Having a Gas

April 2021

We are heading off to an almost local music weekend. Visiting with our Goat friends, Goatboy, Goatgirl and others. There are guest performers we have seen before and enjoyed. This is GAS, Goats Acoustic Sessions, Okld Fashioned Music weekend. Read more

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- Apr 6, 2021, 1:00pm
- ⛅ 27 °C
- Altitude: 122 m
- Australia Queensland Lake Victoria -24.03341, 150.2876524°2’0” S 150°17’16” E
Day 1
Lake Victoria
April 6, 2021 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 27 °C
Our first stop on this trip is Lake Victoria for lunch stop. We are 100k from where we expect to stop for tonight.

This spot is nice but with all the rain around the black soil road back out is risky.

Pam is off stalking the abundant bird life.

Turns out this spot is on private property. Unruly visitors have prompted the errection of a fence and gate. Hopefully visitors will respect the place and behave so the spot remains accessable.Read more
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- Apr 6, 2021, 3:09pm
- ⛅ 25 °C
- Altitude: 127 m
- Australia Queensland Lake Victoria -24.03422, 150.2874424°2’3” S 150°17’15” E
Day 1
Lake Victoria to Lawgi Hall
April 6, 2021 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 25 °C
The drive on from Lake Victoria to Lawgi Hall was easy and uneventful. We stopped a few times to check out sights and arrived safely at our first overnight stop. Nice and well maintained stop. Up to 72 hours for a donation.

An unusual rainbow brightened the horizon for ages as we approached Thangool and on. It was very broad and very bright.

At one point we headed up a road to get a photo without obstructions and got spotted by a letter box. He paused and froze, waiting to throw his paper plane after we were gone.Read more
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- Apr 7, 2021, 6:40am
- ⛅ 18 °C
- Altitude: 329 m
- Australia Queensland Banana Lawgi -24.56833, 150.6616724°34’6” S 150°39’42” E
Day 2
Early morning at Lawgi Hall
April 7, 2021 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
We awoke very early to a beautiful day. The rain has moved along to the south and we have broken sun.

We decided to have a short walk and enjoyed the cooler weather with the brisk breeze almost to the point of needing a heavier shirt. We ended up walking about 1.3 kilometres. A nice start to the day.Read more
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- Apr 7, 2021, 12:09pm
- ⛅ 23 °C
- Altitude: 571 m
- Australia Queensland North Burnett Coominglah Forest -24.885, 150.9824°53’6” S 150°58’48” E
Day 2
Hurdle Gully
April 7, 2021 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C
It's not a long drive in but care must be taken. We had been here before but we enjoyed the drive in.

As I was driving I noticed what looked like rope right across the road. As we got closer I realized it was itchy grubs. They move along in procession, nose to tail. This group was about 6 meters long from one side of the road to the other.

"These so called ‘itchy grubs’, are the caterpillars of the bag-shelter moth, Orchragaster lunifer. They are common Australian insects."

Pam managed to place one lost fellow at the end of the line and probably saved his life. She offer him a stick that he happily clunbed on for a short lift. You can't touch these guys as they cause severe itching and welts.

I also spotted 2 fine fungi species.Read more
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- Apr 7, 2021, 1:30pm
- ⛅ 26 °C
- Altitude: 240 m
- Australia Queensland North Burnett Monto -24.86095, 151.1078624°51’39” S 151°6’28” E
Day 2
Monto Street Art
April 7, 2021 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C
There was a few artworks on the streets of Monto. The first as we drov in from the north.
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- Apr 7, 2021, 2:50pm
- ⛅ 26 °C
- Altitude: 250 m
- Australia Queensland North Burnett Monto -24.86362, 151.1224224°51’49” S 151°7’21” E
Day 2
Monto Alley Art
April 7, 2021 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C
Art in an alley and the skate Park. It all looks fantastic.
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- Apr 7, 2021, 3:34pm
- ⛅ 25 °C
- Altitude: 230 m
- Australia Queensland North Burnett Three Moon -24.915, 151.1283324°54’54” S 151°7’42” E
Day 2
Silo Art at Monto
April 7, 2021 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 25 °C
Silo Art is always impressive. These are no exception.
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- Apr 7, 2021, 4:56pm
- ⛅ 25 °C
- Altitude: 221 m
- Australia Queensland North Burnett Mulgildie -24.96388, 151.1326824°57’50” S 151°7’58” E
Day 2
Mulgildie Pub.
April 7, 2021 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 25 °C
These murals were probably done some time back but they definitely went all out. Along the west facing from there is considerable fading.
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- Apr 9, 2021, 10:36am
- ☀️ 26 °C
- Altitude: 76 m
- Australia Queensland Bin Bin Creek -25.41, 151.77525°24’36” S 151°46’30” E
Day 4
Redclaw Bin Bin Creek
April 9, 2021 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
Just a short distance from Mingo Crossing is one of the creeks that runs into the dammed Burnett River. When the river is dammed right back full this area goes under. The trees drown and die. Normally this area is quite active but the extended dry seasons has left it abandoned by water birds and humans.Read more
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- Apr 9, 2021, 12:46pm
- ☀️ 28 °C
- Altitude: 196 m
- Australia Queensland North Burnett Mount Perry -25.17833, 151.6416725°10’42” S 151°38’30” E
Day 4
Mount Perry
April 9, 2021 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
Mount Perry is an old copper mining town, that has reinvented itself as a gold mining town. There is still evidence of the copper smelting of many years past. For some reason the top of the slag heap was poured with blocks to form a paving.

Reading through the stories it is claimed that the slag pavers were done as a lasting memorial. Personally I seriously doubt that. It would have cost considerable effort and time so there must have been a reason of operational importance. Possibly they wanted to stabilise the top of the slag heap or as I already speculated, have a solid base to move the dump carts to the edge.

I suspect there was an operational reason. Perhaps it made a solid pavement to run the dump skips on. Now it is an interesting surface on the top of thousands of tonnes of copper smelting slag.

The nearby lookout offers a reasonable look over the area to the south of Mount Perry. It would help if someone kept the trees below a bit trimmed but vee haf vays to solve that minor problem.Read more
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