More Giants

At Denmark I went to the Valley of the Giants tree top walk, I got a bit anxious as the walkway swayed under me, luckily I was mostly on my own. The trees are amazing

The trees are huge and apparently shallow rooted so the walkway keeps them safe

After the walkway I got down on the ground and followed the boardwalk

Grandma Tingle

Such beautiful colour on the bark

Sculptures were around amongst the trees, I didn't find them all

The fairy wrens are so cute, the real ones are all through the bush here.

Enough for now I think

Happy stitching.

Tiki tour day 3

Today was a travelling day from  Echuca to Forbes,  we called at Deniliquin to the Info centre and found an exhibition of modern quilts so had a quick look

Beautiful quilt ,we also found a painted water tower, one we had seen before

Further up the road we saw cattle feeding on the side of the road

Wide open spaces and long straight roads of Australia

We had a stop at Narrandera and saw the world's biggest playable guitar

Interesting sky

Arriving in Forbes late afternoon we went for a walk

Nice to see this old pub being done up

This sculpture was by an intersection in town

This one was in a little park

Dog waiting for his master outside the shops.

We met up with the American girls for dinner but didn't take any photos, very slack of us!!

Another day of Adventure tomorrow. 

Happy stitching. 

Back from holidays - photo heavy

 We have spent the last 10 days at Coolum Beach in Qld, a very nice change from the cold weather we had been having here at home. 

Our first afternoon/evening we had a walk along the beach

There were beautiful colours in the sky and on the beach as the sun went down

and the moon appeared

We had a lovely dinner at the Surf Club to cap off a very pleasant although tiring  day.

The next morning saw an 8.30 beach walk

Lots of people were out walking

This group of people had been swimming

Later in the day we met some friends from Perigian Springs and Sue and I went to find an Adventure Lab

One answer we needed was by the water tower, the views were wonderful

then we went down to the beach, I had an unsuccessful attempt at finding a cache and hot my feet full of thorns - note to self no stomping around in the bush in bare feet!

I did manage to find this cache after standing under it for a while 😀

View as we left this part of the beach.

another late afternoon/evening walk along the boardwalk above the beach at Coolum.

It was very peaceful watching the waves roll in.

After a rest day Sue and I were off following Adventure Labs again, this was at a war memorial at Buderim

This was one of the original houses in the town, closed when we were there sadly but it has been well looked after

Then we went on to the Maroochydore Botanic Gardens - more of a native gardens

with interesting sculptures

this was in the sculpture garden area

as was this snake sculpture

it was a beautiful pace to wander around in, so many beautiful trees

I didn't take photos of every sculpture although it was tempting!

I liked this little guy

and this area was beautiful, so peaceful

this gate was something we needed to find to answer a question in the Adventure Lab there.

Are you still awake and with me?

I think I had better stop there for now

Happy stitching.