Making tinnie chook at Pete and Di’s. Translation: tinnie=beer can, chook=chicken.
Anzac memorial at Emu Park. A painting, “The Spirit — Gallipoli Landing 1915” mounted on glass in line with horizon and beach as if at Gallipoli.
Turtle checking out a Dusky Moorhen.
Visit to the Mackay Botanic Gardens. Spoonbill.
On the health front, Ian has acquired some kind of ear fungus.
Highlights from the past week include rainforest hikes, Baron Falls, Kuranda, Atherton Tablelands and Mackay city walks.
We visited cousin Richard and Karen in Mackay. Walked the art trail and had a nice lunch at their place.
Sunset at Bird’s Cafe in Bowen. Nice feed of fish, chips, calamari and scallops — minus one that a seagull swooped down and grabbed from the table. Guess that’s why it’s called Bird’s.
Driving in Queensland you pass endless fields of sugar cane and banana that get bagged up on the tree.
Shots from the car window driving down from the Atherton Tablelands. Magnificent vistas.
Lake Eacham, a crater lake formed from ancient volcano. Oasis on the tableland.
Impossible to capture this massive Curtain Fig tree in a photo. Worth the sidetrack to stand in it’s presence. Chris gave us several ideas for the route through the Atherton Tablelands.
We visited Chris and Marjorie in Kuranda. J and J were good friends with Chris 40 some years ago when we all lived in Guelph. We had a fabulous time reminiscing and catching up at their amazing home.
Barron Falls at Kuranda. Dry season but still beautiful.
Petit Cafe in Kuranda makes amazing buckwheat crapes, this one roasted banana, almond with chocolate. Seriously yum!
These guys everywhere
Twisted vine symbolizes marital union at this marriage sight in the rainforest.
Trevayne, our guide on walk at Mossman Gorge Cultural Centre. He explained many traditions including plant foods and medicinal uses.
Sisyphus James
One of many ferns. Mossman Gorge is rainforest, always a stunning variety of plants.
@cliffordbeshers So they get drunk? Well, that explains their partying. Usually see them in mobs when the berries are on. And in winter they’re only ones eating highbush cranberries, which you’d have to be drunk to eat
@johnjohnston Nice. Much to like in that view and the perspective prompted by your caption
@Denny Nice. I love the little plants, as I try to understand them they prove elusive and a source of the kind of mystery the wilds are full of and a source of my integration with their open intelligence
@johnjohnston this is great and along the line of what I’ve started, only with photos on my daily walk here, occasionally a poetic muse I hope to build on. I saw one day “nothing noticed”… must have been a tough day
@Denny ya, I was blown away when I found this log of maple I’d dragged away when a storm flattened it. I’m going to keep an eye on it, wondering how the shrooms will make out in the cold
@Denny thanks for Poi Dog, interesting band I never heard, dig that tune… spinning more off that record
@BestofTimes thanks for the memory of trip over in September, solstice soon, yeah!
@Miraz thanks, your spring catch made me smile here on the other side of earth
@ericmwalk thanks! Newby here at micro, more to come
@darrenhester thanks! Still in newby mode here, more soon.