(Temporary Backup) Heading North Starting the trip...Proper!

We headed out of Brisbane heading for Bundaberg where our first service was booked. 

Both still recovering from a good dose of Aussie Flu it was good to have our diesel heater and big brush (stone guard ) fitted and starting out again!

I committed a cardinal sin ...in a moment of complete stupidity I filled up our Deisel tank with 29litres of petrol

 We were in Mapleton at the BP pump ...arrrrgggh!!!!

We did not start the engine and had to get the “Wrong Fuel Rescue” guy to come out and pump us out and replace/refresh the tank with deisel.  

This sign was at the Maleny Showgrounds....and a sad state of affairs

 We visited the Gin Gin show ...still can’t really get over the colour of the earth!

Man that’s some powerful log cutter!

Kids pat the animals time...its the same whatever country your in!

These are Brahman Cattle...I took some photos then the farmer came up .....

and chatted to me about the breed and the various problems with droughts and feeding grain to cattle!

After our first service at Bundaberg Jayco we headed down to Maryborough to visit Ross & Rene, friends we visited last time.

It was good to catch up andbe able to use some of his tools for a few jobs on the caravan and canopy.

Here I am fixing up the caravan wobbly table support.

I lengthened the slot to get better purchase...

And hammered in this shim made from a left over deisel heater bracket.

So far so good ... silly little jobs like this on the road take longer,

 and improvisation is to the forefront.

Putting some shelves into my wardrobe cupboard and had to buy a $2 saw to cut the hardboard to length

 A visit to the Maryborough Market with fresh Dragon fruit grown in near Childers, Qld.

I was doing some busking when I was handed my biggest ever Hat ......

1,000000, with this million dollar question 

“Will you go to Heaven” etc etc. Please repent (turn from your sins) read your bible and obey it every day.

Given in the true Aussie spirit freely and with myrth!

At the counter at the Iconic camping  Boating Camping and Fishing store (BCF),

was an equally iconic Aussie ... dunno what would have happened to me if he saw me taking this photo...tho!


Seen at Supercheap Auto ....don’t has just love the Aussie vernacular

Maryborough CBD on the Train Line

Ron proudly told me that every Mens Shed should have a sign like this.

Being of a delicate scottish nature I asked what that meant!....

 The reply was “Do I Look Like I Give A F....k!

This particular Shed did indeed have its own thickness sander and a small engineering section in the smoko room.

They make coathangers using the old railway spikes and Camphor Laurel timber.