In a post called It’s Official: Brisbane Summer of 2016/17 Hottest Yet at the beginning of this month, I mentioned how strange it was that we had not had any cyclones at all this year in Queensland. Oh dear. I think it was Saturday when I first heard about Cyclone Debbie forming off of the [...]
Mackay
Mackay week is drawing to a close. We started with Mackay: The Town, the Shops, the River and the Lagoon and followed that on Wednesday with The Beaches and the Country Roads Around Mackay, Queensland. Here’s Mackay, all of it, all at once, but without too much of the fine detail… The ‘…without too much [...]
In Mondays post we looked at Mackay: The Town, the Shops, the River and the Lagoon. I wanted to check out the beaches though, so I jumped into my car to make the short journey east to the coast. Within 10 minutes I’d made my way to the end of East Gordon Street, arriving at [...]
Time to return to my road trip. Having left Rockhampton and taken the scenic route around the Capricorn Coast, I drove straight past Eungella National Park, arriving in Mackay at around 6 o’clock in the evening. My accommodation was a little bit out of the way, being a fair walk from the centre of town. [...]
As you will already know if you read Mondays posts, I didn’t drive directly to Mackay from Rockhampton, I took the scenic route, The Capricorn Coast Tourist Drive. I thoroughly enjoyed the drive, and the whole area along the coastline from Emu Park to Yeppoon. I have no regrets in taking that detour, but had [...]
If you have read either of my last two posts, you will know I’m currently on a road trip. Today, I thought I would clear up the ‘I’ bit, as in just me. So, what’s happened to Mrs Bob and Elizabeth? Well, they haven’t come along, and here’s why. Whilst I absolutely love going on [...]
Fishermen eh, what are they like? I’ll get to that in a minute. If you read Friday’s post called Cyclone Ita Heading for Cooktown, FNQ you would have heard about a cyclone called Ita which was heading for Cooktown in Far North Queensland. Yes, the title kind of nailed it. So, what happened? Cyclone Ita [...]
No prizes for guessing what today’s post is about. It’s been a while coming, but on Sunday in the early hours, Ului arrived. After all the guesswork and the talk of its unpredictability, the Bureau of Meteorology did a pretty fine job of predicting exactly where it would cross the coast. Ului tore through The [...]
