Today was fantastic!!!! For one it was the most wonderful b'day l have had for a long time (usually hate b'days these days) and two, Marty and l had s kid free day thanks to our mate Angie.... Woke up a bit cranky due to b'day issues but after a half hour or so all was better. The girls woke and showered me with b'day kisses and wishes. Marty and Angie cooked mr an amazing big breaky: sausages, bacon, eggs, onion and tomato on toast....DELICIOUS!!!!! After brea...

Today it was time to get out there and see a bit of Atherton Tablelands so after breaky we all set off, first stop the Curtain Fig Tree. Wow! We arrived and walked down to be greeted by this huge fig tree. It was enormous to say the least. Its story of existence is not so pretty. A fig tree is created by a bird crapping a fig seed on a tree and then it grows and takes over the host tree, it's roots strangle the host tree till it dies! The Curtain Tree is actually...

Yesterday was uneventful with the morning spent cleaning and sorting out the Nissan and caravan, putting everything back in it's place. It took forever but at last it was done so Angie and l decided to head into Atherton and do a few jobs and also treat ourselves to lunch at a cafe. We felt so odd sitting on this couch watching people going about their day seeing we'd just spent four and a half weeks in the middle of nowhere in mostly isolation. Surprisingly taki...

Well we woke this morning knowing that it would be our last time with Rod and Angie.... We also woke to a nosy emu who was walking around looking at all our stuff and also to noisy bloody peacocks waking up!!! Everyone was quiet packing up not wanting to think about our upcoming farewell. We were on the road by 8am as we hadnt unpacked a great deal. We were heading to Mt Carbine to pick up our caravan, we were sort if looking forward to it by now. We made our w...