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"Houston, we have a problem", said the commander of the Apollo13 Space mission which resulted in a return back to earth. Well, today we decided a similar action. Jerome's sunburn is very severe and is not enjoying either sitting, laying down or walking for that matter.
After breakfast in jail we decided to see how things would progress and headed for the Bundaberg Rum distillery to do a tour. Tours are done every hour, on the hour and seeing we arrived at 2 minutes past 10 the next tour was at 11 AM. We were able to visit a small museum and their retail outlet and decided to give the tour a miss as we don’t like rum anyway. Perhaps better luck at the nearby Bundaberg Ginger Beer factory which… we found out was a just a very nicely designed retail shop. The actual factory is not able to handle visitors. By that stage we had decided to go back towards Brisbane. First stop the small town of Childers which is a typical Australian town of about 1500 people who make a living of the very fertile red soil land which surrounds the area. The first Europeans arrived there in the 1850 and started building the houses and shops along the main street. Nearly all of these buildings, although made of wood , are still there today and are now heritage-listed sites. A few of these are in the pictures, like the Federal and Grand Hotels, Post-office etc. Just south of the town flows the Isis River, which is supplies the town with water. It is always nice to re-visit these places as I have been here with my friend Ab in the 80’s and Rob only a few years ago.
Just past the town of Gympie there is a road leading west via mountain ridges with great views over the surrounding area and further south, the Sunshine Coast. This area use to have active volcanoes which are said to be 26 million years old. The outside of the volcanoes have worn away to expose the hard basalt core. The nearby 5 volcano cores reach a height of between 130 and 550 meters. I remember the tobacco plantations which are now all but gone and replaced by pineapple farms instead.
The reach Brisbane, you have to make a left turn and head down the mountain range after which you enter Beerwah, the home of The Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin. Steve use to run his private zoo there which has grown into a major tourist attraction. By the signage you almost think he is still alive. Steve who was a conservationist and a TV personality who died tragically by the tail of a Stingray in Sept 2006 while filming the movie “Ocean’s Deadliest”.
Back to Houston. The picture of Jerome’s back will tell you enough.
After breakfast in jail we decided to see how things would progress and headed for the Bundaberg Rum distillery to do a tour. Tours are done every hour, on the hour and seeing we arrived at 2 minutes past 10 the next tour was at 11 AM. We were able to visit a small museum and their retail outlet and decided to give the tour a miss as we don’t like rum anyway. Perhaps better luck at the nearby Bundaberg Ginger Beer factory which… we found out was a just a very nicely designed retail shop. The actual factory is not able to handle visitors. By that stage we had decided to go back towards Brisbane. First stop the small town of Childers which is a typical Australian town of about 1500 people who make a living of the very fertile red soil land which surrounds the area. The first Europeans arrived there in the 1850 and started building the houses and shops along the main street. Nearly all of these buildings, although made of wood , are still there today and are now heritage-listed sites. A few of these are in the pictures, like the Federal and Grand Hotels, Post-office etc. Just south of the town flows the Isis River, which is supplies the town with water. It is always nice to re-visit these places as I have been here with my friend Ab in the 80’s and Rob only a few years ago.
Just past the town of Gympie there is a road leading west via mountain ridges with great views over the surrounding area and further south, the Sunshine Coast. This area use to have active volcanoes which are said to be 26 million years old. The outside of the volcanoes have worn away to expose the hard basalt core. The nearby 5 volcano cores reach a height of between 130 and 550 meters. I remember the tobacco plantations which are now all but gone and replaced by pineapple farms instead.
The reach Brisbane, you have to make a left turn and head down the mountain range after which you enter Beerwah, the home of The Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin. Steve use to run his private zoo there which has grown into a major tourist attraction. By the signage you almost think he is still alive. Steve who was a conservationist and a TV personality who died tragically by the tail of a Stingray in Sept 2006 while filming the movie “Ocean’s Deadliest”.
Back to Houston. The picture of Jerome’s back will tell you enough.
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