Finally a short holiday with Ormiston on the way back home ☺

Finally on our way back home after being away 2 weeks longer than expected. Being 2000klms away from home not a quick trip back lol.

Anyway all is good now and even got our little washing line out while staying in a paddock next to the pub ☺

Here it is again and have taken more interior shots just to show you all and my family too who visit here. Looking forward to showing my mum to ☺

The air con

Our bed, excuse the mess but we are on  holiday, although on the move each day.

Microwave at the foot of the bed lol

Stove top and have cooked up some tasty meals, also the griller.

Sink, we even have a water purifier tap ☺

The ensuite which is handy in the middle of the night lol

The cafe lounge

Our wardrobe right next to the fridge

The fridge/freezer, we travel with lots of frozen food to cook up.

Cupboards under sink

Overhead cupboards with food

We moved on to do a final visit/stay at our friends Ian and Mary and they have lots of Kangaroo's around their property. Thanks for having us stay in our rig at your place guys ☺☺

A cockatoo came to visit in the morning.

Grazing and mowing the grass for Ian lol

Their lovely home

Lots of bird feed here.

Neighbors in the distance up the hill.

Lovely clouds

Sun setting over our rig

A cute colourful parrot came to eat but would not turn around lol

See, had his back to me. We had a lovely visit with our friends and hit the road again.

On one of our days we stopped to get a bit of exercise on this track. Lots of sitting in the car so much needed walks.

Lovely lower fall.

Zoomed in on the upper falls.

Drove over to get a closer look at the upper falls.

Top of the lower falls, you can just see it dropping off the edge.

A near roadside free camp stop and more Kangaroos!

Us all setup for the night with a young neighbor also staying with his family in their van

 

More Roo's.....we had another stop this time near my son who lives near Sydney. We stayed in a caravan site and he came to have tea with us and a good family catchup. Too busy chatting to him to take pictures lol.

 

Tonight in the bush near a busy road and settling in nicely.

May have one more night stop on our way home.

Thankyou for visiting and love all your comments.

Has been a long journey for us, with fun thrown in too.

take care xoxoxo ☺♥

 

Finally it is here and us in it ☺

Hello, such a long time we have been away from home....... Finally we have the Winjana Ormiston 5th wheeler and can now do a slow drive home although maybe not as slow as our original plan as we have been gone from home for over 5weeks now. Originally planned to be back for a dental appointment then little Riley's 1st birthday but changed my dental appoint and will miss the little man's birthday tomorrow......

Here it finally is and happy with how it all looks.

From the door looking in and please excuse the mess, the amount of packing and unpacking we have been doing for 5weeks has been..... a bit

 

From the table looking back to the bed with en suite on the side. A lovely big fridge which runs of the large assortment of lithium batteries the man wired up.

The towing gear in the back of our dmax spacecab.

 

We had a couple of trips back to the factory to fix a couple of teething problems and now let's hope all sorted and we can get ourselves back down to home by start of December or sooner.

Here we are at our 3rd time to actually sleep in it and a bonus stop in a paddock next door to a pub. My big sis Lolly is coming over to say goodbye and have lunch with us at the pub tomorrow.

No milo visiting but I also get to say goodbye to my lovely bro in law too ☺

View from one side

View from the other, lovely aussie countryside ☺ 

There is even a train carriage converted to a neat accommodation site.

Well maybe my last till we are back home, unsure. It has been a fun/trying/family/good time and certainly have copped a lot of sun as pretty warm up in qld and we are not even in the hotter area. I am travelling with a bit of sunburn as my lily skin ain't used to it lol.

Thinking of my mum too as we travel back...

Take care my dear family/friends and visitors.

xoxoxoxoxo

 

A long way from home, hot and still having fun waiting ☺

We came back to Toowoomba and stayed in this little bungalow, with tiny kitchen but at least could cook. Picture taken from the kitchen through bedroom to bathroom.

Our car was dropped off on the Monday last week and this is the car they lent to us to use till our car ready with the link needed in the back to tow the Winjana when it is ready which is now possibly this coming Friday and will know on Wednesday, but may not be till next Monday......

We visited the Cobb & Co museum.

Unfortunately not a live Kookaburra but at least a great picture.

Then we got a phone call to come to the factory to return 2 of our solar panels as they needed them for a measure on the roof placement. Here it is now getting a bit more van like.

Back to the Cobb & Co museum to finish our visit

A really great display of buggy's and plenty of model horses.

We then drove up this great lookout where we had seen the Aussie flag flying when travelling on that road with all the roadworks happening down that hill.....

 

This is "Puppy" who was the mascot of the Toowoomba Thistle pipe band.

The next day we visited Spring Bluff station hoping to see a coal train come through but alas none.

We left a little donation though as they had been affected when the floods came through in 2011.

 

Yep, no trains

 

A lovely waterfall but this turned into a torrent washing away everything in its path

 

Oh who do we have here???

Zoom......cute lizard.

We also stopped at this station which had been also flooded out.

 

And there is that flag from the road on our way back up from our little tourist trip to the stations.

Love the old trees ☺

 

Another lookout we went to.

 

Another view of the borrowed car which was returned late Wednesday and good to have ours back.

A lovely simple park where we had a bbq lunch with a walk

That man of mine is special lol

 

Didn't see any, but have seen plenty of Wallaby's and Kangaroo's but they move fast!!

Where the water runs off when the lake over fills from rain.

Back at the factory dropping off their car and collecting ours ☺ Starting to look better but told another week so booked ourselves in to Bargara timeshare from fri -fri.

Thank goodness they said we could leave some of this at the factory as it has been a lot of heavy carrying and storing lol

More pictures before we headed back to my sister's. No more pictures for a week as we are going to be roughly 400klm's away.

Steps up to bed with doorway to en suite.

Where the bed will be.

 

Obviously the roof.

 

Where the fridge/freezer will be and our wardrobe too.

Back for the night and got to see Milo again ☺

And lots of little Gecko's

Next day we drove to bargara near to Bundaberg where the sugar cane grows and they make the famous Bundy Rum ☺☺

As we are exercising a lot we went on a walk to the only lookout as most of the land in this region is flat and growing sugar cane.

View of the beautiful sea which we have even had a lovely swim as it has been real warm and humid.

This beach is Mon Repos where the turtles come to lay there eggs in the night. Have not seen any yet, except for display ones.

 

Out and about again yesterday we visited the botanical gardens and had a good look over this old house.

Enjoyed seeing many turtles, look at them coming towards us lol

And of course this train which runs each Sunday was supposed to be steam......nope, fire ban so they ran the little diesel.

If you look real close there is an eel swimming by.

Today we visited the mystery-craters

 

Also this guy was there lol

Then over to check out this amazing tunnel. The trains use to go through here but all the track has been removed and now just something of interest to see.

Lots of tiny bent wing bats live here ☺☺☺ 

We drove through and then turned around and came back through again. Amazing digging through a  huge rock.

That's it for now although we did visit the Hinkler Aviator museum which was very interesting but did not take my camera for that one.

May you all be keeping well and enjoying visiting here. The longest we have been away from home and don't know for how much longer as once we get our Winjana we still of course want to test ourselves and it out.

Take care and love to all xoxo