The Travelling J's…..,

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The second wheel failure
Peter showing the chooks the before and after…
What was left of the wheel on the van
Charleville bike ride – the airport WW2 sites are at the bottom right.
Cosmos Centre
Cosmos Centre
Inside the drivers cab
Charleville Train Station
Does this need a caption?
WW2 historical site – Charleville airport
WW2 historical site – Charleville airport
WW2 historical site – Charleville airport
A sign in a Charleville shop window
Warrego River – the drought has lasted 7 years this time.
Jo’s first bike this year – Warrego River Charleville
Jo’s plane into Charleville
WW2 Varden Bomb sight shelter – Charleville airport
Peter and Fiona checking out the rain making guns
The road to Quilpie, Windorah and beyond for us….
Mitchell Park
Neil Turner Weir – Mitchell
Our campsite at the Neil Turner Weir – Mitchell
Its been a long time since I had to fend for myself….can you tell?
The Bush
The last beach walk
The list of school students and staff.
At the school site
The Burdekin river
Sunset at Blackwater showground
Belandyo Crossing
Main street at Charters Towers
The Charters Towers stock exchange building
One of the man made mountains from the open cut mines around Emerald
The road…..
Just one of the many pubs…
Yet another man made mountain – this the road goes under it (the tunnel in the distance)
The little national park stop over we had.
The weir near Eidsvold
The Gympie pies….
Look hard for the dentist sign, and the sign above it says?
Over night stop over
Just one log is all we need!
Lunch time stop
Hervay Bay coffee shop – the whales are always there….
The new bike….
And the pie itself!
Bike selfie at Boomi – the pub is in centre distance
Overnight stop near Moonie
Driving into the storms – this photo was taken in Bell.
The Boomi Pub dinner…..
The Boomi pool complex.
An example of the bush reality – although in reality these were expensive compared to some places. $149,000 buys you 2 X 2 bedroom houses.
Boomi had plenty of cars lying around – guys where near the old servo.
In to the ‘Ridge…..
It doesn’t look much, but they have watering the track for a while now…..
Getting ready for the big weekend in Boomi. The long weekend in October if the Australian Mud Trials where they expect 500 to 600 people to show up and run around the mud circuit. These guys were fixing up the 90 year old pavilion. they also said that unless you had 700 horsepower don’t bother….
Not often you see a phone box anymore – this one is in downtown Boomi.
Into daylight saving territory….
Map 2
Map 1 of the return journey
Some of the local transport at Lightning Ridge, note the angle parking, solar panel to keep the battery charged and the (most) important twin Dolphin torches on the armrests for night driving. Clearly an up market version with LED’s in the torches.
Bike Selfie at the Ridge – as has pointed out elsewhere my bike can’t go on this as it is nether green or a car!
If you have seen any of the local ladies around here – here is one of the better ones…..
One of the many of the more modern open cut mines in Lightning Ridge, what is interesting is seeing the old mine tunnels of the opal miners
And from anther day in Cairns….apparently the line marking machine painted over a dead cane toad. The article talked about the frog had croaked……..
On our way out for in the dinner cruise.
That’s us in pensioner mode….sharing a bottle of coke and drinking it of plastic food containers supplied free!
Palm Cove
Ellis Beach
Sunrise on the beach….
Yep…..I agree….I think….
Rock hopping at Clifton Beach.
One of the many bike paths around here. This is part of the Deadman Gully boardwalk/ride.
When I grow up….bikes at Palm Cove having breakfast.
Paddle board lessons at the marina at Yorkeys Knob.
Yep that’s right, that’s my boat to get to the other boat!
Palm Cive
The view from up in the hills behind Ellis Beach, early morning bike ride.
Lots of paddle boarders out on the water.
Jo walking the beach.
Taking photo after photo of themselves.
Some of the beach attractions around here….
Fair warning, it was steep too on the bike.
Bicycles built for 2 times 2.
If you Fi doesn’t look impressed, you could be right.
The crank drive electric tandem bike.
Yet another sunrise…..
An electric fat bike, if you can read the sticker they have 4 still available, priced under $2k, and have a 500 watt motor which would make it illegal to ride on public roads and paths.
Ahhhhhh, webber cooked pizza!
Some of our best evenings had the best social interactions with ourselves!
This car and van were at the Daintree Village, looking to get into the van park. Mum and Dad had wandered off leaving the kids in the back seat playing electronic games. The van itself was nearly 3 times the overall length of the car.
Yet another beach walk, Rebecca and Jo on Ellis Beach
Our campsite at Ellis Beach. Rebecca’s tent at the end of our small site.
Overlooking an abandoned building site on the headland between Palm Cove and Ellis beach. I have no idea what the structure was mean to be but the driveway is really steep and ends in the bush.
The structure from below. The height would be enough to drive a large truck through.
And the end of the driveway.
The southern end of the CREB track. No we didn’t do it this year…..
