Back to Normal

Helen went home last Tuesday and life has returned to normal.  Before she left we took a trip on the Mary Valley Rattler.  The Mary Valley runs from the Hinterland behind Noosa to Maryborough and the sea.  A narrow gauge railway line was established between the little town of Imbil  and the large town of Gympie  over a hundred years ago.  It was closed down about thirty years ago and resurrected by volunteers about twenty years ago as a tourist attraction.

We drove to Gympie for the start at 9.00am and watched the engine being coupled to the old carriages.  The following photos were taken by me and Helen has many more on her Face Book page.

 The first few kilometres were through fairly flat farming land

 before we started the climb up the Mary Valley

 Smoke gets in your eyes!

 Crossing the Little Yabba Creek into Imbil

 Going Home

  

We had lunch in Imbil where the local Historical Society enacted a totally fictitious Bush Ranger attack.  The last Bush Ranger around this area was in the 1800s.

We got back to Gympie about 4.00pm after a fun day.

Margaret and I stayed at Imbil several times in our caravan with our large poodle Pierre.  It was a favourite spot


While Helen was here we made several MOW runs together including one from Noosa Heads down the coast Marcus Beach which I hadn't done before.  It took us three hours because of the distance,  the large number of clients and the fact that I had to look up each address on the map.  I thinks that a GPS is called for.  Over a couple of weeks we stood in several times because of other volunteers being away.

I have had little opportunity for cycling because of the rainy weather but as we enter Autumn it should get drier and I shall be out and about more.

One sad thing is that my good neighbour, Bunty, is moving to a retirement village next weekend.  She was the one who helped me immediately after my stoke and her prompt actions helped minimise it's affects.