Blogs from Gympie, Queensland, Australia, Oceania - page 3

Monkey Magic, Macadamia's, Monopoly, Motor biking and Mulberries. All these M's pretty much sum up our trip to Gympie which was definately filled with lots of R&R... Rest and Recreation! What a wonderful trip! With a hire car - 4WD (our car was in the shop) we set off to visit friends in Gympie to spoil our children for the school holidays.... well we had no other plans or bookings anywhere... so had to do something! With a stop at the Sunshine Coast to visit cousins and family we were spoiled with a wonderful lunch. The little cousins got to play and loved it so much. They happened to be babysitting an axelotle fish for the school holidays so we got to feed it and check it out! Very unusual creature... it was a little slow, ... read more

We are staying in Widgee, a little rural village near the town of Gympie, with Olly's friend Mario's soon-to-be in-laws. Graham is away so it was just us and Margaret. It has been so nice for us not to be in a dorm for a few nights! Margeret is fantastic and has been so good to us. They have a lovely big place set in 50 acres of bush land with loads of tall trees and an amazing array of wildlife. It's really dry here at the moment as there's a big drought in the shire so the land is very brown and the trees are in drought-mode and so have lost most of their leaves. We were woken up by a noisy kookaburra in the morning. There were several kangaroos around but it soon got ... read more

Tuesday 8th November To Uranda Author Steve. Set off south from Mareeba following the Atherton road, continuing to Ravenshoe (highest town in QLD 920m) where we stopped to eat and nothing happened. Continued south, dropping down into scrubland. Road alternated between two-lane single-carriageway, and single-lane single-carriageway. If I saw a road train coming I simply stopped off-road while it thundered past. (Deb: And I just shut my eyes for all 50 metres of each one) We arrived at Undara late afternoon. The pitches had once had some rough grass but now were more or less rough packed sand. We pitched without pegging as we could not. Given the heat and the lack of neighbours we left the top sheet off the tent, with the top being just the fly-proof layer. A fair number of roos and ... read more