Queensland

Tal has really taken to learning to cook lately and is helping so much, he especially enjoys lighting the gas burners (pyromania?) When we left Coonabarabran I missed the turn off for Narrabri and I only realised we were on the wrong road after 25kms of some very steep up and down hills, very frustrating having to turn around and retrace our steps and ended up being a long day in the bus. She is not the fastest vehicle on this earth but we are getting there. We drove the car out from Narrabri to the Mt. Kaputar National Park to see “Sawn Rock”, an amazing example of the rock formation commonly known as organ piping. Columns of six sided basalt standing vertically on a cliff face, some having fallen down to the ground beneath and lying on interesting angles, quite a phenomonem. Have been collecting some great pictures of post boxes lately, the lengths some people go to is quite amazing and it keeps us looking as we are travelling. We have about a dozen beauties so far and I hope to get about 100 pictures by the end of our trip and maybe make a book of them. Rennie lost her two bottom teeth last week, they were very wobbly and she actually pulled them out herself, one day apart, maybe she will become a dentist? She also caught her first fish this morning at the caravan park in Goondiwindi, they have a dam at the back that they have stocked with fish. It is a great place here, they cook pancakes for the whole campsite on Sunday mornings, you bring your own plates and have a great feed. It has just started raining here, the first bit of rain we have seen for some time, and with the palm trees becoming more abundant we can tell we are heading into the tropics. It was Jarra’s 2nd. Birthday last week and I gave him some chocolate and marshmallows for breakfast, much to Helen’s surprise.