Gin Gin Qld 05-19th June 2018

Gin Gin   5th - 19th June 2018

           Stayed in the showgrounds at Gin Gin for two weeks, 
    not a lot to do in Gin Gin but a very pleasant tidy town.


 
On the first day we arrived there was all the van from the Gin Gin show , one of the vans was three times the length of ours, see photo.


                                   We had a couple of foggy mornings too and the over night temp dropped to single figures.

Many a night we would walk down to the big Puma trucking stop and watch all the different trucks pulling in and out. 

We played bowls one Friday night as a social game but only 4 people turned up, there were more inside drinking than playing bowls.

Map of where Gin Gin is 

Woodgate Beach 12/03/2018

  A  Day outing to Woodgate Beach  12/03/2018


 


Woodgate Beach  16 kilometres of uspoilt sandy beaches. which is a 45 minute drive from Bundaberg.
 The drive from Bundaberg to Woodgate Beach passes many different types of trees but we did notice there was a large area of yellow
Bottle-brush Banksia before these changed to 
mangroves and tea trees.



 We both took a stroll together along the beach discovering many different type of shells along the high tide mark. There was a couple that looked just like the one they used for the Shell garage logo.
The beach seems to be made of small shells and fine grains of sand.



       The boat ramp is extra long

Burnett Heads

Look at the first map, Sunshine Coast, Maryborough and then Bundaberg.






















Now the second map shows you where the caravan park is, two blocks from the beach and Sharon walks from there to Mon Repos, which is the national park for the turtles.





But  they also lay their eggs at Oaks Beach near us and we see the young ones heading off into the Pacific Ocean for their first swim.




This is me holding a baby Loggerhead turtle just before his big adventure in life. Five minutes later he was out there in the Pacific Ocean having his first swim.














Just pushed his/ her way through the sand nest

Wayne's Lookout

We have been staying at Caboolture showgrounds the past couple of weeks and the weather has been very hot and sticky, above average temps so they say. Most days we have been doing afternoon walks around the showgrounds or up the street towards the equestion centre.

On one of these hot sticky morning we decide to take a drive up the sunshine coast to Manley. Which is between Kenilworth and Mapleton,
On a road called Obi Obi road.

There is  a one way only up road,the  ups roads are rather steep and windy with some very beautiful views of the valley, however there is not many places to pull over to view the valley.

Wayne's lookout (brother 25/2/1969 -27/9/2017)

 When we could pull over to view the valley.

 We discovered quiet unexpected but very appropriate at the time.

 A tree with a sign 

attached saying 

"Wayne's Lookout" 

from here we drove 

up to the glasshouse

mountains lookout. 

Miva change of plan

Saturday 3rd Feb 2018


     From a wet couple of days at Caboolture. we have decided to pack up the van (yes packing up while raining) and travel  along the Old Bruce Highway to Miva, which is north-west of Gympie.

    The road we have to take to get to Miva is a dirt road or as the sign says unsealed. We start off on a dirt/ unsealed road only to discover that they have sealed the remaining section to Miva. 

     Along the way the scenery changed several times, from open flat country farms to rather thick vegetation of either gum-trees or pine trees, one moment we are traveling past hills covered in large rocks to turn the next corner to be back amongst the open country farms. There are several narrow bridges to cross and you have to keep and eye out for cattle as you are driving through unfenced property.  (this is my job as I am the navigator)

      However our plan of staying at Dickabram Bridge Rest Area Miva changed when we arrive to find that the area was rather wet(as it had been raining all day) and nowhere dry to park the van. Dickabram bridge is the oldest road and rail crossing left in Qld.
    Another disappointment was that the Bridge was under reconstruction by council and we could not get any photos. Never mind, we did find the Dickabram cemetery where we stopped and photographed  the small cemetery  again dodging the rain drops. 

 Miva is a small rest area next to the impressively historic Dickabram Bridge. It has a lovely panaramic view which crosses the Mary River.
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    *Our change of plans was that we drive to Biggenden and stay there a few nights.