Wedding # 1 For The Year

It's excitement plus back home and I am so glad I made it home in time for all the fun and celebrations.

Mum & Dad's daughter Amy is getting married tomorrow. I was back in time from Townsville to go to Amy's kitchen tea.





My mum decorated the apron and we all got to write messages on it. We partied for 6 hours at her kitchen tea.



Can you see me in the apron pocket? That's Josephine on the right, she's Amy's Maid of Honour. I have now been invited to go on her honeymoon in November to New Zealand.

Josephine is mum & dad's niece and both used to spend a lot of their school holiday's in each other homes. I sent a few weeks up at Josephine's parent's sheep station back in February.

Better go and get fitted for my wedding clothes.......

Eat more chicken.

Final Postcard From Townsville

Mum mum mum mum,

D'you know how I saw that crocodile..... well when we were finished looking at the Wallaman, we saw a big black emu with a blue neck and two red dangle things! I said "Crikey, look there's a bleedin' big chick over there, it looks like a bleedin' emu!" and holiday dad said "That no bleedin' emu pig, thats a Cassowary and its a male and they does all the looking after the little cassowaries!" and then I said, "Lookout there's two chicks with 'im and he's coming right for us!"





While male cassowaries can be dangerous when they are looking after young ones and they have a big toe which they use as a defence weapon and they can tear ya guts out. So you are meant to put your backpack on your front and carefully walk away backwards.

Well holiday dad turned his backpack around and that meant I was in the first line of defence!!!

I said, "Crikey holiday dad, that bleedin' emu is gonna gut me first before it guts you!" and holiday dad just said "Its a cassowary pig, a cassowary..."





Well after we reached safety we saw these two little birds, one is a Spectacled Monarch because he can't see without his glasses (Fred Hollows should get onto that one) and the other




is a Eastern Yellow Robin, so I started singing, "When the Rob Rob Robin, comes Bop Bop Bobbing along..." and holiday dad said "It's a yellow robin pig, a yellow one..."

After we left Ingham we went back to Townsville and me and holiday dad rode our bikes around looking for Townsville icons so I could get my photo taken.

We found two.




The Sugar Shaker is a hotel in the middle of town.





Castle Hill is a big pink rock (I like pink) in the middle of town.






The last photo is me standing on top of Mt Marlow, over looking the Town Common (Townsville wetlands) and in the distance you can see Castle Hill (on the left) and a bit of the suburbs. The airport is the other side of the swamp.

Goodbye Townsville!

Eat more chicken.


Love
Percy.

Dear Percy,

My word you sure had some exciting times in this postcard. Those birds are so pretty. I love the "sugar shaker" what a great name for the building.

Good to read you were out getting some exercise with bike ridding too.

Thanks so much to Holiday mum & dad for hosting you up in Townsville and showing you around.

Now hurry home as Amy's getting married this weekend and your booked on the honeymoon cruise to Fiji with them.

Love
Mum

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Wallaman Falls

Hey Mum,

You know how Holiday Dad promised me a waterfall to visit... well the weather was pretty wet up here so travelling around was a bit risky: there was even a Cyclone off the coast!

So after that passed and time was running out, we went to Wallaman Falls.





Wallaman Falls are the longest and highest falls in Australia, its nearest town is called Ingham which has a history of cane fields and the industrious and productive Italian migrants who came to Australia looking of the promised land. Well they found it in the fertile soils and high rainfall in this area.

Holiday Dad says he has been to Wallaman before in the dry season but really wanted to see it in the wet. And boy was the drive up there fun! Driving through the wet rain-forest into the mountains.



Here are some pictures of me standing at the top lookout of Wallaman Falls looking down. With all the water gushing over the top, the water was spraying down the gorge and everything was getting really, really wet.

The noise was amazing, it sounded like the Fokker F28 Airplane that I caught on the way up to Mangolia!!!




Here are some more shots of me at the waterfalls.






This one I was half way down and already into the spray of the waterfall..... it was a 240m drop in altitude from the top to the bottom and it was off the steep cliff.

The goat track zigged and zagged its way down the muddy slops and was full of bird nest ferns and vines with spines.

