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Monthly Archives: October 2007

Local Roadworks have Arrived at Our Place

For about 2 weeks now we have had the council preparing for the new road that is going to built outside our place. First they brought the excavators in to clear away all the trees and bushes. Now they have brought trucks in to take away the tonnes of dirt that is lying around.

Before our trip to Noosa we asked the overseer of the roadworks if they could dump some dirt at our place, and they did – over 20 truck-loads of it. If you knew the average weight of dirt you’d be able to figure out how much it weighed. My dad said that 1² metre of dirt would roughly equal 1 tonne (1 metric ton). That means that if there is 8 tonnes of dirt in each of the 20 truckloads there would be about 160 tonnes of dirt in total.

Anyway, following is some photos of what’s happening. As in the last post, I am including captions with the images.

Roadworks #1
Two excavators working just opposite our place (well the red one anyway).

Roadworks #2
Three trucks waiting to be filled while the fourth one is departing.

Roadworks #3
A grader and compacter working at the intersection between Adelaide Park Rd and Woodbury Rd.

Roadworks #4
Some more machines working. Photo taken near the intersection.

[tags]roadworks, adelaide park, woodbury[/tags]

October 3, 2007 – 12:45 pm | Posted in Daily Life, Information for Locals, Photography, Woodbury, Bungundarra & Adelaide Park | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Noosa (Cooroy) Botanical Gardens

On the last day of our holidays at Noosa (a Saturday), my family and I drove to Cooroy to see the Botanical Gardens there. Although not as big or popular as the Rockhampton Botanical Gardens, it did have an auditorium and a good variety of different plants and flowers, something that is missing from Rockhampton’s Botanical Gardens.

Cooroy Botanical Gardens 1
This is the auditorium. To get an idea of the size, look just below the left columns and you can see a person.

Cooroy Botanical Gardens 6
An amazingly bright plant with pink in the middle. No modifications either.

Cooroy Botanical Gardens 4
These heart-shaped sprinklers were used extensively throughout the gardens.

Cooroy Botanical Gardens 3
Another strange flowering plant.

Anyway, we walked around for a couple of hours and then we had lunch. While we were eating some fairly tame ducks and geese came up to see if we would give them something to eat.

Cooroy Botanical Gardens 2
While walking along my mum saw this crow throwing rubbish out of the bin in search of food.

Cooroy Botanical Gardens 5
These two geese were the least afraid of us. The food they’re eating was left there by someone who had eaten before us (I think).

In this post I have put captions underneath each photo, so let me know if you like it like that.

[tags]noosa, cooroy, botanical gardens, holiday, travel[/tags]

October 1, 2007 – 3:57 pm | Posted in Daily Life | Tagged , , , , | Comments (2)

Walking at the Noosa Headland National Park

While we were down in Noosa we did a few walks on the Noosa Headland National Park. At the start of the track they had lots of information signs with clever designs. There were also lots of little freshwater streams running beside and over the paths, probably as a result of the flood-inducing rain that Noosa had received before we arrived. There were great views all along the track, so I took quite a lot of those type of shots.

Noosa Headland 1

Noosa Headland 6

Noosa Headland 4

Noosa Headland 3

One of the beaches that we discovered on the walk had thousands of medium-sized smooth rocks all over it – you can see a Contrasting Sharply photo of them as well as the ones below. An amazing thing about these rocks is that they were really bouncy. I threw one of them as hard as I could at the other ones and it must have bounced about 8 times!

Noosa Headland 5

Noosa Headland 2

October 1, 2007 – 3:36 pm | Posted in Daily Life, Photography | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Geocaching at Noosa

Ok, geocaching in the Noosa/Noosaville area was a bit of a disappointment because I couldn’t find any, even though I went looking for 4 of them. In case you’re interested, I looked for the following caches: James Duke Bridge, Wallace Park, Look in Ernest and Weyba Not Look Here #4.

I think I’ve said it once before, but I’ll say it again: Geocaching is a great way of finding those hidden spots that only the locals know about. If you want to find out more about the sport, go to geocaching.com, the home of geocaching.

October 1, 2007 – 3:00 pm | Posted in Daily Life | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

Holidays at Noosa

The reason I haven’t posted for 15 or so days is because my family and I, along with my cousins and there family, have been down in Noosa enjoying the school holidays. Instead of trying to write about everything I did in one post, I’ve decided to just write about the more interesting things that my family and I did in three separate posts. Those three posts will cover my geocaching experience, our day at the Botanical Gardens and the walks we did around the Noosa Headland.

I should be posting about them in the next hour or so. BTW, the resort we were staying at was called Coral Beach Resort.

Holidays at Noosa

October 1, 2007 – 1:27 pm | Posted in Daily Life | Tagged , | Comments (0)