Wednesday, 23 July
2014
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Waiting for the teacher |
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A music chart - must mean something to someone! |
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Reminiscing |
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Enjoying the campfire |
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A "miner" bird |
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Anyone want to watch "Gone With the Wind?" |
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Funny place to park |
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One happy Cat |
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Obviously had to wait a long time for an appointment! |
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A restorer's delight |
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Sanitation Wagon - ie night cart |
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Might need longer legs |
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A Furphy |
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Grandpop had a black one, just like this |
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Cat Heaven |
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Put some effort into it! |
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1935/6 model |
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Sanitation wagon may be needed soon |
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Hasties' Swamp |
We had a “Big Day Out” yesterday and drove all the way to
Herberton, on the Atherton Tablelands.
The weather was superb, with clear, blue skies and no breeze; temperatures
on the Tablelands are a little bit lower than Cairns, but still very pleasant.
Our main reason for going to Herberton was to visit the Historic Village; we spent a few hours here
enjoying all the exhibits, which ranged from the typical businesses found in a
small town in the early 20th century, as well as many, many, many
old tools and machinery. A lot of the
items on show were very much “boys’ toys.”
We enjoyed lunch at the tea rooms before crossing the suspension bridge
to the camp and the John Deere display.
The village was beautifully maintained and well worth a visit.
Our next stop was the Spy and
Camera Museum
and what a wonderful experience this was and well worth the money.
The owner conducts individual tours,
explaining out all the cameras on show – from the very first cameras, to
miniatures, to spy cameras (even a camera which looks exactly like a button!)
and many made during the first half of the 20
th Century.
We spent over an hour here, enjoying both the
camera and the owner’s sense of humour.
There was a large fire burning in the bush behind the
township, but there was no sense of panic in the town (the locals outside the
local just seemed interested in all the smoke), so we assumed it was a
controlled burn.
On the return to Cairns,
we stopped at Hasties’ Swamp, near Atherton, not expecting to see much birdlife
in the middle of the afternoon. However,
there were hundreds of magpie geese in residence, as well as plenty of wood
ducks and moorhens.
We also had our first game of bowls yesterday evening, our
first game since leaving home. It did
take a bit of adjustment, bowling on a green running at about 20 after the much
slower grass greens. We both did well,
and Les came home with a $30 meat voucher.
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