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Beth54


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I'm at my sisters for a few days of fresh sea air, so if anyone's in the area PM me.

We had dinner last night at the Country Club, which is always great for a meal, and particularly good on a Friday night with raffles for the Coast Guard. I've won 3 prizes in the past, but no luck last night. B-i-l won $30 furit and vegie voucher so they were happy. There was also a band playing, and we thoroughly enjoyed them too.

Today we went for a drive north of here and through the forest roads, crossed the highway and kept heading west to find Miva and the Dickabram Bridge. The bridge is amazing..built between 1884 and 1886, it's survived many floods. There was lots of rubble against the fences and against the bridge. Amazing to think of the water getting that high. It's a long way down to the water.

There were a few campers there, so I asked if they were GN's, yes they were, but not OUR GN's. biggrin We had a good chat, had our picnic lunch there and enjoyued the lovely breeze in the shade of a huge Albizzia tree. We decided it'd be a nice place to camp for a couple of days, as JC & his lovely wife will be doing, along with glassies and Mr glassies. It's just a pity that my timing was out to join them.

The photos aren't great because I forgot to bring my camera up so used the phone.

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Remember TCB from my CMF Army days ...  Used to camp up there & shoot up the place with 105mms.

 

 "We had a good chat, had our picnic lunch there and enjoyued the lovely breeze in the shade of a huge Albizzia tree." 

....  I seem to recall that the Albizia has a common name "Flee Tree" ... don't know why ... hope it is not because it is a good host for flees ... probably not.   I thought that it was also nicknamed 'Cow Itch Tree', but on checking I found that that is the Norfolk Is Hibiscus.

Albizia lebbeck () is a species of Albizia, native to Indomalaya, New Guinea and Northern Australia[1][2] and widely cultivated and naturalised in other tropical and subtropical regions. English names for it include Lebbeck, Lebbek Tree, Flea Tree, Frywood, Koko and Woman's tongues Tree. The latter name is a play on the sound the seeds make as they rattle inside the pods. Being one of the most widespread and common species of Albizia worldwide, it is often simply called "siris" though this name may refer to any locally common member of the genus.[1]

 

 

Is a great tree, pretty in flower with its silky tassels, but a bit invasive. 

(Just more useless information from me)



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Well I can assure you they're still shootin' Cupie. And as of yesterday, they're doing burnoffs in readiness for the winter. So much smoke! Luckily it wasn't blowing our way.

 

I have to confess, I had to ask b-i-l the name of the tree. I knew the tree, but I'm not very good at remembering the names. They certainly are a wonderful shade tree.



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Hi Beth. Glad to see that you are relaxing and enjoying yourself. It will do you good.

Thanks for the pics too. It looks like a good spot.

Take care. smile



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Thanks Pam. Hope to see you soon.

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I met Popeye this morning!

Along with my sister and b-i-l, we met at Barnicles, overlooking the water at Tin Can Bay and spent a couple of hours having a good yarn.

Nice to meet you Popeye!

I'm heading home tomorrow after a lovely break in the fresh sea air.

 



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He's a really nice guy Beth .. I was fortunate to meet him some years ago in adelaide ..



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