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Tully Sugar - A sweet visit!

A pictorial of our visit to tully sugar, a visit I would recommend to any one! Well not this year as it closes this weekend![gi]6

beatit at Lake Tinaroo wrap up

22/10/12/and 23/10/12 We are coming to the end of our trip so I will now just do some wrap up stuff (I don’t want to bore anyone with trivia!)....

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21/10/12 There was a real transformation in the weather today it has gone from cool and windy to hot and calm. Being Sunday the dam was also extremely busy and whilst I had ...

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20/10/12 Today was going to be a sightseeing day as the weather looked very unfriendly for fishing hahahaha. Our plan was to head towards Innisfail hatching our day as we ...

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19/10/12 I woke up feeling a little off this morning and decided not to go fishing; I know this is no excuse because I still had a heartbeat!...

beatit at Lake Tinaroo days 73 and 74

!7/10/12 and 18/10/12 Well it had to happen I’ve had to merge two days into one! I ran out of time yesterday and I am fast running out of time today so this seemed to be ...

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16/10/12 It was tempting to have another dip in the hot springs and another dig for some rocks but we needed to move on....

beatit to Innot Hot Springs day 71

15/10/12 Before we left Mt Surprise we stopped in at the Gem Den as my hope was to do some fossicking whilst travelling – I haven’t done much to date....

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14/10/12 We were off to do the Undara Lava Tubes today and tried to book the 1PM tour from the lodge. There is this fire raging many kilometres away and apparently it ...

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13/10/12 Our departure from Croydon was painless with so little to pack up this morning we were able to get away nice and quickly....

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12/10/12 It was freezing up here and there was a fair wind chill factor as well, it was hard to comprehend the temperature change we had just experienced....

beatit at Karumba day 67

11/10/12 We got up early this morning as it was stinking hot all night and as there was a fair breeze blowing this morning it could mean a morning glory....

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10/10/12 I awoke early and decided to take a stroll to the boat ramp and see if there was anything happening. The sky was overcast and it may well have been another morning ...

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9/10/12 Today really started yesterday and even a few days before that when we experienced power failure. Yesterday while I was out fishing Lis rang Bushtracker to see what ...

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8/10/12 It was a lovely and calm morning with just a hint of a breeze and I’m due at the ramp by 6-50 having had breakfast....

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7/10/12 A nice drive from Normanton to Karumba this morning it is bitumen the whole way and it could not have been flatter....

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A day to forget! Lots of looking and no solutions and off course it is Saturday with no one around. The local auto electrician is away for another week....

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5/10/12 We departed Burketown in high spirits and made our way in the direction of Normanton. There is about 80K of bitumen to the Shire border where it changes to the ...

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4/10/12 If I was any keener I’d have been dangerous! Today was to be my day of catching a big Barra but someone forgot to tell them that!...

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3/10/12 The day started full of promise with just about the whole camp ground deserted by 6-30 everyone was either fishing or flying....

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22/9/12 A relaxed departure today we even had a shower before we left! I said goodbye to our neighbours and we may well catch up with them again somewhere....

beatit to Burketown day 58

2/10/12 It has been a very quiet night and our only neighbours were about 100 meters away, a camper trailer that came past earlier looking to pull up for the night....

beatit to Beames Brook day 57

1/10/12 Being relatively organised we had a reasonable departure time. We said goodbye to our neighbours and Lis drove us out of Adels Grove and road gradually improved as ...

beatit at Adels Grove day 56

30/9/12 Up and about before 7 today and it was cool in fact it was cool enough to use a blanket last night. We had our breakfast and made tracks to Riversleigh “D” site,...

beatit at Adels Grove day 55

29/9/12 Another usual sort of start, you know a little slow of the mark but hey we are taking it easy! A major disaster is looming for some reason the satellite TV is not ...