Gladstone

Hi youse guys.

Annie and I are packing up for the town of 1770 this morning. After we left Rockhampton we drove to Tannum Sands.

I had called in there about 25yrs ago and expected it to be the same. (What a fool!)

What was once a really small little seaside holiday town is now suffering the worst form of brick venerial disease. Absolutely overun by little boxes made of ticky-tacky, along with all the infrastructure, as they call it.

A learning experience for Annie and I though. Never to expect it to be like it was.

The caravan park which boasted sea frontage was divided from the sea by a road and thick mangroves. Very dissapointing.So we headed back to Gladstone.

It seems all the seaside caravan parks are falling victim to greedy developers.

So here we are in Gladstone,an amazingly small town, ( unless we didn't really see it all, though we didn't really try ) Very drab and ordinary.

Annie and I fitted straps to the van so we could roll up the awnings instead of threading them through the sail track each time. ( see picture ).

The town of 1770 boasts a van park with absolute beach frontage, so we hope that''s the case. If that fails we will head to Agnes Waters. 

  

Archer Park Steam train and tram Musuem

Archer Park Station in Rockhampton is now a museum with lovely old trains from a bygone era and even a steam tram.

 

Well worth a visit to see all the memorabilia.

The Mafeking Bell

The Scout hall at Mt Morgan has the Mafeking bell made from pennies (either 8,000 or 80,000, not sure).

The copper bell was made at the mine smelter.

Again Mafeking gets a mention as the founder of the Scouting movement, Lord Baden-Powell, commanded the seige of Mafeking.

Unfortunately the scout hall is no longer in use.

 

An interesting monument

During the tour of Mt Morgan we were taken to a newly constructed swing bridge dedicated to the soldier on the plaque. The first Australian to die in Imperial service at Mafeking during the Boar war.

Australian Army engineers erected the bridge and dedicated it to Private Jones.

 

At the general office on the mine site was an honour roll listing the large number of mine workers who also served and died in the same conflict.

Big Thing

The emailing to Blogger seems to work. The previous post is one of Rockhamptons many beautiful buildings.

 

As always on the hunt for "big things" we came across the bull  statues at the southern end of town on our

way to Mount Morgan. The featured bull is a Santa Gertrudis another is a Brahman.

 

Our day trip to Mt Morgan proved to be interesting. We opted for a 2.5 hour guided tour of the town and open cut

gold mine site. The town like many old gold mining areas has seen better days.

 

 

Emailing: 101_0719

 

Just a test ( email to blogg ) from Rockhampton. Because of our weak wi fi reception we have been having trouble blogging. Marcia the compu guru has given us another option.

Instead of going into our blog and blogging, we now email our blog to our blog. Got that? Let's try!  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Yeppoon continued

Annie and I have decided to stay another day in Yeppoon. It's so sunny.
Today is our 2nd wedding anniversary so we will be having a nice lunch in town.
The rock in the picture (when you get close to it) is quite amazing, of the most unusual formation, tilted and in layers.
For those who don't know, Paul has arranged 2 weeks timeshare at the Don Pancho Resort at Bargara Beach, south of Bundaberg. We are really looking forward to our stay and I hope to catch a fish.
Tomorrow we head out for Rockhampton. According to Tourist Info, it appears to be a place of interest, lots of attractions and heritage sites.