Month: July 2020

Minerva Hills National Park

Minerva Hills National Park is a only a few kms from town. We headed out the gravel road that winds up through the hills. Stopping at a number of walks and lookouts along way.

When you reach the top you get a good view of Springsure from the lookout.

One of the walks, and the longest, is a track around the hill to a point where you get a good view of Virgin Rock

Not many wildflowers out at the moment, maybe the drought has taken its toll. However lots of these prickly little fellas everywhere.

The Virgin rock looks better from the park below in my opion, but was interesting to see it up close.

Other walks took us to lookouts over Gaps and Gorges. In all a good day out.

This cute little fellow crossed our path on the way out. Just had to stop and take his pic, after all he just stood there poseing nicely.

Outback Drive

When Chris has a day off we usually go for a drive, on this Sunday it was to be a short drive towards Tambo. Of course not on the main road, we took the back roads through cattle station after cattle station.

Nice drive, but quite lost, even had to stop and ask the only car we came across, how far to the main road. The pair in the Ute couldn’t make up their mind if it was about 70 kl or more like 100 !! Great !! Big decision do we keep going or turn back and redo the last couple of hours. Time for me to go for a wander with the camera, it helps with the anxiety of Chris’s getting us lost adventures.

The cattle seemed contented, and before long, like 80 kms long, we passed the station buildings, then back onto the main road.

Nothing like a short drive to fill in a Sunday.

Springsure Qld

Springsure is in central Queensland inland from Rockhampton , a pretty little town with lots of pathways, for walking and an abundance of bird life.

The caravan park is not far from the town and serves as a truck stop as well, so always plenty of activity around. There are about half a dozen permants here and most nights the park is full, now that Queenslands border is open. Also about a dozen onsite cabins. The park itself is adequate for what we want, and I fill in my time looking after Chris who is doing long hours, and when he is asleep or working the birds keep me company.

They haven’t been told about social distancing, and will even sit on my chair or try looking right into the camera if i’m taking photos.

The main attraction for those passing through is a stop at a park with good views of the virgin rock in Minerva National Park

We usually go for a walk and have a camp fire on Chris’s days off. Apart from that I keep myself busy doing photos and I have also finished a queen size crochet blanket, that I started more than 10 years ago. Now i’m tackling a tapestry, that I started 18 years ago !!

Back to the blog!

It’s just taken me about an hour to log back into this account. Been so long since I added any photos, need to get them into some sort of order. Haven’t even sorted our trip of New Zealand, from last October yet. Will get around to them next. Currently we are staying at Springsure in Qld, where Chris is back driving road trains for Kalari. He started work here at end of January, but I didn’t come up till after his break in June. Too much garden to look after at Casino. He brought the caravan home and had a couple of weeks off, before we got our border passes, a must have due to Covid 19, and headed back north.,taking our time and having a couple of nights at free camps on the way.

travelling along the Warrego Hwy, nice to see wide open plains again
It was good to be out travelling again, just love the wide open plains. This photo was taken somewhere along the Warrego Hwy.

We stayed at a nice little park in Warra the first night.

The beautiful old Warra Pub

Morning tea the next day was at another small town . we got talking to a chap and he asked me to look after his dog while he went to get his coffee. good dogie !

Some more site seeing in the Isla National Park, had a wander around and some photos of Isla Gorge. Nice views although it was a bit overcast for photos.

We stoped in Moura, and took a photo of the towns painted water tower. Next it was on to Springsure caravan park, a quick set up, and chris was able to have a well earned beer.