This photo was shot when I got down to the bottom and we were all wet and muddy. There was a river flowing down the stones and I am real glad that Holiday Dad had his waterproof backpack for me to travel in. I only got a bit damp for the photo opportunities, otherwise I was snug and dry inside.


More photos soon mum

Eat more chicken.

Love Percy.


Dear Percy,

Gosh those photos are amazing, I have only ever seem little waterfalls. So glad you didn't get lost and found having a mud bath.....lol

I can almost hear the water falling in the photos.

Love
Mum.

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Tea Rooms Pt 2

Dear Mum,

At the tea rooms is an old train tunnel that goes under the mountain. Here are some pics of me looking at it from a distance.




Here I am at the other side if the tunnel.





Behind me is the old train line that goes into the tunnel.




Wonder if I should take a closer look at the tunnel?






We went inside the tunnel and there was a snake and there were lots of bats. Lots of darkness and there were lots more bats and more bats still!!!!

One of the bats brushes up against me! Oink!






Yay made it to the other side.


Uncle PNG Steve says they eat bats in PNG!

Eat more bats.


Love
Percy.


Dear Percy,

I loved the bat and snake photos. I haven't seen a lot of bats in my life time, closest was back in 1980. Love snakes and I have a photo of me holding a big python.

Love all the greenery in the photos and glad you didn't get run over by a ghost train.

Love
Mum.

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Tea Rooms Pt 1

Hi Mum,




We went to Hervey's Tea Rooms and had a cup of tea. But none of that $50 coffee!!
Its really nice and green up here and its much cooler than Townsville and real country fresh air.



There is a waterfall with Pandanus.





The cow paddock is nice and green.



There is a creek next to the tea rooms.


Also at the tea rooms, you can go on a nature walk and see heaps of pretty Butterflies and spiders.

Check them out mum!!!












Pretty cool huh mum??

Eat more chicken.

Love
Percy.


Dear Percy,

How about that, drinking tea in a tea room, sounds like my sort of outing. All that greenery is lovely. We have a tinge of green back home here now.

Those spider photos are so cool....love spiders. Butterflies are pretty too.

Love
Mum.

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Crikey

Hi Mum,
Holiday Dad and I were riding the bike along the Ross River when we saw this big crocodile! I said "Crikey!"

Fun stuff

Eat more chicken.

Percy.


Dear Percy,

Now your talking my talk..... how lucky are you to have seen a crocodile in his natural environment. One day I hope to see one like you did.

Good to see your out exercising after all that drinking in Canberra.

Love
Mum

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More From Percy

Hey Mum,

I should get a job with Keith Conlin eh?




I have had some fun mum,I saw this strange sculpture behind me at Dan Gleeson's Garden. Up here in the tropic there are two days of the year when the sun is directly over head and nothing casts a shadow.

These sculptures capture that light and make all of the pretty patterns with their coloured glass.




Then in Anderson's Garden, I got confused, this sign told me to go "One Way", but the arrow was heading in two directions.

These Queenslanders sure are kooky!


Then I saw the "Speed Trap" sign and I just had to have my photo taken.

I'm saying "Slow Down or the Pig will get ya!"

Ha ha ha!

Eat more chicken.

Love
Percy.


Dear Percy,

Love those signs, the one way is so funny. Those garden visits have been lovely to read about.

Love
Mum.

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Garden Visits Pt 2

Hey Mum,

Check out the Bamboo!


I found these in Anderson's Garden.


I reckon I'd get lost if I went inside!

So many tree shots to show you.



There is a Big Qld Bottle Tree, just like a camel, this tree can store water in its big fat belly just for droughts and stuff. Maybe Homestead Holiday dad needs some of these?




Here I am climbing a Palm Tree, which it has been claimed, has the largest Biomass of any tree in the world........I still don't know what that means.





Look at the crazy bark on this tree.




Then I got trapped inside a Fig Tree. Heelllppppp!!!!

Love Percy.



Dear Percy,

Sorry there has been a delay in posting your photos here. Getting very close to real sister Amy's wedding. I hope you'll be back here in time, as you are going on the honeymoon with them.

Love those tree photos. I like bamboo, its such a great plant.

Love

Mum.


Petunia has left for America at 6 am this morning. Her photos will come home with her. I do hope her holiday family have the most wonderful holiday.

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