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| My sister dianne and her grandson Gabriel at Adriennes place |
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| Gabriel doing his push ups he saw Colm doing them after running so thought he would start, good boy keep it up |
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| Adrienne my niece at home |
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| Went for a day trip from Sarina to Eungulla national Park very nice Colm was impressed with the roads and mountains, good for bike riding he says |
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| View from the top |
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| Go on take off I dare you... |
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| Saw platypus's in the wild here at the National Park |
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| Two sisters together, Dianne and Raye |
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| First day of the NAIDOC week and Dion is helping run the 'bro am' golf day with colm assisting |
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| My other niece Leda with her nephew Adrienne's other boy biddy biddy or Deacon |
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| Having a rest while watching the golf while Adrienne and Dave do the morning radio session on the community radio My105 |
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| Adrienne and Dave in the makeshift radio studio at the golf course |
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| Uncle Dion with Dave in the background |
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| NAIDOC awards dinner night and Grandma with her two boys Deacon and Gabriel |
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| Dion presenting an award |
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| Treated to traditional dancing at the awards night |
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| Gabriel playing with Grandpa (poppa) after having his sugar load with dessert |
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| Big coal industry up North and this is a port close to Sarina |
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| The other big industry is sugar cane and ethanol here is a cane harvester in action |
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| A ?restaurant in the middle of Sarina where colm took me for breakfast one morning and Dianne commented on the lack of a certificate from the health dept but hey what doesn't kill you makes you stronger! and the bacon and eggs with the butter and toast were yummy and the tea was hot and a full pot of it too |
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| Up at airlie beach for a couple of days, nice place to see but full of backpackers and drunk hooligans |
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| By the lagoon in the afternoon we did go for a swim the next day but it was still cold..... |
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| The next day picture postcard setting isn't it |
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| Next we took a day trip up to Bowen reminded us of Carnarvon a lot |
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| Jetty looking out from the hill over bowen |
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| View from the other side with a cane burn off in the background |
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| Looking out to the islands from Bowen |
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| Outside the big mango having frozen mango yum! |
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| Youngest daughter colleen at the unit in town where we had a christmas in July celebration |
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| Its myself so it is on the morning |
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| Our breakfast for christmas |
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| Becky my other daughter is such a morning person not |
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| Chief cook and bottle washer hard at work still |
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| Night before we left we went down to the pub with one of my oldest been over 30 years friends Belinda and now we are off overseas next blog will be from europe! |