Ice creams at Emerald creek ice cream shop front. Funny thing is they are in the middle between Mareeba and Koran and do a great trade with the passing traffic.
Just another bike selfie.
One morning we into the city and had a dip in the saltwater pool (The lagoon)
Rebecca had a go at making a pavalova in the webber…it was so good there are no excuses now!
Palm Cove beach wedding (on a Wednesday night). The photo doesn’t show it but the wind was blowing strongly, I hope it went well for them.
The lagoon
The lagoon
The beach from the end of the Palm Cove pier
Bike selfie on Kewerra beach. You can ride the 6 or do k’s from Keweenaw beach, through Clifton Beach and Palm cove.
Anther bike selfie, it seems to me it gets around!
Rebecca and I had a go at stand up paddle boarding. It was difficult in the chop but we got better as we practiced.
JM.
The board.
For some unknown reason this log were sun baking on the pier. The beach would have been nicer.
Our dinner table on the boat.
The girls with their champagne (it’s alleged the Peter was holding a spare one for Fi….)
Our boat.
Cruisin. …..
There is no truth in the rumour that this was Pete’s 6th plate…..
The boat view.
A native spear fishing? Or was that me paddle boarding….
The music man, apart from a short break at one time he played and sang for over 3 hours.
The girls told they could used to this. …I said tough….
And finally a couple of tbr paper (The Cairns Post) headlines. You can see the main headline, but the first para reads: “Far north pig – dog hunters are barking mad over a renewed effort by a Sydney animal rights group to have their hobby dumped in the trough permanently. “
The view at Porcupine Gorge
Blackbraes Homestead – closed off because of asbestos
Blackbraes Homestead – closed off because of asbestos
Roadside camp
My T-Bone vs the rest….
The site of the radar
Mount Surprise and bike selfie!
Copperfield Gorge – the railway and road bridges in the distance
Copperfield Gorge
The pub
Normal Double room
Note the air con…..makes this one the penthouse….
from the pub
Pub Verandah
The view from the pub to Copperfield Gorge
Twin Share at the pub
Looking out to those looking in at the Einsaleigh Pub
I wonder if my car will last as long….
Lunch!
Forsayth Train Station
Oh wheely….and wheel problem!
Cooling off….
Mt Surprise Caravan Park
The GF Toasted sanga vs the non GF one, for once I win!
The road from Mt Surprise to Chillagoe
Out back station
The drive from Mt Surprise to Chillagoe
Chillagoe
Chillagoe’s smelter works
Tom Prior’s collection at Chillagoe
Tom Prior’s collection at Chillagoe
Tom Prior’s collection at Chillagoe
Tom Prior’s collection at Chillagoe
Tom Prior’s collection at Chillagoe
Tom Prior’s collection at Chillagoe
Tom Prior’s collection at Chillagoe
Tom Prior’s collection at Chillagoe
Tom Prior’s collection at Chillagoe
Tom Prior’s collection at Chillagoe
Tom Prior’s collection at Chillagoe
The Savannah Lander at Alamden
The Savannah Lander waiting for passengers.
Eureka Creek campsite
The Bushie….
Tyrconnel Mine camp sight
Near the Tyrconnel Mine head
Tyrconnel Mine head – the mine drops 210 metres straight down
Firemaster Pete in his last appearance with the Jo the understudy
The local cemetery (the Mingogues are in the distant grave)
Tyrconnel Mine from the lookout
Tyrconnel Mine
Tyrconnel Mine
Tyrconnel Mines managers cottage (the original one)
Mt Mulligan and the only real remaining infrastructure
The Mt Mulligan story
Mt Mulligan Cementery
It’s worse than it looks….
From Richmond to Mareeba
The original cemetery.
The golf hole and Dead Man’s Island
Freddy’s lake
A bit hard to see, but these guys are working a roof without safety lines, worse still they are only about 2 feet away from the power line into the house.
Richmond’s main street with the lyrebird just wandering along
Bike selfie outside the museum.
Early morning Richmond, the bloke standing there is flying his drone.
Jo caught coming out of the “yards”
WInton’s main street.
$15 lunch!
Part of the original railway line west of Winton – originally built around 1914.
The lonely grave on the Diamantina River Road
Old Cork Station’s windmill
Old Cork Station
Old Cork Station
Camping at Old Cork Station – next to the waterhole
It needs a wash now….
Dusty driving
Camping at Lochern NP
Thompson River Water Hole
Flat out like a lizard
Camping at Lochern NP
The Lochern Shearing Shed
Lochern Info Centre
Camping at Lochern NP
The grave of the ex soldier
A part of the landscape out here. There was a pub here at one point – and they expected it to be the end of the railway line until it stopped at Longreach
Variety bash cars
Variety bash cars
Variety bash cars
Qantas Museum bike Selfie!
Bras along a fence – not sure why but there plenty of variety in Longreach!

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