Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Australia Day

We have a friend from the US, Mike, staying with us for a while, so yesterday we did a day trip up to a small town in Queensland called Rathdowny. This involved driving down to Kyogle and then heading north west and then north along the Lions Road. Very scenic drive that skirts along the Border Ranges National Park and then cuts through the park before heading down into Queensland. This sign was at the NSW/QLD border...I wonder what you get for heroin trafficking if keeping a bunny can cost ya $30k!
We were also intrigued by the number of speed/security cameras at the border, too. Count them, I think you'll find there are 4. Are they watching whose coming in or leaving, I wonder?

We enjoyed lunch at the Rathdowny Pub, before having an ice cream in front of the butchers. Mike and Steve in front of the window. We weren't sure what 'Service kills' actually means. We thought we'd give the tripe and lambs' brains a miss.


This is a very distinctive volcanic plug called Mt Barney that is a major feature of the Rathdowny landscape.



And we're always amazed at these 'forests' of grass trees that occur around our region, especially in the Kyogle area.




1 comment:

Dr. Mieke said...

:-) I didn't know that Tripe *had* brains. Well, you learn something new every day!