Judy & Brian Tour Oz

  Port Douglas Qld July 27th 2023 Took my morning stroll out along Mowbray Road, down across the creek of the same name and up into the back blocks. The sun was actually shining and it was quite pleasant. Mountains behind caravan park, Glengarry Qld One of my favourite bridges has had a facelift and been saved from demolition. I was just walking over it when the men from the local council turned up to inspect the vandal damage to the not even 4 week old reno. They have put bollards along each side and joined them with a nice 2 inch thick rope in the form of a handrail. Very decorative and stops us pedestrians from walking off the side of the bridge. One of these ropes had been cut right through. Must have taken some effort to do this. The air was blue with what the engineer said! And he was right, a very apt descriptive name for people who do this sort of thing. PS: two days later the rope on the other side was cut as well. Let me bore you with a bridge story.... The first br...

Today the car was due at Stillwell Ford for it's 15,000km service. We turned up about 930, left the car  for their attention and took advantage of the courtesy car into town. We walked up and down Rundle Mall, checking out some of the large and glossy department stores before walking down King William Street to Victoria Square and thence into the Central Markets. One thing for sure, the howling wind was glacial and we both froze our chops off before gratefully turning into the marketplace itself. These markets are quite similar to the Vic Markets in Melbourne but with more emphasis on fresh food and goodies and almost none of the tat that makes up a lot of the Vic. We took coffee and a yummy Portuguese Tart and a Lemon Flan at Lucia's, not the only coffee shop there but probably the best that we saw. After marching up and down all the aisles and back and forth across all the rows, we  went back up toward Rundle Mall looking for lunch and perhaps a visit to the SA Museum. ...