Tuesday, 9 April 2013

I shall finish this trip with this one. It is also taken at Nobby.  It is Dad and Dave's Historic Rudds Pub. It is in Steele Rudd Country. Across the road is a free camp spot and there were eight vans in there when we came past. Renovations are being done to the pub. It has new owners. We are having two nights at Toowoomba and probably a couple of nights at Bauple meeting up with the Wide Bay Wanderers Group at Bauple before coming home.
This is on the tourist route. It is a place north of Allora called Nobby . It has a little village. These are two of the shops there.
This is Queen Mary Falls at Killarney. They are a beautiful sight and a lovely walk on the mountain side  to see them. Took a walk to the cafe opposite the car park.  They have a caravan park behind it.
Took a drive to Killarney and here we visited Daggs Falls. At Killarney the mountain is falling away from floods two years ago and they're just starting on it to fix it up. We encountered the same thing on the road from Coffs Harbour to Glen Innes. The mountain road was half a road on the mountain and boy it looked dangerous! Killarney has an Abbatoir.As we drove through to Allora and Toowoomba we crossed red water flowing in creeks and we had to detour. When we stopped at road works we were told they were fixing up the Toowoomba Road.
This is the Big Apple at Stanthorpe. We visited it and came away with cheeses. Col found a lactose free one. They had cheeses from England and Germany as well as the local ones.
This is apple picking at Stanthorpe. We were at the right place at the right time to capture this one.
This is Edgars Lookout.
This is Dangars Gorge. If you look hard at the photo just under the rail is the waterfall.
This is Conifer Country Nursery. It is a Nursery with a difference. It has old rusted machinery. This is on the way out to Dangars Gorge.
This is the glass houses that grow tomatoes hydroponically at Guyra.  It is one of the few sites in the world conducive to year round tomato growing.Twenty hectares of Blush glasshouse in the temperate Guyra climate means Blush currently produces more than 12 million kilograms of premium truss tomatoes per annum, delivering year round consistency in terns of quality, flavour and availability.  Guyra has the best combination of cool summers and high winter light to produce the best tasting tomatoes is at 1,330 metres altitude. It has less than two days over 30oC per year on average.It has a council that supports the Glasshouse and has a community that support the Glasshouse.
This is Boundary Falls. They are between the two trees in the middle of the picture.
This is Raspberry Lookout. Wild Raspberries used to grow here many years ago. Aborigines probably picked them.
This is the view from Heframs Lookout.  People had red sauce plastic tomato bottles hanging in the trees by the road side.
This is the bridge over the Manning River. It is on the road from Coffs Harbour to Glen Innes. They have a caravan park here and live music too!
This is the bridge over the river at Grafton.One dark red tan coloured dingo crossed the road in front of us.

Thursday, 4 April 2013

Today we passed the Big Banana. Plenty of bananas are grown around here. There are also a lot of igloos covered in white plastic in which they are growing fruit and vegetables. We hope to be home in about two weeks time. Our trip is slowly coming to an end.
Many of the narrow bridges down here look like this one. They have a heavy iron structure. Thone River has a narrow bridge that looks like this one.
This is one of the best photos we have taken of the endangered snow leopards. They were sitting under a large log in the shade. There were two of them. This is at the Billabong Koala and Wildlife Park at Port Macquarie.
This is the Billabong Koala and Wildlife Park at Port Macquarie. Here we saw koalas, kangaroos, monkeys, monster crocodile, endangered snow leopards, emus and a brogla. We did the talk with the zoo keeper at the monkeys, then went and did the snow leopard talk with the keeper and lastly did the talk with the zoo keeper with the koalas. They were lovely. I even patted a dingo.
This photo was taken on one of the mountainous roads. It is between Walcha and Wauchope. The trees are so tall and straight. There are even some tree ferns thee too!