Maroochydore and Montville Qld

Hi All

Since the last blog we have had a good look round Sunshine Coast, Maroochydore, Mooloolaba and Caloundra

Has some bad weather over hear and the well-known beach have had a battering most being blown away and the sand has washed out to sea, but other than that also still going well with us.

We head to Montville Qld to look after another small property for two weeks that has 2 horse's and a cattle dog, Montville is like a small English village and has lots of day time tourist's walking around.

The owner Ron and Pat are going bush in their camper trailer and they take their bike but unlike us they do a lot of bike riding around 50 to 100km a day,

Their dogs name is Billy and I take him to the bakery to pick old bread from the day before for the 2 horse's which I have to feed Am and Pm, they are getting used to me or I am getting better at handling them (I bought some carrots to get them on side).

Me and Billy has a 2 to 3 km walk twice a day some time into Montville and the locals all know billy and give him a pat or two some time we have taken him in the car for a day out for walks, one day we took him out to Maroochydore were we had lunch and then took him for a walk along the beach front we tried to on the beach but he did not like the water or the sand, but he is very well behave and is a lovely dog.

Lee feeds the 6 guinea fowl and me twice a day and they just roam around the area and are not caged, unlike me whom can't roam around and I am caged.

We had a good time relaxing and doing small day visits to the other small villages around the area while doing this house sit, We have know moved down to Toowoomba which is large City of about 200,000 people, will add this to are next Blog

We wish you all a happy Easter and be safe.

Regards Jim and Lee

 Lee with one of here Bingo friends

 Maroochydore

 Surfers Code

 Lee at the Medieval Castle in Bil Bil

The Ettamogah Pud

 Billy

Lee and Billy, he does not like the water

 One of the horse's he the nice one

 Us in the Fig Tree

 Lee feeding the good horse

 A poor old cow on a roof in Kitcoy, notice the two false legs

Noosa and Eumundi

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Hope this blog find you all well

I have had some problems with my blog, I think it's now fixed so I am adding two post to this one so I hope this one works OK.

3/2/2013

We have been looking around Tewantin, Noosa, Gympie, Tin Can Bay and Sunshine Coast which are all very nice and lots to see and do, We went and had a good walk up and down Hastings St lots on money around this area of Noosa,

Went on a Noosa Sunset Cruise with two couples from our caravan park it was a great way to look at Noosa from the river and have a drink or two

8/3/2013

We have now just finished doing a house sit in Eumundi for 3 weeks looking after a nice property and 3 dogs, Max, Jess and Sissy two poodles and a terrier, we walked them twice a day morning and late afternoon which was very good for us too.

Only had 3 days without rain (I think the rain gods are after us) but did manage to mow the large lawn and still walk dogs with umbrella up most of the time.

We managed to still see lot of the Hinterlands which is a beautiful place and has lots of small lovely towns.

The owner of the property were over the moon with what we had managed to do around their property with all the rain that Eumundi had.

We are currently in Maroochydore will post again when we leave here

All still going great but still miss all of you, stay in touch 

Jim and Lee

Nice little place on one canal in Noosa

 Hasting st Noosa

 Views of Noosa

 Views of Noosa

 Raining in Eumundi

 Flooding in  Eumundi

 Max, I not that dirty

 Jess and one of his toys

 Max and Missy

 Birds in the Rain

 The Pub

 Rain going in the tank

 Birds feeding in the dry

 Need your gum boots on this walkway  

Rockhampton to Tewantin

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It's been nearly and month since I lasted updated our blog (too busy dashing here and there and to many happy hours)

Bring you up to-date on where we have been and what we have done since the last update,

we stayed at the Big4 Caravan Park Rockhampton for a week and had a good look round the area, the highlights were Botanical Gardens, Chinese Gardens, Mt Archer lookout and the Heritage Museum.

Rockhampton has a small Zoo but is not that great a few dingo's monkeys, croc's and birds but it's Free so not bad for the price.

We then headed to Tannum Sands for a few days but this is where the heavens open up and we were stuck there for 5 nights not a lot to do as to much water around and lots of roads closed.

We heard the Bruce Hwy south was open so we left Tannum Sands and headed for Maryborough but only got to Miriam Vale and were told the bridge had been closed.

There were over 100 road trains parked up on bothsides of the Bruce Hwy in the town centre.

We found out that the road was open to Agnes Water and 1770 and that there were caravan sites available so we headed to 1770 (which I thought was a strange name for a town until to know the reason) Captain Cook landed at this spot on 24th May 1770. We stayed here for a few days and had look round the area which was very nice.

We then headed to Hervey Bay for a few nights and caught up with Noel and Judy for dinner and a few drinks, it was a great night. We went to the markets on Saturday morning and had a good look around need to spend more time around this area next time.

We have booked into the Tewantin Caravan Park for 10 nights which is just north of Noosa Qld (picked-up from Travel Auctions for $200 for 10 nights bargain

                                         Lots of Lawn Mowers

                                         Hole in Road

                                          Boat for sale after storm

                                         Dingo in Rockhampton Zoo

                                          Lots of dead fish in river after storm

                                          Water Falls Botanic Garden Rockhampton

                                          Lee checking out caravan

                                                    Jackfruit

                                          River after king tide Yeppoon

                                          Let me out

                                          Lee points out her name

                                          River breaks banks Gladstone

                                          Maccaw

                                          Lizar did not make it

                                          View from Rockhampton Lookout

Lots to see around here long the Noosa Headlands, Sunshine Coast, the inland hinterlands just to name a few will post in next blog 

Sapphire and Emu Park

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The last blog update had us heading for Barcaldine which has the tree of knowledge on the way out of Longreach a very large lizard cross the road it must have been over 2m long because it covered half of the road, did not get picture but had to swerve to miss it.

We had a good look round Barcaldine but could not find a money tree but we did see the tree of knowledge which has been surrounded by a very large wooden cover in which has been built a wooden wind musical instrument. Barcaldine is a clean well laid out lovely little town and were the Union movement was first founded in Australia.

We then made tracks for Sapphire to meet up with Troy, Kasey and the grand kids which Lee is hanging out for (we had a look at the Blue Gem caravan park but it had no shade and it did not have a swimming pool so we headed for Rubyvale to look at the caravan park there but noticed the sign for Sapphire Caravan Park so followed the road up to the caravan park which was on top of a hill and we were blown away with it so we booked us in for a week and the kids in for 4 days.

We all had a great time in this caravan park watching the owner feed the wildlife, the kids watched from the bbq area, which is a excellent area to have a drink and chat.

We did some fossicking at Armfest mine and the kids found some bits of sapphire and other gem stones.

We also did some touring around the general area and dug up some dirt in the creek in Willows gem fields then took them back to the caravan park and washed it but did not find any gems in the dirt.

We were surprised when Noel and Judy came into the Caravan Park for a few days we first met them in Apollo Bay, we caught up with them later for a drink or two and a chin wag, it was good to see them again

We then headed to Emu Park on the coast where we were to meet up with John and Di from Townsville. The grand kids could not believe the size of John & Di Fifth wheeler

The kids left to go to Sydney and we stayed on for a few days more with John and Di.

We then headed to Rockhampton to have a look round the area.

 The Tree of Knowledge 

 Two Trees of Knowledge one whom must be obeyed  

 Having a few drinks with the gang

One of the many statues in the caravan park

       

We are still having a great time