13 - 18 January 2007
Time to check out the relics. I mean relies. As in long lost relatives that I'll only remember as a box on a family tree. 'Go West' the sat nav said (Daddy splashed out on a proper car) and we passed thru Towoomba on the way to farming country and a little place called Millmerran. These guys stayed in Fleet one night last year and it was our turn to free load off them
Farming is suffering, like it is in the rest of the world. The only way for them to survive is get bigger. Some we saw were HUGE. So many thanks to Ken & Brenda for taking us in. Daughter Linda drove up from The Gold Coast to tell us about her visit to the UK when Daddy was 16. Apparently he went mad saying 'Mum - she sounds like she's on Neighbours'. We also met Dave & Pearl (Dave is Brenda's brother and Pearl is Ken's sister) and their son who 2 days ago had chopped his own knees with a chainsaw. Cool
We saw the most incredible storm. Huge lightning strikes so far away but lighting up the night cloudy sky. It was lighting lightning. Unfortunately the photos of it are cra*p so here's what the sky was like a few hours before
So we left 'The Outback' as Daddy calls (in reality, the real OB was a further 500km West) and drove to Coloundra. These are our hosts. Sue & David. There aren't many photos of them, because they are ugly. No; hang on, it's because the camera broke. "OH NO WHAT ABOUT THE BLOG?" I hear you say? Well here's a crazy thing, Daddy's zoom was stuck and he typed the problem into google. It brought up a forum where at least 20 people said 'bang it. hard'. So he did. And it worked. Too late to take piccies of Australia Zoo though. That's actually a good thing because the guy at the croc show wearing a huge fake Steve Irwin head was scary!
Currimundi beach. We were lucky to get there, because you never knew where Sue's magical mystery tour would end up! Talking of tour's ending up - just Perth and Tokyo to go. Still time to get in a quick swim and to throw David shoe's into the pool ...
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