Tuesday....17 August

Took a quick trip into Pt Douglas on Sunday for a look see. Trust us to pick Sunday market day. We had hoped to spend some time with young Brendan, who lives there since his mother moved for her work and  maybe do lunch and have him show us the sights of Pt Douglas, but we had no contact numbers and all attempts to get them failed. Am not sure why some people have phones if they do not answer them or return calls. A disappointing day.
Spent today with Christine Kerslake (nee Carroll).  Turns out she is only 45kms up the road from here where they settled when they left Weipa.  Couple of phone calls and we spent most of today visiting with her and her husband at their lovely home in the hills, about half an hour out of Pt Douglas. They have a six acre block, about half of which is still natural rainforest, complete with small creek at the bottom boundary. They have seen platypus in the creek and have small wallabys that occasionally pop in for a snack of bread on the back patio. While we were there we saw curlews, a bush turkey and the most stunningly beautiful bright blue butterflys. She told us stories of the various snakes they have seen around the property including one about watching a python catch then eat a rat! They are going to come into town for lunch one day if we stay in the area long enough. The photo on todays blog was taken in Christines garden.