Blogs from Maryborough, Queensland, Australia, Oceania - page 2

In just over 12 hours, Don and I will be jetting our way to England and the Titanic Memorial Cruise along with good friends Debbie and Damian. On Sunday, we'll board the Balmoral, one of the Fred Olsen Cruise Line and sail to Cobh, Ireland, where we spend a day exploring the area. Then we set sail again to trace the path of the ill-fated Titanic, except that we don't hit an iceberg and don't go down! Instead, at exactly 100 years to the day, we honour those who died in a memorial service over the site. From there it's on to Halifax, Canada, where the bodies were buried and then to New York. We'll spend a couple of days there before winging it back home. I'm really looking forward to sharing our photos and stories ... read more

Our first blogging experience. It will be interesting to see if we keep it going. The challenge will be to write something vaguely entertaining that doesn't read like a scientific paper. There's a pretty good chance that all writing will be done by Deb. We've started this blog early so that we can make sure that Deb's mother can access and read it. It's officially Day 1 of Deb's holidays and we are in Maryborough, Queensland. Perhaps not the most direct route to Turkey but it is where Deb's mother lives and where we are leaving the dog for the next 7 weeks. We arrived here two days ago but so far have done nothing. Deb came down with a bad cold on the day we left and so has spent the last 2 days moping ... read more

june 12 seems my last blog recorded as may. oops. june 13 walk with twitchers. noisy friarbird, little wattlebird, rainbow lorikeet, wagtail, magpie lark, turtle dove, little friarbird, magpie, brown honeyeater, blackfaced cookooshrike, bluefaced honeyeater, white ibis, masked lapwing, striated breast/yellow beak(unidentified), variegated fairywren m/f, redbacked wren, whitefaced heron, female roufous whistleer, crows, currawong, grey butcherbird(call). 10,000 stickers arrive!!!!! grey butcherbird as i packed car riverside lake wayba drive. everything fit snugly. 14,000 on board. june 14 terrific in tewantin. extraordinary spruik. massive response. beautiful clear sunny dry day which means nights are chill. repacked car. plastic bags for stickers so organic solvent doesn't fill car at night and choke me. june 15 morning one hour spruik noosaville market. to mooloolaba for race wit... read more