Our Last Day of Exploring

You can all breathe a huge sigh of relief, today was our last full day of traveling, and possibly the last blog entry, apart from a wrap up one I’ll publish on the way home (internet permitting).

Tomorrow we are planning a visit to an aviation museum, then it’s off to Lyn’s cousins for a couple of nights. Hopefully we will also meet another cousin from S. Africa who  has been visiting her children in China and Australia, as well as a cousin who may be flying up from Tasmania.

This morning we headed our after breakfast to a boardwalk that was on the “hummock”. The hummock seemed to be the nearest thing resembling a hill, for miles around. As well as providing a view and some exercise, there was also a cache waiting for us!

At the lookout there is a Memorial to Squadron Leader Bert Hinkler, the first person to fly solo from  England to Australia in 1928, taking 15½ days!

We found some (yet to be identified) red flowers on the tack.

Although the photo below doesn’t show it too well, the soil in the areas was very red in colour.

We took to the back-roads to avoid the Bruce and to see more of the Australian (populated) countryside. I have to apologise to Australia as the bakeries were open today, evidently things are a little more progressive in the larger towns. Certainly couldn’t let the opportunity of possibly the last cream cake slip away (again!).

Driving was through some nice twisty, hilly countryside with cane sugar and mangoes as the main crops. We stopped for more geocahes and got 4 out of 5. Lunch was fairly easy to find for a Sunday, although I did have to trade my standard meat pie for a kebab!

We continued on to the hotel through a couple of heavy rain showers which brought the temperature down to 22 for a while, but then it climbed back to 25. One nice thing about the rain, it filled the air with the scent of eucalyptus. 

We arrived at the hotel just after 4PM. As I said above, depending on the degree of socialising that takes place over the next couple of nights there may or may not be a blog.