My beach house

This is the photo of my beach house. My beach house is not the one circled, but up to left of the photo where the plainest path leads towards the sea, a small white house with a blue roof is beside my building.

Our old house in McKinlay

Our old house in McKinlay. Mary and Carmel went to state school here until 7th Grade.

Road trains

There would be 200 grown cattle on these trucks,and they travel 1000 klms. a day

The Church in Julia Creek

The church which Fr. Garvey had shifted, from Julia Creek to McKinlay, in 1961,and then he organised,the building of the present church in Julia Creek,which is a more modern building----it was a big project for him to organise. My dad and I helped to do a lot of jobs on the church after it arrived in McKinlay such as painting. He was there helping with this work as well,and he and Dad drank plenty of "stubbies" after the days work---He loved a drink.

My memory on our wood stove

This is the type of stove-wood stove that my mother ,then Dad and I used for cooking,up until 1960,after which we got a gas stove. Also my mother had one in the McKinlay house. I was the one that had to cut up the wood in short lengths for both stoves--a hard job which I hated.

Group at Tighe Re-Union in Brisbane

So happy time.

Visiting my HOME in Outback in Oct. 2007

Came back from trip on 23rd Oct.
Went from Nth. Entrance to Bulahdelah and to Townsville,4 days later to McKinlay for races,1 week later,then to Brisbane for my family Re-union on the 20th ,from Brisbane back to the farm,then next day back here.
Travellered about 6000 klms.in 3 weeks,but struck good weather most of the time and no rain.