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A life ‘Down Under’!
Castle Rock with Caelus.
So…just this last week Deranie and Caelus have been visiting us. We went for a walk with Caelus in Girraween on Monday and climbed Castle Rock.
Sundown with Tessa.
So…recently Tessa was up for the weekend and we went for a walk at the southern end of Sundown National Park from the Broadwater Camping Area. We walked to see the Permanent Waterhole and also walked the Western Circuit.
Kingscliff.
So…a few weeks ago we went away to the coast for a few days. It was the school holidays and Will had some time off work so we wanted to do something different. We stayed in Kingscliff in apartment in a large Spa Hotel. We were there four nights. Will was still working on his soundscapes for the upcoming exhibition in Wagga Wagga so I spent the first day walking on my own. I walked down the beach to Cabarita Beach and out onto the headland and did some whale watching as Humpback Whales are moving up the coast at this time of year to the warmer waters off the north east coast of Australia. The next day Will and I had a day together exploring Hastings Point and Pottsville where we saw a Koala and a colony of bats. After that I ended up with awful food poisoning or some such bug and after a truly awful night I needed a day to recover in bed. It really knocked me for six and spoiled the break a little. I had to take some time off work when we got home but am feeling better now.
Stanthorpe Art Prize 2026.
So…the latest exhibition at the Stanthorpe Art Gallery is the Stanthorpe Art Prize which is held every two years. Here are some of the exhibits this year…
A weekend in the Bunyas.
So…the weekend before last we went on a sour of the moment camping trip to the Bunya Mountains. It is about a four drive from where we live. We set off on the Friday afternoon and got there after dark and set up our tent at Dandabah camping area. It wasn’t our first time here as we had stayed here years before in 2013 during the Christmas holidays.
We woke on the Saturday to a very misty morning. The ranger came to check on us and siad it would probably burn off, which it did. We spent Saturday walking in the rainforest among the great Bunya pines. Aboriginal mobs would travel for miles in years past to gather here, collect the bunya nuts and feast.
We did the Pine Gorge Lookout walk in the morning then the circuit out to Paradise and Barker Creek Lookout in the afternoon. At sunset we climbed Mount Kiangarow but the sun was setting too far north to see it from there so we went to try and catch it at Koondaii lookout but there was too much cloud on the horizon.
We were wakened in the early hours of Sunday morning to the sound of a dingo howling in the forest. It was a very spooky sound as it echoed amongst the trees and we could here another calling further away in reply. Will got up and managed to get a recording of it. That Sunday morning was the midwinter solstice here.
We packed up and headed home but were glad we had made the effort to go. Walking in the forest and hearing the dingo in the night had just been quite magical!
