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20210629 Qld Mareeba

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 20210629 Turning up at Jeff and Moni's home in Mareeba for a few day to catch up with dear old mates, the last time we caught up with them was in 2012 when their kids were far from driving and were very adventures, now they both have a licence and doing the teenage thing.  Mareeba, is the largest town on the Atherton Tablelands and it lies at the heart of the tableland's agricultural activities and is surrounded by coffee plantations, mango and paw paw farms, avocado farms, macadamia nut plantations as well as sugar cane fields and orchards specialising in pineapples, bananas and cashews. Ok boys, up ya get and show me how this works, now just hold that pose until I get my camer set up, hold it, these clowns will do anything I ask. I'm thinking Jeff should have been on the other side by the way he's leaning to the right.   WHOS THE FAT ONE 😂  Now if Jeff jumps, Des will surley fall, Jump Jeff Jump.😅 There's somthing a miss with this photo, arr that's right t

20210625 Qld Trinity Park

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20210625 Trinity Park is a town situated in and around Kuranda and Yorkeys Knob and is a hop skip and a jump to the Islands off Cairns and the Great Barrier Reef, and home to my son Ken. Now each time I've visit my son I have been lucky enough to return home in one piece so it should be interesting to see what sort of shenanigans we can get up to this time. Our first night at Trinity and Kelly turns up to greet us, it's been a long time coming and it's always great to catch up with this cheeky babe. 20210626 We had a great night full of laughter and much to drink, as we all do when we all get together, but tonight will be the big test with Dave and Trudy and Teresa and Jo joining us for the evening, now things could get messy, no! things will get messy. The Bluewater Hotel offers a wonderfull view of the marina and surrounding mountains, and a good variaty of delightfull dishes, but be aware of the dredded Lasagna.😬 At the Bluewater Hotel for lunch and to catch up with my

20210623 Qld Tully

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20210623 The time has just turned 10.09 am as we enter, Tropical North Queensland, a tropical region stretching from Cairns to the Torres Strait. Right in our back yard is the magnificent Coral Sea of the Great Barrier Reef off the coast, and lets not forget our outstanding, World Heritage listed tropical rainforests that are scatted throughout the region with Cairns being the largest city. Stopping at Tully brought back some creepy memories of my the last time here in 2007 when my son Kenny and his mate decided to take my sister and I, white water rafting down the Tully Gourge, well! what a desarster that turn out. To cut a long story short we had just started down the gourge when we hit a steep spot that instantly sandwitched the boat and threw us all out and we scrambled for what ever we could grab onto, at that stage the gourge was running at abour 95%, the most it had run in years. Lucky for us we had a spotter behind us who managed to coax Lisa of the rock she was clining to.  He