Just over 100klm we stopped for some lunch (chips) at Camila a can sugar growing area (another one).
The flower was rather vibrant and the poor house sure needs work done onit.
The car park of the petrol station. I was told to take photo of that silver car but have no idea why, no one has looked at it since.
Photos of the caravan park we stayed in, you see the laundry with domestic machines, yes they are rather reasonable to use price wise.
Lastly our caravan nestled amid the trees in the shade.
Rockhampton is on the tropic of Capricorn.
A link is of some of the city photos when we visited in 2014
I love those pink flowers! They would look great in my backyard
ReplyDeleteI'm sure they would Sharon, many people have them in their gardens up that way as they are a tropical plant.
DeleteBeautiful flowers you have captured, in your camera.
ReplyDeleteKisses
Thanks. I always like taking flowers, that's how I started off with the camera some yeas back.
DeleteIncredibly vibrant colours.
ReplyDeleteI suspect the washing machines get a good work-out.
Very much so with orange, never can miss it.
DeleteWashing machines seem to go most of the day, many do their washing at night and hang it out in the morning time. Of course with so many caravans having washing machines like we have, it's less washing in those machines. Many women do their towels and sheet in the machines provided and smaller clothes in their own washing machine if they have one.
The first photo of the orange flowers - I don't think I've seen those before. They're beautiful.
ReplyDeleteThey are rather vibrant and look great on a large tree, they always stand out and many of them were in bloom up that way when we were there.
DeleteCan't recall the name of the tree.
It is such a neat and lovely place to visit.
ReplyDeleteCertainly is well looked after Mildred.
DeleteI agree with Mildred-- a lovely place to stop. The flowers are excellent.
ReplyDeleteWe both liked this caravan park even though behind it there is a train line which is used mainly at night but didn't hear the whislte :) some people did.
DeleteInteresting to see the flight/drive time comparison.
ReplyDeleteThat road trip from "Rocky"to Mackay goes through unfenced
beef cattle country for a fair time.......Marlborough area???
Plenty of cattle grids when I travelled that very boring
part of the highway.
I wonder which would come off best in a collison - that snazzy looking
sports car or a rogue "mickey" bull??????
Cheers
Colin
Didn't see any cattle grazing along that area you mentioned Colin.
DeleteI reckon a cow or bull might win..
Nice
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DeleteThat's a very clean public laundry!
ReplyDeleteI love the flowers and palms and would love the chance to live in a house with that veranda.
The laundry is very clean, most are even though old for some.
DeleteAlways wanted to live in a house with a big veranda myself, but of course I would have to live in the right climate to get full benefit out of it.
That's a long trip between Rocky and Mackay. I hope you got to see the brolgas when you passed by the St. Lawrence area. When we were kids travelling by train from Gympie to Mackay to visit relatives living in either North Mackay or Slade Point, depending...we'd get a great thrill seeing the brolgas doing their dance as the train travelled through the wetland areas inland from St. Lawrence.
ReplyDeleteI was born in Rocky...at the Tannake Hospital on the banks of the Fitzroy River. We lived in Elphinstone Street, North Rockhampton. We moved to Slade Point when I was around 2 years old....thereabouts.
Well I never! Born in Rockhampton.
DeleteUnfortunately we didn't see any brolgas so therefore no dancing - they look to be a beautiful bird.
We went up to Slade Point top of hill to look for whales and we did see some in the distance.
Yes...that hill...between Slade Point and Lambert's Beach. Nana used to take my brother and I there where we were little kids...to see the porpoises swimming by. (In those days of the late Forties, I think that's what everyone thought them to be. Whether they were actually dolphins and not porpoises, I can't say. However, to us, they were porpoises).
DeleteEnjoy the trip, nice post !
ReplyDeleteThanks, that was last years trip :)
DeleteThat looks like a very pleasant caravan site & the flowers around it are so beautiful.
ReplyDeleteMy son loves to spot snazzy sports cars on our trips!
Sports cars must be a mans thing :) we did have one years ago for 8 years.
DeleteIt's a great part of the world been there twice now.
ReplyDeleteMerle..............
I don't mind Rockhampton, it's fairly easy to find ones way around it, and the winter weather is not too bad.
DeleteThe flowers are so tropical and luscious!
ReplyDeleteThey are, but that's the tropics.
DeleteWow ,your travels reveal so much about the beauty of your land my friend and Australia is definitely very vibrant in it,s prettiness!
ReplyDeleteyou captured beautifully these lovely blooms,so delightful .
silver car looks cool too
Thanks baili.
DeleteA beautiful journey, well done Margaret.
ReplyDeleteThanks Bob.
DeleteYour nature is beautiful.
ReplyDeleteIO guess it's very different from Finland.
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