Still in OZ, still in Queensland...

Way back in the dark ages, before Bazza even knew me, he came out to the Caribbean to work on Lonestar as Engineer and First Mate. His friends, the Kelseys, got him a nicely inscribed going away present of a compass with some saying that he could always find his way back home with it. As things go, he never received it. They left it under his house before he went, it could not be found, it came back in the mail to them months later, and then they put it away. Heather came across it a few years ago and since we were sporadically in touch, she wrote a letter to go with it and meant to mail it off to him.

10 years after leaving Oz, we have come back and he now receives the compass pointing the way home! I guess it worked in a round about way, after all, he did come back to Oz! Complete with going away card with best wishes and everything. He did have good luck and best wishes, he met ME and the rest is history!

We have a nice Pajero 4 wheel drive. Apparently they don't call these SUV's here and no one knows what I was talking about. NIce vehicle.....

We made our way down to the Gold Coast. Down to the Sand pumping jetty and the sky was, hot, crisp and clear. I found some spectacular pictures...

Surfers eyeing the waves....



Looking down the Gold Coast at the large buildings looks like something out of a science fiction movie to me. Reminescenst of Battlestar Galitica or some such...

The birds were not too bothered by us...



We walked out to the end of the jetty and back. Sat and had ice cream. In that 35 minutes I found Heat Prickle for the first time in my life. I was scratching myself raw. All the time living in the Caribbean and I have never felt that before. Off we went to pharmacies for me to pour medicated powder and aloe all over myself.

Took the parental unit out for another drive. I believe we have now covered thousands of kilometers, but what else are you going to do when it is hovering around 40 degrees celcius and more out?


As normally happens to me, I have so many pictures I can't decide which I like best so I will just put them all up!







Here we have paddington bear and the "evil man who gave me a cold" looking for more tissue to blow that nose one more time!


We stopped to get fish and chips at Scarborough, and to see the shrimp boats... Do you think it is just maybe possible that this table might have FED the birds???


Not us boy! We were not sharing...


The boats and lights were pretty though...



ANother food shot, the next morning I think eating at a sidewalk coffee shop...

We continued driving around Brisbane forests, and stopping in the boiling humidity to take more walks. Apparently I am much more in shape for walking now!




Went up driving by Springbrook, which I thought would be lovely and cool to live at. great falls, views of cloud etc etc. Bazza told me I would soon be tired of everything being damp and moldy....

Even though this is a horrible picture we were still thrilled to see Wallabees in the wild, quite a few of them too!

Had some wonderful scenery...

And had a little Goana looking for food from us. Probably takes us to the end of that day I would say!


Next blog entry is cute and koala bears figure prominently in it!




Must go get ready to go out for another meal.....