Stanley

We stayed in Stanley, Tasmania Australia along the North West Coast (map below) for several nights in March this year.  It was very windy most days.  The caravan park is lovely and we were placed on a good site but we couldn't get TV only one channel which kept breaking up, so our phones were used to watch TV mainly the news.

I've featured Stanley a few times in my blog but I'm at it again, this time with different photos of such a pretty place.

The Nut as it's called was discovered by Bass and Flinders in 1789.  The rock is a volcanic plug which forms when magma hardens, there are several of these volcanic plugs around the world.  The Nut is 152m above sea level and flat on the top.

Above is in front of the caravan park a good walking path, and below is our site in the park and only about 12 steps away from the beach.

Above photo is a view from the gift shop before you get on the chair lift to the top of the Nut plus you can see the cabins of the caravan park.  Below is the gift shop and parking area to either walk or hop on the chair lift to the top of the Nut.

Another beach just a stones throw from the caravan park. The white fence below is a very old graveyard which is beautifully kept and what a place to be laid to rest.

Home again, 2021

Home again after being away for 22 days with one week in Devonport, 5 days in Stanley and 10 days in Wynyard Tasmania.  Had beautiful weather however, windy in Stanley.

Devonport is a city along the north west coast of Tasmania.

Hope you have been well whilst I've been gone and I expect some have had the Covid-19 shot.

The photos below are of Bass Strait and the view is from our caravan or a few steps towards the sea.

The blue boat is a freighter and the red one is the ferry to Melbourne called the Spirit of Tasmania. The crossing takes about 11 hours.

 

 

 The beach is called The Bluff with very little dry sand but a popular beach, a restaurant, play ground for children and picnic areas for humans.  There are also good walks to be had along the foreshore.

Onwards to Millmerran Queensland.

Continuing south in Winter 2019 we headed to Millmerran to stay a few nights in the caravan park.
We stayed at Millerran on the way north and noticed that the lake within the caravan park was so much lower.
On the way back in October the lake had so much less water in it due to the drought,  even the caravan parks grass was dry and not green like before.  I believe it has rained since.

Millmerran is a rural town, population of about 1,600 people.

Firstly a photo of farmland as we travelled towards Millmerran in Queensland.

Once green and many caravans but this time hardly anyone travelling in the drought in October 2019.

In past years I can remember the water being to the top of that mound of soil. The photo below can remember the water being to that ridge.

In Millmerran there is a competition of throwing the 'Damper' each year, many people come from afar for this event.

Damper is a traditional Australian soda bread, historically prepared by swagmen, drovers, stockmen and other travellers.  It consists of a wheat-flour based bread, traditionally baked in the coals of a campfire or a camp oven.  Basic ingredients of damper were flour, water and sometimes milk.

Never had or made damper so no idea what it tastes like.

Flower in Winter.

The flowers below were taken around the caravan park in Rockhampton, Queensland.
Always look forward to looking at these plants as we don't have them at home here.

One of the bathrooms at the caravan park.

Proserpine, Queensland and Gunna Go Caravan Park!

Proserpine in Queensland has a sugar mill after the mill was built the town was established in 1890.
Gold was found back then but the mine is closed.
It's a small town with one Main Street.
Proserpine is not that far from Airlie Beach - The Whitsunday Islands and The Great Barrier Reef.
This year in March there was a cyclone Debbie came across and it was hit and miss.

The Prince of Wales Hotel was built in 1904.

The Sugar Mill above, below part of the Gunna A Go Caravan Park where we stayed for 7 nights.

There were two parts to this caravan park, the not so noisy and noisy - having said that the train line went through right behind us - but we didn't hear it during the night where some people did.  At least we were asked upon arrival, the quiet or train noise.  Didn't bother us at all.

The Caravan Park was lashed by Cyclone Debbie and was recovering well.

Was wonderful to be amid the palm trees.

The Bar below which was Licensed and open each evening.

Don't know what the plant above is, it's very pretty.  Plant below is Mother In Laws Tongue.

A new sign, was not one there when we went out but one when we returned.

Beautiful old tree which had been trimmed after the cyclone.