We have a visitor at our Leyburn campsite.

How’s about a quality miniature, No I mean the tractor.

Now that’s a great old truck, an early Mack.

They sure start the drivers young out here.

Do you like the convertible soft top?

Can you spot my engine?

From a very large tractor.

We catch up with an Antique Tractor Show.

Australia’s largest Japanese garden in Toowoomba.

Just down the road Cuckoo Clocks Galore.

The Carbethon Museum had a real sense of the past.

The trees are a complex structure.

That's 20 feet across at the base!!

The views are breathtaking.

We wander along the forest floor.

Art reaches into the forest.

I start the year off with a get fit attitude!

So a roof over our head,

And some well needed maintenance was done.
Thanks for the creature comforts and the tuition on regreasing drums!
Plus a great plan was hatched to go to Cape York,
at the top of Queensland in July. Now that’s a trip we can really look forward too.

Bruce and Kay are ex Bundaberg cane farmers.

We met them about 6 months ago travelling in their caravan and
they took one look at our caravan and said “Gee that needs a wash, perhaps
Sharon and John would like to house sit for a few weeks over Christmas
and become normal people again” and so asked us to look after their house in
Brisbane so that they could spend Christmas with their families in the country.

Ron and Donna invited us for a Christmas to remember!!

They had been given a special present from their friends who had

just returned from Afghanistan, hence the attire.

It really suited them as they are always so very warm and happy.

Thanks guys, enjoy your upcoming cruise!

But some times they have to be moved.

Occasionally they may lay the eggs too close to the waters edge and
as the female never returns to hatch the egg, it is up to the volunteer
park rangers to move the newly laid eggs to higher ground,
rather than have them swept out to see on the next high tide.
As a visitor, you are shown all the activity and indeed allowed to
help in the transferring of the eggs, and of course this all happens late at night.

Mon Repo is a remarkable turtle habitat.

Just outside Bundaberg, on the coastline, is a wonder of nature. Under strict Park Ranger guidence we where shown how at certain times during the year, the female turtles come ashore and lay there eggs over a foot deep. Anything up to 120 eggs from each female.

A Koala comes to the road side to wave us bon-voyage!

Perched in a tree with out a worry in the world!

A friendly visitor.

Murals showing life in Clermont.

These paintings are on the side of rail cars, parked in the main street.

What it's all about!

This is why you need patience, cause you find stacks of wire and metal in the search for gold.

My mate Nev and I, all set for a days gold detecting.

Basic tools are a detector, headphones, pick, compass, 2 way radios,
water, food, first aid kit, heavy duty boots, leggings to prevent snake bites,
long sleeve shirts, gloves and sun screen plus a huge dose of patients.

This shows how a burning tree can carry the fire.

Notice how the trunk at the base burnt thro and then the tree fell
over the track and so spread the fire and stopped me from going further into the forest

Until this happens, how quickly a fire can travel.