Bribie Island

We left Bargara on Thursday to start travelling south to the Gold Coast as Tania, Greg and the boys are flying over for 10 days and arrive on Monday. Looking forward to seeing our little men, but I am sure we may need a holiday after they leave, as Tania has tickets to most of the Theme Parks and has planes to visit one every second day. Bazza and I will either be tagging along or looking after Cooper while they take Alex and Riley.

We spent Thursday night at Cooloola Cove as I wanted to go into Tin Can Bay by 8am on Friday morning to feed the dolphins. We waited until 9.15 but knowing our luck thought we were going to be disappointed, so we waited patiently and just starting thinking we would miss out when we saw a couple of fins appear out in the bay. The Indo-Pacific Humpback Dolphins have been interacting with residents and visitors of Tin Can Bay for 30 years. It all started with “Scarry” nicknamed due to the numerous rough edges along her dorsal and tail fins. “Scarry” appeared with a young male dolphin, Mystique, believed to be her youngest surviving offspring. “Scarry” has not been seen since early 2003 but her son Mystique and girlfriend “Patch” still come in to the boat ramp to observe humans and be hand fed. I think this has been the highlight of our trip so far, it was a tremendous experience.

The last few days we spent at Bargara were very windy and Thursday night we started getting a few showers, so by the time we left Tin Can Bay the weather had certainly changed for the worse. We travelled down to Bribie Island in drizzly misty rain, and then it rained on and off all night. Today it has been raining constantly so we were suffering from cabin fever, decided to go to the local pub for a meal and there we were entertained by the locals with a Karaoke night.

Tomorrow we leave Bribie Island and travel to Southport where we are booked in at the Broadwater Caravan Park for 10 days, we should catch up with Maree and Brian as they are staying at the same park.

Air Show Wide Bay Budaberg

Bargara

Back on Blog again !
Since the last time we updated our Blog we have been home to Tassie to meet a dear little granddaughter Olivia. It was great being home to catch up with family and friends but we were certainly counting down the days until we went back to the warmer weather.
We returned to the Gold Coast on the 29th July spending that night with our friends Alison & David before heading off with them to the Sunshine Coast and back to Cooroy for a few days. While we were there we had a trip up to Maryborough to check out an RV friendly Retirement Village, it was a great set up with some very good facilities. If they had one like it in Tassie I am sure we would be very interested.
We left Cooroy last Thursday and headed further north again to Bargara Beach where we are staying for the next two weeks.
Since being here at Bargara we have had a couple of games of bowls, the rinks sure do take getting used to, as they are very fast ! We certainly do not get to take home any prizes for the most won ends! Hoping that the experience gained will help our game when we return home.
Last weekend was the Cane to Coal fun run that starts at Bundaburg and finishes here at Bargara, there were 500 entrants in the 15klm and 2,500 entrants in the 8klm so big influx of super fit sweaty people(Bazza sure did enjoy the Gym Bunnies), as the finish line was opposite the caravan park. I think Bazza is living a different dream !!
Yesterday we had a visit from Carleen and Rex they are staying at Hervey Bay which is about an 1 hour south of here. It was great to catch up with them and we may do again when we move further down the coast.
The Grey Nomads are easily entertained, as yesterday some tree fellers came into the park to drop a couple of trees that were a bit suspect, after the previous incident when we were last here. The poor guys had people bring their chairs and cameras and were centre of attention all day.
This afternoon we are off to Burnett Heads which is only about 10mins away to catch up with more Tassie people Sue & Mike who also live in our area.

CRIKEY !

THINGS GO WHOOSH IN THE NIGHT

I thought we had a new toilet installed without my knowledge as I flushed the toilet there was an almighty whoosh! Must have an air vacc flush !
NO! Only to look outside to see a tree had fallen near by. I sent Bazza out to inspect, as it was only 2.45am! There were some very lucky caravaner’s immerging from their vans, to find the only damage was the loss of an awning also a few dents & scratches. No injuries!
So scary to think there was no warning beforehand, and it was not as if we had bad weather conditions to contribute, only a little rain yesterday.

Bargara

We have been at Bargara for 9 days now and have settled in quite easily. First day we got stuck into washing all the dust off the car and the outside of the van, the night man duties and of course the washing. We then settled into relax mode, going to the beach, bike riding, short walks, bowls and dining out. We met another couple that had a slide on camper that was just behind us and they were from Bellerive, Graham and Gladys also play bowls for Rosny. We had a lot of acquaintances in common because of bowls, and the fact that Graham had been a Manager at Frogmore Creek and he used to do consultancy work for MyState (Islandstate), both of these places Denise once worked. They were very easy people to get along with and it was sad to see them leave, but that’s caravanning.

We had a short tip out to Woodgate Beach today on the recommendation of several fellow travellers, but it wasn’t what we expected and will not include it on our list of places we will stay at. As the weather today is overcast and a bit cool it probably did not do anything to give us a good impression of Woodgate, I am sure if we returned on a beautiful sunny day the beach would be very inviting.

Once again we have changed our minds! We will not be travelling to Seaforth after returning from our week in Tassie and have booked to come back here to Bargara for 3 weeks to continue where we left off with the RR. It will save us 4 days of travelling up and down the Bruce Hwy and probably 3 tanks of diesel.

We have one more day here before heading to Tin Can Bay for a night and then onto Cooroy where we will leave the van. We will then travel to the Gold Coast to Stay with Alison and David and will do some baby shopping at Harbour Town. We will also have our whooping cough vaccinations as suggested by some very protective parents.

Bargara Beach

Bargara Beach Caravan Park

Woodgate Beach

New Granddaughter Olivia

Olivia was born on the 2nd July a little earlier than anticipated,we will be flying home for a week to have a cuddle on the 23rd.

Theodore-Calliope-Bargara

We left Miles and headed for Theodore over the Great Dividing Range which is 400 metres above sealevel, according to our Tassie hills is not so great. We arrived at Theodore and set up at a free camp near the river there was a nice park opposite with shower and toilets. It was very crowded and we were lucky to get a spot, as some set up there for weeks. After settling in which wasn’t hard to do seeing that we had left the car and van hitched up, we rode our bikes 2klms into town for a look around, not a great deal to see. It was interesting to see how the town has recovered and cleaned up after the floods considering that most of the town was inundated with water. On our way back to the van we stopped off at the pub because we were hot and thirsty for a nice beer & shandy. We were able to view some photos of the flooding of the town, the barman explained to us how the pub was spared by only a few metres from being flooded. Outside the pub in the middle of the street there had been 2 light poles which had been removed to allow access for the 8 helicopters to evacuate the town, witches hats still remain upside down in the holes where they once stood.
We then moved onto Calliope where we spent the next 2 nights, then headed off to Bargara Beach Caravan Park for a week to enjoy the warm weather, beach and also to seek out a decent restaurant after being inland for all this time.

Miles

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Today we had a bit of a lay in and a casual breakfast, and after getting the morning report on our new granddaughter we set off for Miles at about 10.30 to look at the Heritage Village. The village is well laid out with the usual shops and buildings of the period with lots of machinery and many other items of a time gone by. It took us about two and half hours to look around and could have spent a lot more time there if we had wanted to. It is a well worth while attraction to see. We then fuelled the car and brought some lunch to have down by the river and then head back to the park for a sit and read in the sun.