This week I travelled with Robyn up to her sister's place in Gladstone. Robyn wanted to pick up some art work she had left there and asked me if I wanted to join her. I gladly accepted her invitation! We stayed in a granny flat on Lynda's property (Lynda is Robyn's sister) and did a lot of relaxing there. We also spent some time gathering garbage on a couple of beaches - Lynda is creating an art display to show how much garbage ends up in our ocean and needed to collect some garbage from nearby beaches, so Robyn and I helped out. We also went to the Botanical Gardens one day and went on Lynda's postal run one day (which took about four hours). Below are some pics of our time up there.
On the way up to Gladsone:
we stopped for lunch in Gympie and I just HAD to have a lamington - freshly made at a local bakery - sooooooooo yummy :-)
In and around Gladstone:
Robyn in front of artwork
Someone had taped these two pieces of artwork onto a tree on the beach
At the Botanical Gardens in Gladstone:
Robyn's sister, Lynda, walking in the botanical gardens
Robyn
Japanese Tea Garden
Look what we had for dinner (the three of us shared this and I also had an iced chocolate
It's hard to see, but you can sort of see the noses of the turtles sticking up out of the water in the pond
A lovely kookaburra sitting on the garbage can near the parking lot of the botanical gardens
Lynda's cat on the roof of the granny flat (she calls it 'roof cat' cuz it almost always is up there on the roof)
The granny flat which Robyn and I stayed in (on Lynda's property)
Lynda's chickens
Lynda's dog, Diggety
Some pics along the way on Lynda's postal run - she works part-time for the Post Office - she does the run twice a week to take mail to farmers who live way out in the boonies
a postal box where we delivered mail
On the way back home:
In a little town we stopped at for morning tea, I saw this giraffe and just had to have my picture taken in front of it :-)
More giraffes inside the store
One for the boys - snot coming out of the warthog's nose - I thought they would think that was funny (cool?) :-)
Robyn eating watermelon for morning tea
Me eating a sausage roll (with Heinz ketchup!) for lunch - yummmmmmmmmm!
