A very belated catch up!

When I looked at the blog I realised I hadn't posted anything all year! Not that we've done much travel this year, but I thought I should put the photos up from Cotton Tree in February before we go up again in six weeks time... The sunsets aren't this good every night, but we never get tired of sitting by the water just in case it's a stunner.

We also had some exceptionally good meals... courtesy of the reduced to clear stickers at the supermarkets. One of our Cotton Tree hobbies is to walk to the supermarkets most evenings to see what we can score😉

Even though there are no photos we did make the most of the water. We enjoyed some long kayaks up the Maroochy River on the days when the wind and tide were right (about once each week) and we had a number of swims. This is the only wildlife photo:

Our only other trip away for the year was to Maidenwell for a few days in June. Dazz had a work retreat at the Bunya Mountains on the Thursday/Friday, so we decided to take the van to Maidenwell and he just drove up to join the team during the days.

A different route home - the Burnett Highway

Since we had work to do we couldn't go straight home. We spent a few days at the Goovigen recreation ground, which is only $10 per night for power. There was a water hole a short walk up the road.

On our day off we went for a drive out to the Callide Dam. 

We tried to find the mine lookout, but didn't have much success. We did however see the mine... from the inside! As we followed the map the roads were looking more and more like they were going through a mine site until we decided that we probably really shouldn't be there. We took a quick photo through the windscreen and then turned around. On our way back out we found the "Stop - Mine site" sign half overgrown, and the gates had grass growing up through them. Not very good security!

There is some great silo art just outside of Monto.

We only did short days on the way home to keep on top of work. We spent a night at Kinbombi Falls and did the short walks down the steps to the lookouts.

Our last night was at the free camp at Wooroolin.

Making the most of our unexpected time in Rocky

We had seen all the things within walking distance of the caravan park, so with our car back we could broaden our horizons this past weekend. On Saturday afternoon the cloud was beginning to clear so we drove up Mount Archer and did the short work around the lookout.

On Sunday we went out to the Capricorn Coast National Park to give the car a good run and make sure everything seemed okay. We started with the loop around Bluff Point and really enjoyed the coastal scenery.

We then drove up to the Double Heads section and did the walk to the lookouts up there.

On the way home we found a dirt road so we could also check that low range was all working as it should. Everything seems fine, so hopefully that's the last of our car troubles for a while!