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JammerG

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Rockhampton hosts one of the largest Australian Cattle shows and auctions annually' date=' A large centre for the 'man on the land'. Has all the amenities one could need and only 20 minutes from the beach...[/quote']
We left the next morning early (5.30 and MacDonalds wasn't open - They havent heard about 24hour openings) and kept heading north along the coast to Mackay

;) I can't say much about Mackay apart from it is humid and hot but nice just the same and the land around it covered in mangoes sugarcane and other tropical fruits.

On to townsville. Mosquito ridden hole of a place. don't holiday there you will be extremely disappointed. ;) Picture might look good but try being there in the middle of summer between Castle hill and the mountians behind. Hot as all... Castle hill was a defense position used during WW2. They still have the bunkers and cannon turrets there.

We travelled further north, to Ingham and Cardwell... When we reached Cardwell I knew I was almost home... could almost smell it...

;)

The Bruce highway (highway 1 around Australia) runs right along the beach. ****** amazing you can sit on the sand and throw out a line and catch a fish... but be wary of Crocs... Hmmmm
 
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JammerG

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So Innisfail, The town where my Dad was born. This aerial pic shoes the two Johnstone rivers merging... ;)

I was ****** and watched Australia win the America's Cup Yacht race here in 1983 (I was only 14 - 15... Stayed with my fav uncle...

We then drove inland to Milla Milla, what can I say... ;) Beautiful, I grew up swimming on weekends at places like this... ;) Mt Bartle Frere is the Highest Mountain in Qld, ;) 1688 Meters, Just over one Mile, we couldn't see it because it was shrouded in cloud... When we reached Milla Milla my sister stopped at the turn off to Ravenshoe and Mt Garnet and let me out for a ciggy stop. The sun was setting and only half of it showed over the mountians to the west. The half orange disc gilt the bottoms of the clouds, and painted the green fields a golden hue, In the half light i could put my hand up and lose it in the base of the clouds... truly amazing, surreal. I cried and cried I was home in my land in my country, where I belonged...

Onto windy Ravenshoe, Through the mist you could see these things turning on what is aptly named Windy Hill ;)

And onto home... Mt Garnet... It is drier here but still beautiful especially to me!!! Freaky thing it is so unknown I can't even get an image of this place... Freaky...

Anyway I hope you love the pics... You will, I hope, now understand why I have such a passion for the area I was born and grew up in... Will post more about my trip home later... Love you all

Jeanne

 
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Hybrid-Heart

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whoa! that are really beatiful pics! australia is beautiful!

i wish i lived there.. :)

well hope that you had a fine trip

take care

 

JammerG

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Hey Soul, Rockslide, Viking, Hybi... Wow am here to post a little more tonight. Might just post the poems. and look at your journals
 

JammerG

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Nice pics :) Looks like a beautiful place :D Now I want to go to Australia.. lmao :)
Hey Gods and Goddesses... I am just dropping in to say hello while I man the reception desk at work... hehehe lots of fun answering phones. Having gone home I just thought I would tell you a little about the area I was born and grew up in.

I was born in Cairns in Far Northern Queensland. The best time to come here is winter. During summer the place is plagued with box jelly fish (They can kill you) It used to be a small port with and international sugar exporting terminal. Now it is a big tourist area. I moved to a small mining community called Battle Creek when I was 4 years old. It was there my love for the bush, camping, fishing, horse riding and swimming began. Battle creek isn't found on any maps but the creek itself runs into the Herbert River.

