Monday, May 2, 2016

ROAD TRIPPIN' AND ADVENTURES..

Another long weekend in Qld and we went on a quick road trip to Bundy with the van...
In for some updates and modifications for our trip away next year....
It was only to be a quick trip down and back...

Yesterday we decided to do a little exploring on our way home....
Since today was a holiday we didn't feel the urgency to get home and get jobs done before heading back to work today....

Every time we head to Bundy we notice little signs off the road to places like Winfield, Boaga and Miara so yesterday thought we would go and do a little exploring on our way home...
A trip that would normall take us 3 hours ended up taking us 8 and three quarter hours but we had a great day.

Our first stop was off into a sleepy little fishing village about half an hour north of Bundy...
Both of us remember going here when were we were young but it is certainly more than 30 years since we have been back in there....Nothing much has changed,  it is still the sleepy little fishing coastline which it was 30 odd years ago....It is kind of nice in a way....

The draive in was beautiful...
Amazing cloud formations and green county roads....
The photos don't really do it justice but the sky was amazing with thick puffy clouds,  clouds streamed across the sky and clouds that almost seem to be falling out of the sky.  It was really quite breathtaking....

Amazing cloud formations as we drove in
 
 
 The country side was beautiful, so lush and green and the grass grew right to the road edge.
The road in was really good too. 
 
Very pretty drive in

 Of course we had to check out the boat ramp first....
That is what happens when you are married to a keen fisherman....
Dead gum with an eagle's nest..
 Some of these trees even though dead are magnificent....  The floods of 2013 badly damaged the area and took away alot of the river bank,  killed a lot of trees....
Our sister in laws parents own a fishing shack up here and Tina's Dad just happened to be up here for the weekend so we stopped in and say hello and had a chat...

It was good catching up with Don,  he was able to fill us in on all the changes that have taken place here over the past 30 odd years.  In the floods he lost a good 60-70 metres of his front yard and now his shack is right on the edge of the river.  When the tide is high,  sometimes the water even goes under his shack...  During the flood,  the water almost covered the roof of the shack so he was pretty surprised to see it still standing....

They have had to do a hell of a lot of work just to fix it up and stablize it since the flood but he loves coming up here and gets up here every spare minute that he can.
The fishing shack rises up out of the salt plains

Don has his own private little beach here too...
Own private little fishing beach
Mr Pelican comes right in for a feed
Views up the river
Love the lines that those old dead mangroves have
Even something that has died can still be beautiful

 Steve got the grand tour from Don
Front yard has almost gone now....
Salt flats behind
Flood gates
Looking up to the mouth
 

 After leaving the boat ramp we decided to to in and check out the caravan park and the little we remembered of Miara beach itself....
The Caravan Park was pretty small although it seemed packed out for the long weekend...

Typically it is a fisherman's paradise so most people there were actually there to fish....
Panoramic view of Miara
Looking straight ahead to the mouth




Some campers were well set up...






Some campers were well set up.   I am hoping these guys were here for a week or more because they had so much stuff.  Huge packing up and cleaning up job if they were only there for three days.

We left here a little after 1pm and thought we would head through to Winfield and have some lunch there on the beach...
Well it didn;t quite pan out that way..
There is no beach at Winfield to sit on to have a picnic...
Winfield is a lot more developed than Miara.  It alsomst looks like it has become a  mini retirement village.  It reminded up a lot of Turkey Beach, and there is a lot of new development going on there.  No where though to sit and enjoy a nice picnic lunch...
Winfield
More mud than sand
Boat ramp
boats moored
Panoramic view of Winfield...
 We decided to have a late lunch and wait until we got to Mirriam Vale.  There is a lovely part there that we often stop at to have a meal or a rest so thought it would be much nicer surroundings than that at Winfield.

We arrived at Mirriam Vale around 2.45pm in the afternoon and headed straight to the spot where we would normally stop for a picnic lunch....
A lot of it was barricaded off and the flying fox have totally taken over the area... Suc a shame....
There was no way we were goign to sit under all the sqawking flying fox so decided to out up further along the road...

We left there just before 3.30pm with plans of being home before 6.30pm.  Even that change...
As we approached the turn off to Turkey Beach,  Steve thought it might be nice to drive on in there and say hi to his brother who was up there fishing with his boys.   The plan was to stop for 15 to 20 minutes but we were still there two ours later...

We didn't know it but it turned out Dave's wife Tina was also there so we ended up staying there a couple of hours catching up with them all.

We finally got home at 8.30pm  way later than we had anticipated but heck we had a great day of it and I hope that we get to do it again  soon.

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