Hi all, time for an update, we haven’t had much info
for you all lately.
Firstly, a sad farewell to liz and al, was great to
have them with us for the week.
We have had a continuous flow of guests now and
getting busy again with school holidays starting which always brings them in.
Also, we have the “dig team”, (consists of Professor
Mike Archer and his entourage of about 30 – mix of palaeontologists and
extras), here for ten days and they head to Riversleigh fossil fields to
conduct more research and digging looking for further fossil examples, yeah I
know got Les, that’s enough fossil.
Would you believe they have found shrimp sperm fossils
in the limestone at Riversleigh, this was a very recent find, bloody amazing I
reckon.
They come into Adels Grove and stay here then head to
the fossils site. Les is going for a day trip with them which would be very
beneficial to his tours and study of the area.
One of Les’s tours up the escarpment was a bit of a challenge the other day as the
grader was out the back of the station cleaning up the tracks and got himself
well and truly stuck on the creek bank which we need to cross.
He wasn’t going anywhere and had started walking back
to where his vehicle was, some 4-5 k’s away.
Unfortunately, we couldn’t get past him in the
troopie, so had to radio back to Adels and get them to meet us on the other
side of the creek, which meant the customers and Les had walk through the creek
to get to the other side for pick up.
We had rdo on Friday and went for drive and a look
around the area. We went to the Lillydale Way Station which was used by the Cobb
and Co coaches back in late 1800’s into early 1900’s. Found some interesting
items out there. It sits on a spring fed creek which runs all year.
The Station was a stopping point for the coaches to
feed and water the horses and customers on their way to Burketown.
They would then also stop at Sam Ah Bow’s market
gardens for food.
Les has also been taking boat tours on the creek at
Adels and has started boat tours on the creek in the gorge at the National
Park. They have obtained two BBQ boats from Lake Moondarra at Mt Isa which are
used here on the creek. One is normal outboard and the other for the Nat Pk had
to be converted to solar/electric motor.
Some pics to keep you interested
John and Dianne's garden
John getting the boat on the gorge ready, note the roof is all solar panels
Les taking the first guests on the gorge tour, they were impressed, they flew in for a couple of nights. The pilot lives at Stanthorpe right beside the airport and they taxi from their property straight onto the runway
The largest freshie seen in the gorge, good size, we estimate
about 3 metres
Us visiting an old silver mine which the Afghans
were using during the late 1800' into 1900's
\Yes Susan on the phone actually got reception
Wedge tailed Eagle having a feed and taking off as Les approached for photos
Check Susan the aviator in the back of the bosses
plane the other day, he took us for an hour
flight around the area, spectacular, will
include more pics next round
Susan on the phone again
Les and his customers in front of the grader which blocked the creek crossing
Remains of the old truck from the Lillydale Way Station
