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UNEXPECTED VISITORS 27 Aug 2013 | 06:34 pm
The Australian King Parrot is a beautiful bird. We don't usually see them around our home. I have seen them before in National Parks but not in the suburbs. So it was a big surprise when six of them l...
SIBLINGS 24 Aug 2013 | 05:55 pm
Florrie, Ada and Gilbert Greenall about 1918 or 1919. Today's prompt for Sepia Saturday meme is a photo of 3 people who could be siblings. Well I have just that in my old photo collection of my fami....
THE SUNLANDER 20 Aug 2013 | 02:54 pm
The Sunlander is the name of the train that runs the 1000km between Brisbane and Cairns in Queensland. A few months ago we flew to Cairns and then went by road to the tip if the state. Then we flew b...
A FASHIONABLE HAT 17 Aug 2013 | 03:16 pm
This beautiful young lady with the fashionable hat is my paternal grandmother. I never knew her very well. I was 6 when we left England to migrate to Australia in 1949 and left all my grandparents beh...
BACK TO CIVILISATION 13 Aug 2013 | 02:37 am
Our wonderful tour of Cape York was over. We flew back from Horn Island to Cairns, where we had two nights before catching the train home to Brisbane 1700k/1000m away. Cairns is the biggest city in F...
OLD FAMILY MOTORBIKES 9 Aug 2013 | 09:00 pm
Going through my mum's old photos I found some which are suitable for this weeks Sepia Saturday theme. The above photo is the prompt for the theme. The photo is titled "What An Amazing Contraption". ...
OFFLOADED 8 Aug 2013 | 12:00 am
Our tour of Cape York had come to an end or so we thought......... Our bags were transported from the hotel on Thursday Island to the small ferry which would take us to Horn Island and the airport. ....
BIRTHDAY BEAR HAS EYE OPERATION 6 Aug 2013 | 12:22 pm
Our group of Birthday Bear friends celebrated Mary's birthday recently. For new readers you can read about our Birthday Bear tradition here: Birthday Bear. The birthday lunch was some weeks after Mary...
AN OLD SHIP 3 Aug 2013 | 10:46 am
This is an old photo I found in my mother's album. The ship at the back is the M.V. Georgic. It is on this ship that we migrated to Australia in 1949. Printed on the back of this photo is: "GEORGIC"...
BEYOND THE CAPE 30 Jul 2013 | 06:17 pm
At last I found a map of our trip to Cape York. After our hike to the tip of Australia we returned to Bamaga for another night. The next morning Chris, our driver took us to the wharf where we said.....
