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31st Dec 2020 Sharon Travel, Uncategorized

Travel Challenge – Day 3

Jackie at the the awesome World Wide Walkies blog, one of my favourite travel blogs, nominated me to participate in the Travel picture challenge. World Wide Walkies is a blogging gem, especially if your aspire to the nomad lifestyle with canine companions. The challenge is about visual images so we need to post a favourite travel picture … Continue reading Travel Challenge – Day 3

30th Dec 2020 Sharon Travel, Uncategorized

Travel challenge – day 2

Jackie at the the awesome World Wide Walkies blog, one of my favourite travel blogs, nominated me to participate in the Travel picture challenge. World Wide Walkies is a blogging gem, especially if your aspire to the nomad lifestyle with canine companions. The challenge is about visual images so we need to post a favourite … Continue reading Travel challenge – day 2

29th Dec 2020 Sharon Travel

Travel Challenge – day 1

Thank you to Jackie at the the awesome World Wide Walkies blog, one of my favourite travel blogs, for nominating me to participate in the Travel picture challenge. World Wide Walkies is a blogging gem, especially if your aspire to the nomad lifestyle with canine companions. Jackie has also published some wonderful travel memoirs, I … Continue reading Travel Challenge – day 1

3rd Dec 2020 Sharon environment, Travel

Bar life on the Granite Belt – (soap bar that is).

Just thought I would write about one of the best tips for making camping bathroom life easier and for reducing plastic use. It is the simplest thing to do and that is to switch to using a bar soap. When you combine the bar soap with a soap saver scrubbie bag it is even simpler. … Continue reading Bar life on the Granite Belt – (soap bar that is).

13th Nov 2020 Sharon dog friendly, Travel

Castles and wildflowers

Want to walk in the footsteps of bushrangers? Looking for a Granite belt nature experience to which you can take a dog? Or want to just check out some really big rocks. Then the Donnelly's Castle walk is definitely worth checking out. Don't let the name fool you, there is no castle in the traditional … Continue reading Castles and wildflowers

11th Nov 2020 G environment, Travel

A few critters in the spring

S and I went to Stanthorpe (QLD) last weekend, which we will post on in more detail later, and saw a lot of insects, birds and other creatures during our walks. Here are a few of their photos. It was good to see a lot of butterflies. This little fellow watched while sitting on a … Continue reading A few critters in the spring

30th Oct 2020 Sharon environment, Travel

Churchill and the Platypus

I doubt whether Hitler, even in his saner moments, could ever have had the delightful eccentricity of mind to ask for a duckbilled platypus in the middle of a war! (Fleay, 1980. p56.) public domain public domain The platypus goes to war. Due to some recent reading I was reminded of the top secret war … Continue reading Churchill and the Platypus

23rd Oct 2020 Sharon environment, Travel

Tiny teardrop vs giant luxury RV

“Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people that they don't like.”― Will Rogers I find myself reflecting on our materialist tendencies. Not so much our tendency to buy things we don't want but rather our tendency to buy more than we need. I recognise that sometimes … Continue reading Tiny teardrop vs giant luxury RV

21st Oct 2020 Sharon dog friendly, Travel

Green Maleny

So much for grand plans to post regularly, afraid last week got away from me a bit and then on the weekend we decided to do a quick overnight camp to the gorgeous village of Maleny in the Sunshine coast hinterland. Maleny is one of our regular back yard haunts and a fantastic option for … Continue reading Green Maleny

29th Sep 2020 Sharon dog friendly, Travel

Flanagan’s Reserve and Mt Barney

So needed a bit of tree time and decided to do a quick overnight camp at Flanagan's Reserve and do a walk in the Mt Barney National park. Since we were planning a national park walk and Bronte was staying home for work and study we thought this was a good opportunity to leave Ada … Continue reading Flanagan’s Reserve and Mt Barney

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#BookSnapSunday This is going to be the year of deep time and dinosaurs, dipping back into some dinosaur reading in preparation for some adventures in fossil and opal country. I never out grew dinosaurs they still captivate me. #bookkstagram #bookstargram #books #dinosaurs #fossil
Happy Easter! An Aussie kids book for #BookSnapSunday the beautifully illustrated The Drop Bear by Chris Esser, the story of the legendary drop bear the more dangerous cousin to the koala. Look after the bushland or the drop bear may drop on you. Love the illustrations in this gorgeous kids book and the message of caring for the bushland we visit. #BooksandCoffee
Need to get up earlier so I start day with s swim every day and not just on my late start day. #swimming #toowoombaregion #gettingfit? Morning swimming makes me happy
This week's #BookSnapSunday is Wyndham's creepy invasion tale The Midwich cuckoos, heavy on the cosy element, think Dr Who meets Midsomer murders. Love Wyndham's classic, very English sci-fi, really enjoying the #wyndhamalong2021 #bookkstagram #Books #booksandtea #midwichcuckoos
Just chilling with some classic sci-fi and my book buddy. Wyndham's The Midwich cuckoos, the ultimate creepy kids book. #wyndhamalong2021 #booksanddogs #bookstagram #books #rescuedogsofinstagram #rescuedogs
This week's #BookSnapSunday is Helen MacDonald's essays Vesper Flights. Astute observation combined with accomplished writing a delightful collection of essays for dipping into. We are camped near Stanthorpe this weekend and I was hoping to catch some of the local swallows in the background but they were way to quick for my phone, so just the gorgeous cover with the river in the background. #naturewriting #naturereading #nature #vesperflights #granitebelt #countrystylecaravanpark #books #bookstagram #bookstargram
Dinner is on. #campingwithdogs #camping #countrystylecaravanpark #granitebelt
Best apple berry pie in Aus,stopped for morning tea at Suttons on the way to an overnight camp.#suttonsjuicefactoryandcidery #granitebelt #applepie #qldregion #bigapple

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