for the 35 minute crossing to the island. What greeted us weather wise was very depressing as the thought of camping out in a tent and BBQ's all in the rain was not appealing but like true troopers off we headed. the shop in the ferry was doing great business selling rain coats but as we already were the "Kiss of death" weather wise a raincoat in our bag would be the last straw LOL.

Luckily by the time we arrived on the island the worst of the storm had blown over to the mainland and we actually got some sunshine. Over the next couple of day I will post pics from the trip.

Isn't she Lovely, Isn't she wonderful .....

This old Grand Queenslander is almost enough to make you want to move to Maryborough, I said ALMOST LOL. We arrived at Hervey Bay two day ago and apart from an overnight sprinkle the weather has been great. We are off to Fraser Island tomorrow for a two day tour so I should have some great pics for you when we get back.

The Willow Forest

This one has taken a long time coming. We drove past a Willow Forest back in November and it occurred to me that the only reason for growing Willows is to make Cricket Bats so I cut the middle man out LOL

It's off to catch that pesky fish

As you can see the Hunter and Gatherer was out to scare the living hell out of those pesky whiting, unfortunately 2 minutes after this pic was taken the sky open up and the very drowned H and G returned home totally soaked, Oh well next time

AAAAAAAAAAAGH Queensland beautiful one day, ................... the next !!!!!!!!!!

I guess the pic tells the story. We are of course on the Sunshine coast although at the moment we are going through an absolute bucketing outside so maybe this is what they call "Liquid" sunshine as it never rains in Queensland. We have been on the Sunshine Coast for 4 days and we did see the sun on day one.

We moved up to Noosaville today and it looks like a truly great place, even having a good look at the real estate. We both love what we have seen so far so you never know. I'm sure you would all like somewhere up here you could drop into for a holiday LOL.

The Tradition continues ........

Pictured above is our little slice of Sunshine Coast Paradise. Nestled in among the palms and 100 meters from the surf - who could ask for anything more? ok we arrived yesterday afternoon, straight off to the supermarket (compulsory weekly fight) to stock up and then back to the park to jump in the pool and cool off. Temp 30, humidity "Wall of water" LOL.

Watching "Top Gear" last night and the pic on the TV started to break up. Now this only happens when someone plants a bloody BIG tree in front of the dish, so we knew it wasn't that, or when the surrounding trees are being blown in from of the dish, no it wasn't that, so it must have been upper atmosphere disturbances. YEP, it was that one, we had the BIGGEST storm we have come across since we started travelling. We lost all of Top Gear and most of Housewives (AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH) so in all, nearly 2 hours of massive rain Storm. From now on I think we should rename this lap "Miss Guided 2 sails again".

Just incase you haven't been here recently

Well the sun is shining and all is well at Surfers. Just thought you might like a recent look at the ever expanding skyline. This look continues along the coast for approximate 20klms south and another couple of klms north. The town certainly has changed since we lived here. Tomorrow is off to the Sunshine coast (yes the oil slick) for a couple of days and then we need to start moving towards Cania Gorge for Easter.

We love you Hamish, Oh yes we do,

When your near us, the pillows gone too,

Dam and damnation Hamish took out the jumping pillow at the park - Peace and quiet LOL

We have now been on the Gold Coast for 5 days and this morning the SUN finally came out. We have had a good time here catching up with friends, lunch with Di, then dinner at her place, Lunch with Pearl and today lunch with Joan and Di so almost a full dance ticket LOL. Tomorrow we are sneaking back into Surfers to go to the "Rice Paddy" which is probably the best Vietnamese restaurant we have come across and that includes those in Vietman, then off to the RV and Caravan show at the showgrounds. I have a feeling this could be an expensive day LOL. Monday we head on up the coast to the Sunshine Coast to say hi to Phil who now runs the "Male only" Hideaway resort, so that should be fun. From there we head inland to Cania Gorge for Easter.

Hamish came to town

You have got to love this country, bush fires one minute and cyclones the next LOL. We arrived on the Gold Coast yesterday and so did "Hamish" luckily he is still about 250kl from here but is a category 4 at the moment so lots of very strong winds and driving rain

Well it's another weekend of "Warriors and Griswells"

After a great stop at Yamba visiting with Helen and Dan, getting a bigger rudder for D'Luded and sailing out to the pub for lunch we moved onto Potsville (just south of the qld border). We arrived on Thursday and the park was lovely and quiet, lots of room and generally populated by nomads or apprentice nomads. The beach is just 200 meters from us with hardly anyone on it - BLISS. Friday in they rolled, we thought we may have insulated ourselves from the worst of the Warriors/Griswells by picking a site that had nomads on each side but they MOVED (was it something we said ???). Friday night I think we got about 3 hours sleep in between screaming and crying from the extended nursery around us. Hopefully today they will pack up and F --- off back where they belong. Gold Coast tomorrow for a week, RV and Van show is on next weekend, we might stick around for that and pick up some new ideas LOL.

It was time for another sunset

Hello from Yamba which is on the coast just south of the Qld border and where Ron's sister lives. When we rang Helen and Dan to tell them we were on the way they suggested that where ever we go, rain goes to and guess what???? It's raining LOL