Home Again

 Awoke to a glorious morning in Mundubbera, clear skies & no wind. An uneventful trip home, with a short stop at the Biggenden bakery for vanilla slices & coffee.

Now the monster cleanup.

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                                              Our last sunrise for this trip.

                                                       Morning tea in Biggenden.

                                            Ready for the great cleanup.

Emerald to Mundubbera ( Almost home)

 Quite a few places covered since the last post. I managed to crank out another drone video for this post, of Virgin Rock outside Springsure. Since the last post the route we took was -: Emerald - Springsure - Rolleston - Bauhinia - Moura - Banana - Theodore - Cracow - Eidsvold - Mundubbera.

Tomorrow we will get home after a short drive. I contacted Avril to see if we could catch up & she kindly came to see us at a windy Jacees park camp it was great to see Graham & Avril & she also organised the extended family for a short visit. We greatly appreciated this wonderful gesture & it was great to see Jasmine, Nigel, Brendan, Shoni, Harper, Nevaeh & Connor. Thanks so much as I know how busy you guys are.

The last night is always a sad affair, as we know the current adventure is over.

The remaining 4 of us spent some social time in the caravan with Rocko harassing everyone, as it was too windy outside. This was the first time on this trip that the weather prevented us from being outside in the evening.

                                     Drone video of Virgin Rock. Can you make out the virgin Mary ?

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                                                   Near Eidsvold.

                                                                      Theodore.

                                                                      Moura open cut mine

                                                Memorial for miners killed on the job.

                                              The first coalseam gas fraking outlet.

                                                       Miners memorial.

Moura

                                       We stayed at the free camp on the Dawson river near Moura

                                                            Virgin Rock.

                               Emerald, morning walk  around the botanical gardens.

                                      Floating bridge at the botanical gardens.

                                                          Miners memorial.

                                                                        Cracow

         We had a couple of hours with drinks & dinner on the verandah of Fred Brophys pub in Cracow.

                                                 Cracow is looking a little sad.

                                                     RM Williams centre at Eidsvold.

                                 We paid a visit to Yvonnes' grandparents grave in Mundubbera

                                                     Jaycees park overlooking Mundubbera.

                                                 Pano crossing the range.

                                                                        Miners memorial.

Saphire to Emerald

 A very short relocation today, only about 50 Klm to Emerald, where we had a major restock of food as we were out of just about everything.

We are once again in the free camp under the railway bridge at the botanical gardens, where we have stopped a couple of times before on various trips. A very handy but noisy location. Tomrrow we will probably make it to Moura via a stop at Virgin rock. We will have to start doing some longer runs or it will take us years to get home.

Rocko met a few dogs here at the gardens but they were all quite ugly, none were as handsome as our Fabio of the dog world. Even though these dogs were as ugly as a hat full of arseholes Rocko did not discriminate & happily played with any of them, which just showed how thoughtful he is.

                                                        Drone video of Lake Dunn.

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A parrot feeding on nectar in a Red Silk Cotton Wood tree in the park in Emerald.

            The biggest Van Gogh there is.

                                       A metal Dragon in Emerald.

I took this pic with my right hand while feeding them with my left. Taken at our 2 night camp in Saphire at the gem fields. Please not this is specially formulated bird feed designed for parrots, I would NEVER feed them bread.

                                    Yvonne makes some friends.

                                                                       Selfie

                                                     Saphire sunset.

                       Morning tea at the Strudel house in Rubyvale.

                      Our mining operation which netted copious saphires.

                Another morning tea at the park in Emerald.

              PM drinks at the Botanical gardens  camp in Emerald.

                                        The Fabio of dogs.

                                             Botanical gardens at night.

               Our final haul of Saphires, a veritable Kings ransom. (PBS)

                             A bird hide at the Saphire wet lands  (PBM)