Queensland Coast

Queensland’s Cyclone Free Summer Comes to an Abrupt End With Debbie thumbnail

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 [...]

Airlie Beach

Well, I haven’t brought you any tales of my Queensland coastal road trip for a while, last time we talked about it I was exploring The Beaches and the Country Roads Around Mackay, Queensland. As you will know if you read that post, my drive from Ball Bay to Airlie Beach was an interesting journey [...]

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 [...]

beach

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 [...]

coast

In Fridays post we looked at Things to Do in and Around Rockhampton, Queensland. The ‘around’ bit was mostly about driving down to the Capricorn Coast and I showed you a few images of the relaxing country drive that takes you there. Here are some more pictures from my Capricorn Coast drive… I should explain [...]

road

I’ve got a great selection of videos for you today, there’s something for everybody. Well, there is one small proviso to that; you would need to be keen on finding out more about Rockhampton. Having got that out of the way, let’s kick on with the post. On Monday I spoke about the Rockhampton part [...]

Brisbane Weather

Welcome to The Weather Channel. I did promise I wouldn’t turn this blog into The Weather Channel, but I didn’t know how difficult it would be to keep that promise. So, here’s the weather. Today, in western suburbs of Brisbane, around the area known as my back garden, it’s hot, the current temperature is around [...]