Brisbane, Toowoomba, Dalby, Childers, Miles, Roma, Injune, Carnarvon Gorge, Emerald, Blackwater, all the way across to Gracemere, The edge of Rockhampton, Agnes Water, Childers, Gympie and home....over 2080 km. Monday to Friday. What a great trip.
Carnarvon Gorge...what an awesome place, visit if you can.
I am home now, weary and sore. Still quite tight and tired in the legs. I thought it was all gone yesterday, but I guess it's going to take a while longer to repair. 13 km is a distance I never thought I would walk again. No regrets whatsoever!!
Having grown up a Queenslander, I really didn't know much about the western towns. Emerald is a much larger town than Roma. I was very surprised to find that when we came into Emerald, there was large shopping centres just down the road from each other. It is a very spread out town. Even McDonalds was the other end of town to these two shopping centres.
Emerald is also famous for the very large Picasso painting sitting on an easel in the town park.
There was also the most beautiful breeze in town, which was very welcome after arriving after dark after our 8 hour long trek. We all slept very well that night.
I was a little upset that I couldn't see any water at Agnes Water. Except that we were shouted out to dinner at a lovely place right on the water, but it was after dark. The girls took off to the beach so I made a cuppa, rang my sister and sat.
I was a bit afraid that I had really damaged myself, but as the evening went on and I moved a little more walking to and from the car as we went out for dinner, I felt my legs were freeing up a little. By the next morning. I thought, well there you go, back to normal, so I drove from Agnes to Childers.
Even though, I am almost back to normal again. I think it is going to take a bit longer as whenever walking around today, 3 days after our big walk, I am still tiring very quickly and my feet still feel quite tight.
I will never regret what I did, walking that 13km, but I don't think my body will ever let me do it again. I felt very fragile and still do a little. But so overwhelmed with the awesomeness of Gods creation out there, I want to tell everyone to go and see it if they can.
Awesome sunsets are another gift that graced us as we flew along that highway from Carnarvon Gorge to Emerald. Just beautiful countryside. Also the amount of large raptor birds we saw was amazing. I have never in my life seen that many in one week, even when I went to the Healsville sanctuary in Victoria a couple of years back. Unfortunately, there was not the opportunity to photograph them as we needed to be driving a lot of hours each day.
And this last one is from Agnes Water.
We drove home on Friday, it was about an 8 hour trip. Stopping in Childers near Bundaberg and seeing the helicopter flying around the town, searching for a little lost 3 yr old who went missing from her bed. This is always a very frightening time for everyone involved and locals alike, but I woke this morning and reading the news, saw she had been found, alive, overnight. Not too far from home. So many questions to be asked!!!
Well back to life as we know it. Easter is a week away. Lyn is off south for Easter with Family. Gretchen leaves for USA in a couple of weeks, Tish is back up on the Sunshine Coast for a wedding today, so when she gets home on Monday she will have a week of school holidays left before returning to teaching. This coming week I need to get back in the pool, get back into my routine of swimming, and catch up with my precious sister who will also be going back to work teaching after next week.
I am at the moment enjoying my precious little Nikki. Who has followed me around the house since getting back. And Marcus, well, he just continues being noisey and hungry!! lol
Nikkita
Marcus
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