Well, I have some catching up to do.....
From Atherton we went to Tully.
The drive from Atherton to here this morning has been the most glorious, uplifting, spiritual, joyous part of our trip. The beauty of the mountains, tablelands, sugar, bananas. Oh yes I'm raving on.... I guess you get the message. Oh how I love it all. We were here 2 years ago & stayed at South Mission Beach & did all the Tourist things. This year we have thoroughly enjoyed doing a lot of it again. We signed in at the Tourist Information Centre to stay 2 nights at the Showgrounds for free. A great concrete site, toilets, dump and water available. We drove out to beautiful Mission Beach, then out to Tully Heads. We were able to sit outside our van and watch the white smoke from the Sugar Mill. We were facing the main road into the town from the Bruce Highway so watched trucks moving the sugar and the waste products out and the trains bringing the cane in for processing. We went through the mill last trip. It was great seeing the machines cutting the cane, loading it into the train bins and the trains moving it on their special tracks. I went into the town & was silly enough to go into a Homeware Shop that had the most amazing array of gadgets I have ever seen, very high quality with prices to match! No I only drooled, I didn't buy. Then I went to Vinnies & bought a top for $2! 😁.
Then the aromas from the bakery tempted me, well it was afternoon tea time! That's my excuse.
I was telling the sales lady how much I loved the trip from Atherton to Tully, and a man came in and asked for "His daily bread". .......when I went to the car he came up to me and spoke about my expressions of the trip & then added 'You sound as if you are a Christian' & I responded 'So are you' & he asked 'How do you know?' answer, you asked for your daily bread!. He is the CEO of Vinnies & does a lot of the home visits for delivering aid to outlying families. He was telling me about one visit where the woman was amazed that he drove 170k and his response to that was "Jesus went a lot further to Calvery for our salvation." It was a privilege to meet him.
We also had a lovely trip up the Tully Gorge the wonderful variety of trees and every shade of green. Even typing this my very 'being' thrills at the mountains, the trees, the sugar cane, the bananas, and I must include the warmth.
The day before we left Atherton the latest 'Grey Nomad' email came with an article on an over 50s Caravan Park in Townsville........well we changed our plans and have come here , booked for 30 days. It is purely over 50s, Black River Stadium, 27 k out of the CBD. It's only 7k off the Bruce Hwy, very secure, huge sites & $30 per night BUT.....if you book for 30 days, you only pay for 24 😁😁😁😁. It's very community, some people come year after year for the winter. We are testing it.
The facilities are exceptionally good, hot, hot showers, great kitchen set up that any one can use & they put on meals at lease weekly. This Sunday, Fathers Day, they have a chief cooking a meal, $5 a plate! 😁😁. We have booked.
Bye for now, off the 'Happy Hour'.
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