When the Tin mining operation was bought by a conglomerant my father became the head electrician Electrical engineer and we moved to another mining cummunity just outside of Mt Garnet ( I could ride my horse to school!!! Yehaa!! ) called Tableland Tin. Here we were closer to town so a whole new world opened up to me. I could walk or ride home from school in the afternoons, stop over at friends places and go to the cafe for Coke spiders. The mining industry bloomed and we had a rollerskating rink open up. Being the type of kids we were, I already had skates and loved being able to skate around this huge place which had once been an old picture theatre. It was good. A wooden floored rink. It was mad.By then I was finishing primary school and starting secondary (12/13 years old). I was also riding horses then, quite alot. I had a brumby, (a wild horse) called Mickey. I used to ride him in barrel and stick races. I would take him brumby running (catching wild horses) and mustering (Herding Cattle) I would go camping, Pig hunting, swimming. It was a great place to grow up. an hours drive and you would be in the middle of world heritage rainforest. It was a fantastic place. Waterfalls that rained out of rocks in the middle of nowhere and lakes with water so clear it was blue. Because of the Great Barrier Reef we didn't get much surf. But we could walk out amongst the reefs and look at the marine life if we wished when we holidayed on the coast around Cairns and further up the coast at Cooktown. Utterly amazing to sit on rocks and take oysters off, rinse them in the water and eat them fresh. or hooking for huge big mudcrabs in the mangroves which we would then bake in the coals of the fire.

Before "Nemo" the movie the only way you could truly see the beauty was to go. The colours of both coral and fish are amazing. It is almost like swiming through a fantasy world when snorkling through the reefs. (Please note. When I did this twenty years ago there were reefs close to shore where you could see everything happening. Now due to pollution and erosion many reefs close to shore along the Queensland Coast are sick, dying or dead. It is a sad thought that even with our technology today that what we once had can never really be brought back)

Anyway, I gotta go and get ready to talk again during my lunch hour. See you guys...

 

twilightcrimson7

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Jammer! good to hear from you again!

Is this your new job or something? :D

wow, that sounds a HECK of alot more fascinating than where I grew up! :eek:

well, take care!

 

misery

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Sounds like a great place :)

I wish I grew up somewhere like that. Makes good old Medicine Hat seem kind of lame, lmao. Yea..

See you later :)

 

shahfire

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whoa. u grew up in such an amazing emviroment. you were really exposed to the nature. its really cool!

even with our technology today that what we once had can never really be brought back
That was so deep jammer and it is 100% true.

 

Friðbjörn

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Yeah I've been learning about the reefs in school. Not a good situation. Something really needs to be done, I mean this is one of the seven natural wonders of the world if you ask me.
 

Hybrid-Heart

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whoa :eek: that place sounds so beatiful!

i want to move to australia!

and yeah it's to bad for the reef.. stupid technology ><

well take care:)

 

JammerG

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Hey everybody...

You know I say Toowoomba is a pretty quiet place, where nothing ever happens. Well this week I was proven wrong. Ravyn and I won't be going on our walks at night anymore... This is why!!!

56 charges laid over triple killings

07:53 AEST Thu Jun 2 2005

AAP

Another 56 charges have been laid against three youths accused of a triple slaying in Toowoomba, including rape, torture and deprivation of liberty.

Scott Geoffrey Maygar, 17, of Rockhampton, and two 16-year-old youths from Rockhampton and Toowoomba who cannot be named, faced Toowoomba Magistrates Court on charges of murdering three men early on Tuesday.

Police said the three teens were charged with another 56 offences between them.

Scott Maygar faces a further seven counts of deprivation of liberty, seven counts of torture, five counts of rape and one count each of rape, robbery with violence and unlawful use of a motor vehicle.

One 16-year-old faces seven counts of deprivation of liberty, seven counts of torture, four counts of rape, as well as attempted rape, robbery with violence and unlawful use of a motor vehicle.

The other 16-year-old also faces multiples charges of torture and deprivation of liberty.

The three have been remanded in custody to reappear in Toowoomba Magistrates Court.

Michael Ross Thompson, 30, and David James Lyons and Tyson Robert Wilson, both 17, were found brutally bashed in a unit block in the south-east Queensland city about 1am on Tuesday.

They had been beaten so badly around the head with a heavy object that police needed dental records to make a positive identification.

HOW SCARY IS THAT. IT HAPPENED EARLY TUESDAY MORNING!!! FREAKY... CHECK IT OUT ON

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=51584

Video footage available.

Will post later, at work now, bye Y'all

 
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