OUR RECENT HOLIDAY TO QUEENSLAND.

PART 1.
Well, I suppose some may have noticed I've been a bit quiet lately.  We went away with our caravan at the beginning of August & I had limited internet access, so decided I'd do anything necessary & not worry about blogging, which I'd do as soon as we arrived home.  Alas, I managed the Scavenger Photo Hunt, then had both internet & laptop problems, so now I think I'd like to catch up with a bit about our holiday before the next photo hunt arrives.  I was "k.......d" (exhausted), when we got back, so even sorting the photos was delayed.  Now I'm halfway through quilting 2 customer quilts, which has also been frustrating me. 
Sunday afternoon, quite cool & with hubby watching car racing on the telly, I'm sitting here trying to work out what to write & which photos to use.  Here goes............

DAY 1
We left home early, headed out of Melbourne, making for Tocumwal on the Murray River which is the main border between Victoria and New South Wales.  Towing a caravan limits my photo taking, so not much till we reached the lovely small town of Tocumwal which sits on the NSW side of the river, where we stayed for the night.

A rest area along the highway, where there is shaded parking area & toilets. Convenient for travelers in Australia due to the long distances traveled.

Murray River at Tocumwal.

The BIG Murray Cod.

We have a passion here to have BIG representations of 'things"  & the one above is a native fish species that lives in the Murray River.

Some wonderful murals on the front of the local IGA supermarket in Tocumwal.  Very representative of our countryside from yesteryear.

I spied this whilst we were on our walk around town & just had to snap it.  Along the top (if you click on it you can see it better), it reads National Bank of Australasia Ltd.  When I started working in the bank in 1966, this is what it was called, though I was employed in Sydney & not this branch.  It is now called NAB.  Useless information, I suppose.

                                This beautiful old tree was near the park & displayed a plaque.

And then, wondering what this was as we ended our walk.............

 Nearing the caravan park, (our car can be seen in the top left of the above photo) & approaching the long fence I could see movement.  Was it a dog? 

NO!!!!  It was these 2 kangaroos, who seemed to be fascinated by me too, snapping away madly.  

DAY 2 & 3.

Only a few photos taken these couple of days, due to aforementioned travelling restrictions & most of my followers not knowing the geography of Oz.  We traveled up the Newell Highway, west of the Great Dividing Range (a range of mountains running top to bottom on the eastern side of our country).

Most of NSW & Queensland are in severe drought & I've tried to capture that.

Taken through the rather bug spattered windscreen, showing just how dry, flat & expansive it is out west.

 A dry creek bed, which by the erosion of it's sides, can flow well, when we've had rain.

Occasionally, there are places to stop, as long as you've not got a truck or other vehicle,"right up your backside", as hubby puts it.   There were many trucks loaded with hay on their way to drought stricken farmers.

Another view over ploughed fields, awaiting those first drops of rain.  The mountains in the distance are a small section the Great Dividing Range.

I'll post more during the week about travelling over the border into Queensland, our little mishap & seeing places new to me, as I've only been to Queensland once before, when I was 16 and that is, a long time ago.

A LITTLE EXTRA.......................

I've managed to finish the piecing on the quilt I designed and started at the Mystery Case weekend I enjoyed with my friend Joy, back in July.   Ahhhhhh!

Does anyone ever feel guilty about weird things?

Here in our part of Victoria, even though the rainfall isn't as good as it should be, we are definitely in the GREEN & not drought. This I snapped last week on a short afternoon outing.

Taken on a back road between Drouin & Poowong, it definitely makes the above photos look stark.

I was actually out to take one of the photos for the Scavenger Hunt.  Hmm!  Now I have you wondering.

I'll leave it at that for today & have scheduled in another 'holiday post' on Wednesday, I hope.

Thanks for taking the time if you read this.  Am I too long winded?

Take care all & huggles.

Susan.