Road trip 2011 - part 2

The next stop was Girraween National Park, just inside Queensland, chosen purely for its location as a good spot to break up the journey. Its website claims it is noted for large rocks and for Spring flowers. It had both in abundance - and fine weather!

Big flat rock areas:

Balanding rocks:


Split rocks:


Gaps between rocks:


Lots of flowers:


After an afternoon and a morning bushwalk it was on to Maleny to see my aunts and uncles. When we got there uncle Bob was working in his vegetable garden. I looked over the fence and said "Hello" and he asked what I was selling. "Five-year-old children" I replied and Bob said he didn't want any of those. Then he came over and kissed me.


Louka soon got to work drawing pictures and writing notes to her new-found relations. She was very impressed with Bob's home-made "monster bread" (mixed grain bread).

Next day we went round to Rita and Kevin's place for a family reunion. There were Rita and Kevin, Bob and Connie, Brian and Margaret, Bill and Viv, my cousins Alison and John and John's children Oscar and Ella. Oscar is 1½ years older than Louka and Ella 1½ years younger, so they got on very well.



Chatting to my aunts and uncles, we found that Bill and Viv have a lovely new house near the Glasshouse Mountains, where Bill has built Viv the most expensive clothesline in the world. So next day we followed Connie and Bob to see it (and the rest of the house as well). It is a lovely house, with gorgeous polished timber floors, but unfortunately I didn't take any photos. Graham was very impressed by Bill's shed, which is even bigger than our garage that extends under our entire house. Oh, and the clothesline was fine - the expense being in excavating a flat area for it.

I'll write about the trip home in a new post.