Yesterday was my second outing with the ladies from Circle of Friends and we went for a drive up to Mt Archer for morning tea together and then from a lovey walk along the boardwalk...
There were a dozen of us ladies and rather than us all take our cars up, we met at the church and split up into groups of 4 so we only needed to take up four cars....
We arrived up there around 9.45am and headed to one of the picnic table areas where we all shared morning tea together...
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| Our destination for morning tea.. |
It was lovely to see so many other people up there enjoying the great outdoors. There were a couple of traveling families up there, and a group of artists who had set up and were either drawing of painting some of the grass stick plants. In fact it made me want to have a go at doing it also.
Once everyone had made their way to our picnic area, it was time to pull out all the goodies for morning tea...
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| Enjoying morning tea together up on Mt Archer |
I am still not totally into the swing on how morning teas work with this group of ladies, When I got the text from Di, she just said to bring your own morning tea, but it appears that everyone brings a small amount and it is just pooled on the table and shared..
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| My morning tea |
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| Sharing a cuppa with a plate of food... |
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| Joyce, Di and I |
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| sandwiches and slice |
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| Sharyn took any seat she could find.. |
These are a lovely group of ladies and the conversations flow quite naturally. I had a good chat to Coral who has spent a good part of the last few years traveling around our wonderful country and we were comparing notes of some of the places we have been... There is a lot more I could learn from her.
After our morning tea, we packed everything away and then decided to do a circuit walk along the board walk.
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| Setting off on our walk |
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| The views were really quite spectacuar |
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| Lovely board walk, suitable for people in wheelchairs to enjoy also.. |
The plant life is quite lovely up here at the moment with quite a few of the plants flowering. In particular all the grass trees look spectacular...
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| Flowering grass trees |
Everyone wandered along at their own pace, some stopping to admire the different plants, other's exporing different areas and some going ahead to the viewing platform...
There are a couple of viewing platforms that give you wonderful views of Rockhampton and the winding Fitzroy River and it was interesting to hear and watch the ladies pointing out the different landmarks around town from this vantage point...
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| Views of Rockhampton from the top of Mt Archer |
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| Lovely view of the Fitzroy river as it winds around the city. |
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| Some of the residential homes built up on top of Mt Archer... |
Of course this spot was another great spot to have a group photo taken...
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| Kay and Heather |
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| Enjoying the views. |
Our walk ended back at the newly built amphitheatre which also over looks the city.
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| Views from the amphitheatre |
There was obviously an art group up here this morning painting what looked to be some of the plant life and they were scattered around this top park area...
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| Artists at work |
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| Part of the picnic area - this is the next stage to be redeveloped... |
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| getting ready to head home |
What a lovely morning it has been. It is actually nice to get out, enjoy the great outdoors and in the company of lovely women. Normally they would have 10 weeks of activities all planned out but with the covid restrictions this year, the ladies went for three months without getting together.. This is only their third week back meeting, so at this stage they have been deiding from week to week what the following weeks activities will be...
Next week we have decided to do some exploring around Lake Mary and Mt Hedlow and then end up in Yeppoon for lunch. A much bigger day planned. I am looking forward to this...
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