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Just south of Landsborough, Queensland on the old Gympie road is Rocky Creek Scout camp. scattered throughout the 100 acres of pretty much virgin bush, are little hideaway bush camps, just great for Morningbird and Littleflower to tuck away from civilisation for a week, to go future primitive. In this idyllic bush paradise there is high evidence of ancient Aboriginal and colonial culture in this historic place, of human activity stretching back many moons. Nearby is a lush rainforest creek, with ancient aboriginal rock groovings etched in the rocks by the creek, These groovings in the rock are the result of stone tools being forged and sharpened by ancient hands. What a touch stone (pun intended) moment it was for us, to place our hands in these same ancient rock grooves as the ancient ones did ... read more

We left Tinny and the Rainbow, to head back to the Sunshine Coast, to freeload at LaBalsa Park for a few days. Pardon our ignorance, but we always like to check out the history and origins of the places we stay. La Balsa Park at Point Cartwright, has mega significance, in that it was the landing place for the Labalsa expedition. In 1970 a spaniard Vital Alsar led his three multinational companions on an incredible journey to demonstrate how ancient mariners could have sailed and emigrated to the pacific islands from the americas. To prove this theory, they sailed across the pacific in a balsa wood raft from South America to land at Mooloolabah. To commemorate this incredible adventure, the park was named after the expedition, the four journeymen had their footprints set in concrete, their ... read more

Every now, not so much then, we need to throw off these entanglements of crazy society, strip away all the madness of machines, and simply be. We left ranger phil and the party packers, at Rainbow Beach to sort out their stuff and decided it was time for a bush camp, time for Bilbo and Basho to go feral. About 10 ks out of Rainbow Beach, as the road climbed to a distant ridge we spotted a great bush camp, with lots of shrubbery to hide us from the road, but not too far from the blacktop, a little place to hide away for a few days, we had stocked up with food, water and alcomahol. a clearing in the forest, possibly an old log dump site, with excellent distant water views overlooking Coloola Cove and ... read more

And so, our concluding blog on that amazing day on Fraser Island'K'gari, just moved literally into the twilight zone, we were about to encounter a truly mystical experience, incredibly captured on camera by Basho. Picking up from part two, As we were heading from the beach, enroute to the ferry we drove back into the forest for a quick stop at the Spirit Tree. Our guides informed us, that on several occasions, photographs of the Spirit Tree, have been taken, with supernatural phenomena. Many photos were taken by our party including Bilbo, but knowing Basho for the last 24 years, i have witnessed several unexplainable phenomena occur in her presence, such as the rare dolphin kiss experience at Tin Can Bay, which just had to be seen to be believed, have it on video, but unable ... read more

Fraser Island has been on our bucket list for the past 15 years, we kept saying one day we will do it. Father time waits for no one and the years rolled by. Beautifully there comes a time in our precious given days when we grab the stuff of impulse and high adventure to find ourselves, up on the way on the open road, with magic at our fingers, such was this beautiful day when bilbo and basho drove to Hervey Bay, booked passage with Unique Fraser, a small but highly recommended little 4wd adventure company. Two fully loaded 4wds, packed with great driver guides, a beautiful indigenous guide "Nova", a deli of great food, bubbly, beer and much cheer from the touros of the day including bilbo and basho. Our 4wd's boarded the ferry at ... read more