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Bushman Bud on October 30th, 2010

G’day all, After staying over on in a small bush camp siding close to Rubyvale, we were back on the road to make the 9:15am tour of the Heritage Mine just outside Rubyvale.  This mine captures the history of the gemfields area surrounding the Emerald region. The tour takes you down and around the still operational sapphire mine [...]

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Bushman Bud on October 5th, 2010

G’day All, Time for Joey Jess to summit this mountain. Leaving Lake Tinnaroo at 5:30am we were caught out a little with the length of the drive to the walking track for the Bartle Frere summit.  This took us 1 hour and 15 mins meaning by the time we grabbed the back pack and sprayed [...]

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Bushman Bud on October 4th, 2010

G’day all, After climbing Mt Bartle Frere and getting so close to the summit with Joey Jess it was time to hook up the Kedron and head back to Lake Tinaroo so Joey Jess could have a crack at the summit on the West Track. Lake Tinaroo is such a beautiful place to relax and [...]

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Bushman Bud on September 23rd, 2010

G’day all, On the road early this morning and a trip to Port Douglas and Mossman Gorge. We arrived in Port Douglas around 9:00am and took sometime just walking the streets and browsing through a few shops.  It was great fun with the kids and yes…Bushman Bud ended up buying the kids some rather expensive [...]

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Bushman Bud on September 22nd, 2010

Gday all, We have been travelling with our good friends the Gray family for the past two weeks and were tossing up whether to travel further West with them or track back down some of the North QLD Coast that we have not seen yet, leaving the Top End for April next year. In the [...]

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Bushman Bud on September 21st, 2010

G’day all, We finally left lake Tinnaroo around 9:00am Monday morning heading towards Tolga and then onto Mareeba.  Just outside Tolga we got held up for a couple of hours waiting for the road to be cleared after a nasty accident and fatality. We had planned to visit the Coffee Factory in Mareeba and then [...]

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Bushman Bud on September 19th, 2010

G’day all, Our time at Lake Tinnaroo has sadly come to an end.  The wet season is fast approaching and we have still heaps that we want to see.  This place has been fantastic and rates highly as one of the better places we have stayed since our adventure started over a year ago.  We [...]

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Bushman Bud on September 16th, 2010

G’day all, The day finally arrived to tackle Queensland’s highest peak, Mt Bartle Frere at a respectable 1,622m.  Bartle Frere is in cloud 8 out of every 10 days so to get a day with bright sunny skies takes some doing.  Today was the day. The initial idea was to scout the track so that [...]

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Bushman Bud on September 12th, 2010

G’day all, We have been camped on the foreshore of Lake Tinnaroo for the past three days enjoying the brilliant sunny weather and placid calm picturesque waters of the lake.  Got to say this is one of the special places we have visited where time stands still while you get to enjoy the beauty and [...]

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Bushman Bud on August 4th, 2010

  G’day all, The day had finally arrived…our chance to enjoy being at the most Northern Tip of Australia, Cape York Penninsula, QLD…yeah!!! Video: Cape York Peninsula_Northern Tip of Australia_QLD The plan was to travel to Punsand Bay, drop the camper trailer off, take the 4WD track up the coast through to the main access road [...]

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