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Day 9 was spent in Longreach walking part of the linear Longreach Botanic Walkway and visiting the cemetery in the morning; and seeing the QANTAS Founders Museum in the afternoon.

A couple of shots along the botanic walkway

Longreach Cemetery

Day 8 was the drive from Emerald to Longreach: A cup of coffee in Alpha and a break in Barcaldine to view the Tree of Knowledge. I don’t know when the tree was so named, and if the biblical half-reference was intended or not. This was our second tree visitation of the trip. One more to come!

Alpha street view. A bit early for much.

Barcaldine and the Tree of Knowledge

Day 7 saw us heading west towards our primary destinations of Longreach and Winton. Our overnight stop about half way was Emerald, but a little before Emerald is the small town of Comet which houses the Dig Tree carved by Ludwig Leichhardt in 1847. The tree was originally at the intersection of the Comet and Nogoa Rivers some seven kilometres north of its current location.

Leichhardt’s Dig Tree

The Emerald City (Town)

Day 6 was spent in Gladstone - spending time in Spinnaker Park in the morning and the Botanic Gardens in the afternoon.

In and around Spinnaker Park

The Queensland Alumina Limited alumina refinery

Botanic Gardens

Day 5 saw us driving from the Sunshine Coast to Gladstone. It was overcast most of the day with frequent rain.

We stopped for a morning coffee in Childers (opposite the site of the infamous Backpackers Hostel fire of 2000 when 15 people were killed).

After our arrival in Gladstone we stopped near Matthew Flinders bridge (a ‘bascule’ bridge) in Port Park and took some photos in the light drizzle.

Childers Palace Hotel

Gladstone - Port Park

Day 4 began with a trip to the Eumundi Markets followed by a look around Coolum and an afternoon stroll around Noosa Heads. It’s a tough life, but someone’s got to do it!

Eumundi Markets

Coolum (Wilkinson Park Lookout)

Noosa Heads

Noosa Architecture

Classic

Day 3 of a recent holiday saw us take in Maleny, the Glasshouse Mountains and Caloundra.

And how did April shape up? Poorly. The total was 393 comprising about a third from my daily Bible reading and devotionals with the other two thirds being a couple of short Christian books (Worthy by Sinclair Ferguson, and Absolute Surrender by Andrew Murray).

May is a holiday month and I have a couple of new books lined up: How to Think, and Breaking Bread with the Dead - both by Alan Jacobs.

For ever and a day (well, for the best part of a few decades) my go-to breakfast has been Weet-Bix. In winter I’ll have the occasional porridge, and in days gone by my summer input may have been Special K or Nutrigrain or Rice Bubbles or Weeties, but Weet-Bix was the norm.

Whilst we still have a couple of boxes of Weet-Bix (and All-Bran) in the cupboard (with a best by date of many months in the future) I’ve recently switched to muesli. And not off-the-shelf muesli, but home mixed muesli.

During the month of March I tracked the total number of pages I read. This was as a result of a video I saw by Parker Settecase on his youtube channel Park Notes.

The specific video was this one where he advocates logging ones reading on a daily basis. I came across the video in February so decided to commence in March.

So what was the answer? 512. Not much, but okay for someone who hasn’t felt like reading much since Christmas. Around a third of that reading is my daily Bible reading plan. Another third is a couple of Christian books I finished or started, and the final third comprises the rules or laws of Golf Croquet and Association Croquet¹.