Well we are finally moving on tomorrow morning (Saturday). Kath and I have really enjoyed our stay here at Murray Upper and appreciated the hospitality accorded us by the Hughes family. Kath is finding it very difficult to leave her new grand son, but everyone needs to get their life back in order.
We have been working pretty hard on a number of tasks from changing the guttering on the house that was damaged by cyclone Yasi to helping with the mustering, and drafting of the cattle, including branding and castrating of the weaners, to helping replace the shed roof over the last week. Kath has been working in the garden and it is looking good.
I know I have said it before but every day up here you see the damage done by Yasi and the farmers are still recovering from that and the work they had planned has fallen behind. An indication of this is the fact that the sugar cane harvesting is only starting after next weekend, June 28, when it normally starts immediately after the Queens Birthday weekend. The main reason for this is that the sugar mill was damaged by the cyclone and there is a rush to complete repairs.
It is amazing that there are many jobs advertised for jobs like cane haulers, which involved driving cane from the paddock to the cane tram depot, 20 weeks work, very tempting I must say.
I think I have the Spot organised and if you click on the following link and go to the link it brings up you can see where we have been over the last 30 days, I think. I will monitor this to see whether it is working OK and if it doesn't I will save the tracks and put them on another site.
http://whitlowaussietravels.blogspot.com
I will not get political here but I think the government banning live exports completely was a knee jerk reaction and really needed some more thought and investigation.
Tomorrow we are heading to Charters Towers and then on to Mt Isa on Tuesday.
More later, stay tuned.
Friday, June 17, 2011
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Tully to Cairns to Tully
We have had a break for a week in Cairns mainly to catch up with Kath's sister and her grand kids.
We stayed at a caravan park www.crystalcascades.com.au near Redlynch, a suburb of Cairns, and it was brilliant probably one of the best caravan parks we have stayed.
The location was good, about 15 minutes drive from Cairns, the location was quiet, the service great, the facilities clean and, most important for us, there were minimum lights around the park at night.
We had a day out and went to Port Douglas, very much like Noosa but larger, and then went on to Daintree and towards Cape Tribulation, but did not allow enough time to get there and return, so we turned around about 2 thirds of the way there. This was a very enjoyable journey with some interesting lookouts along the way, unfortunately we did not allow enough time to visit all of the side trips, well save for next time.
We are now back in Tully to complete a couple of the tasks we started and to await the birth of Kath's first grand kid, imminent and due tomorrow (Wednesday).
One of the jobs we have to finish is to brand and cut the 100 plus weaners who were taken off their mothers about 10 days ago so that will be an all day job, then probably off to Townsville for a few days.
We are planning to have a few days here after the baby comes home and then turn West and our adventure begins in earnest.
Promised John Golding I would add this one, one of the tractors we have been using.
Another one for John, getting up close and personal. Only three or four of these jiggers have put us over the fenced in the last couple of weeks, they look nice and friendly but out them in a yard and some of them are not.
Kath moved a metal handled rake into the sun and about 10 of these beautiful frogs popped out, they were living in the hollow handle.
We stayed at a caravan park www.crystalcascades.com.au near Redlynch, a suburb of Cairns, and it was brilliant probably one of the best caravan parks we have stayed.
The location was good, about 15 minutes drive from Cairns, the location was quiet, the service great, the facilities clean and, most important for us, there were minimum lights around the park at night.
We had a day out and went to Port Douglas, very much like Noosa but larger, and then went on to Daintree and towards Cape Tribulation, but did not allow enough time to get there and return, so we turned around about 2 thirds of the way there. This was a very enjoyable journey with some interesting lookouts along the way, unfortunately we did not allow enough time to visit all of the side trips, well save for next time.
We are now back in Tully to complete a couple of the tasks we started and to await the birth of Kath's first grand kid, imminent and due tomorrow (Wednesday).
One of the jobs we have to finish is to brand and cut the 100 plus weaners who were taken off their mothers about 10 days ago so that will be an all day job, then probably off to Townsville for a few days.
We are planning to have a few days here after the baby comes home and then turn West and our adventure begins in earnest.
Promised John Golding I would add this one, one of the tractors we have been using.
Kath hard at work holidaying.
Kath moved a metal handled rake into the sun and about 10 of these beautiful frogs popped out, they were living in the hollow handle.
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