From Carnarvon Gorge to Rubyvale Qld

Hi once again from us here in the mid north of Qld we are presently in Rubyvale the place to find your fortune but before I show you some of the history as to where we have been since our last entry.

Carnarvan Gorge,

After a 12 Km, dusty rough road we arrived at a park situated among tall trees and loads of dust and decided to stay for 2 nights as we wanted to do a number of walks into the gorge one of these was a 11Km long walk to the Cathedral with a couple of side treks.





Bianka and I attended the Dawn service on Anzac day, which was held at the lookout in the park, when the service was over, the sun came up over the Gorge.





We headed of approximately at 9 am for our walk into the gorge, the path took us along the river and criss crossed from one side to the other 21 times, one way. Water flowed but was very low,





we diverted into


The Moss Garden Gorge which due to the dampness, beautifull mosses grow and this was awe inspiring.




Three and a half hours later we arrived at:


The Cathedral which has a lot of aboriginal paintings, worth the walk (lost another 3 Kilos) then heading back it, became hard as walking a total of 26 Km and crossing 42 water crossings ie no mean fete, but we did it,





I also diverted into the Amphitheater which was absolutely fantastic to see especially after having had to climb ladders and it was up hill al the way.








Anyway we did it although I must confess we felt pretty sore and a chardonnay fixed most of this at happy hour.








A well deserved Rest Next day and Sunday the 26th we moved on to Emerald for a 3 night stay, interesting place as this is the town with the largest Paint Easel and a painting of a vase and flowers in the main park.











The park we stayed at is Maraboon CP which is by a lake and is famous for trapping Red Claw, and its warm nights, thus see the photo of a great sunset over the Lake then Dinner and a show

Friends in the park








Saying farewell on the Lake Dam wall






From Emerald we moved a short distance to Rubyvale (45K) where we are staying till Wednesday ie. seven days. Rubyvale a small town where fossicking for Gem stones, ie. Sapphires, all kinds of colour are
found here red, yellow, blue being the dominant colour.








We went to the Miners Cottage and purchased buckets of Wash This you wash in whats called a Willy Wash

than sort




and find, great fun, we spend a many an hour at this and managed to get a few stones.









From this:










to this.








A typical Mine in Rubyvale QLD









Friends on the road from Saphire to Rubyvale






A few more days of relaxing and on the road again and heading for Longreach mid week, so see you from there.