What’s this – I hear you ask? An actual blog post from the Fealy Family again? I know – we’ve been AWOL recently and I’m very sorry if anybody has been missing us! But guess what? We went camping over this Queen’s Birthday June long weekend and it was so, so awesome I have to share it with you and hopefully I will kick back into blogging gear again and fill you all in on what has been happening up here recently!
So, here goes. Let me tell you about Chillagoe! Continue reading
Throwback Thursday today, so time to catch up on another post that I didn’t share from last year. Remember when we did our trip out to Lawn Hill at the end of June in 2014? Well, we finished that trip off with a weekend camping with all the family and doing some gem fossicking at O’briens Creek, just out of Mt Surprise. Continue reading
The other spot we visited a few times while staying at Bramston Beach was the Babinda Boulders. The kids loved it here and the water was lovely and refreshing and not quite as ‘fresh’ as the beautiful Josephine Falls. Continue reading
Here at last is the promised Bramston Beach post. We (being my sister Beth and her family, my mum & dad and our Fealy Family – as well as a few ring-ins, the Kendalls, Tom and Worrell families, who stayed a night or two throughout our visit) spent a week at the end of January staying in a very old beach house at Bramston Beach. We had a really good time, but it was very, very, very hot and we didn’t have air-conditioning. Oh, and all the kids ended up with school sores (thanks Lexi!). So, that’s just a bit of the reality before I show you some photos. Here’s a few taken by my very clever cousin Sarah, from Sarah Kendall Photography, to set the scene of our week. Continue reading
We are into the last week of the school term here – yippeeeee! I love school holidays and can not wait to have a break from lunch boxes, uniforms and after school activities! Of course there will be some fighting and far too many ‘I’m hungry’s’, but I really am looking forward to having all the kids at home for a big break from routine! We don’t have a lot planned for these holidays as Matt will be very busy with Mango Madness here on the farm, but we have a visit from the Townsville cousins and the Perth cousins to look forward to, as well as a week away at the beach in January, so still lots of fun to be had!
I am so behind with my blogging that I haven’t even posted about the great day out we had at Granite Gorge, just outside Mareeba, with the Brissy cousins last school holidays at the beginning of October! So, here’s the details now in case you want to make a visit out there these holidays. Continue reading
Are you ready to hear about the best ‘bush’ camping we have ever done to date? As you already know, upon leaving Adels Grove campground, we decided to head back towards Gregory Downs and spend the next five nights free camping in a nice secluded spot on the Gregory River, in a place we had previously located on our way through to Lawn Hill earlier in the week. Matt really doesn’t like caravan park/campground camping and after having a busy, nearly twelve months on the farm with lots of workers and family around, we were really hanging out for some quiet, relaxing family time. That is exactly what we got on the Gregory River! Continue reading
Oh dear – I have just realised that we never finished telling you all about our two week trip away in June/July!! Ooopsy Daisy!!! Right, back to it then – there’s a couple of awesome posts to come! So, while we explored Lawn Hill/Boodjamulla National Park we set up base camp at Adels Grove Camping Park. It was a lovely shady campground with plenty of room for everyone. No designated sites – just find a spot wherever you liked. As we mentioned in our Lawn Hill post – there is no internet connection available at Adels Grove but the shady sites outweighed that for us as even in winter it was very hot at the National Park!! Just a word of warning though – it would be very difficult to get much sun on your solar panels in the Adels Grove Campground as most of the park is covered by the leafy tree canopy! The Top Campground at Adels Grove does allow pets and generators, but it is much hotter and no where near as pretty and leafy as The Grove campground.
Here’s a little bit of trivia for you – the Adels Grove Park was originally taken up by the owner as a Botanical Garden and over 1000 species of exotic and native plants, shrubs and trees were planted there. The Botanical Gardens in Brisbane still has 536 different samples of seeds sent to them by the original owner! This really explains the beauty of the campround here! We camped for three nights at Adels and really enjoyed it. Continue reading
Here at last is our wrap up of three days spent exploring Boodjamulla (Lawn Hill) National Park at the end of June!! After two nights at Gregory Downs we had a leisurely pack up and drove the short 90kms down the road to base ourselves in the campground at Adels Grove and spend the next few days seeing all there was to see at Lawn Hill.
The road out to Adels Grove was really great for the first 50kms or so, right up to the turnoff for the MMG Century Zinc mine. After that, the last 40km’s were pretty rough going – lots of dust, corrugations and a much narrower road. The Adels Grove Campground is 10km’s from the Lawn Hill National park itself but we are so glad we camped at Adels as opposed to the National Park campground – it was much shadier and nowhere near as dusty! The only downside was that there was full phone/internet reception available at the National Park but nothing at all at Adels Grove! I will do a separate post about Adels Grove next, this one will focus on what we got up to in the Lawn Hill National Park, there are just too many photos and to much to tell you to fit it all in one post. Continue reading
Right – blog posts are few and far between these days – my comittment to the gym is eating into my ‘free’ time at the moment! However, the next couple of days are going to be dedicated to finishing off the posts about our little trip at the end of June. So, where were we? That’s right – I have already filled you in on the first three nights of our trip free camping along the Burke Developmental Road. From Leichardt Falls we headed to Gregory Downs along a narrow, very dusty dirt road that ran alongside Augustus Downs Station.
It has been over two weeks now since we arrived back from our maiden voyage with ‘Black Betty’ and I am still getting through all the washing from the trip. We arrived back late on the Sunday night and were straight back into things again with new workers starting about Blue Sky, visiting travellers staying and the Mareeba Rodeo all straight up! It felt like our holiday had never happened all within 24 hours and I am really struggling to claw my way back onto the ‘organised’ and ‘tidy house’ train – aaaaaaargh!
Anyway, I’m dying to share all of our little adventure with you as we had a great time and we couldn’t be happier with the camper! Continue reading
Proudly powered by WordPress Theme: Adventure Journal by Contexture International.
Recent Comments