Townsville

We went for a drive to Townsville where we climbed to the top of Castle Hill. It was steep, narrow and tiring, but the Navara Diesel coped well with it. Some poor dogs had to walk the 2.9 km up there so the council has put a dog water fountain alongside the human water fountain. Here I am at the top looking towards the Townsville beaches. I had a run on the dog beach, and found some sea glass.

We moved on yesterday to Innisfail. It started raining 2 hours before we arrived and has not stopped. I had a brief run on the paddock behind the park and since then it is just a quick trip out and then back inside to get out of the rain. Playing fetch under the caravan annex is not much fun.

Tropical Life

It has been a beautiful day here in Tropical Queensland. I have had my morning run on the big open space at the back of the caravan park, then we went for a drive into Ingham. When we got back I went for another run and then had to have a lie down in the shade of the palm trees surrounding the caravan.

What a tough life I have.

Turkey Spotting

There I was minding my own business when a Bush Turkey came wandering past. I was in my run in the annex of the van so I could not get out to see what he was doing, all I could do was watch. The van is in Midge Point Caravan Park in the Whitsunday region.

There is lots of wild life here. On the beach I chased hundreds of tiny crabs, then later on I went for my evening loo walk and there were several Cane Toads jumping around, but Keith would not let me near them. Tomorrow I will be exploring Midge Point again.

Dog Wash.

Here I am in a Public Dog Wash! No privacy, all the world looking on and me wet through in the trough. I have never been so embarrassed in my life. What made it worse was that it had been vandalised and the owner was repairing it. He had to stick his finger in the mechanism to make it work.

After the bath I did feel better, and I had lost my doggie smell, but it wont take long to get it back.

We have been touring again, round Rockhampton. Keith tried to get me in to the Rockhampton dog club for a training session, but we had missed their training night and they did not want visitors anyway. Maybe I can get in next week at Mackay.

Beach Girl

Today was spent as a tourist. We went to Bundaberg then on to the Beaches. Lunch was at Kelly Beach, where I went for a walk amongst the volcanic rocks. KnK set up the photo of me standing on one of the rocks.

The next beach was at Elliot Head where we walked for miles.

We were going to go further on to another beach, but I had had enough and curled up in my travel crate and went to sleep.

I was looking for sea glass on the beach, (Auntie Wendy collects it) but I could not find any. It just goes to show, dog owners do not take bottles to the beach as there is never any glass on a dog beach!

On the move again

We are moving again. Today we left Esk and went to Lake Monduran via Ban Ban Springs. There I am in the pic outside the store.

I liked Esk, there were lots of people to pat me and the people at the Caravan Park were really nice to me. There was a puppy I got to know on the walk down to the creek, and I was beginning to know my way about, then we upped sticks and left!

The new place has a big area for me to run, only a few metres from our site, so I can get lots of exercise, but we will not be here for long so there is no point in making friends with anybody.

There was a dead cane toad near the road but I was not allowed to investigate it. Even dead ones are dangerous, so I was dragged away. It seems there are a lot of nasties in Queensland, what with ticks, toads and taipans a dog is not safe at all. Maybe that's why KnK keep yelling at me every time I go off to sniff something.

New Video Added

I have put up a video of Freddy and me playing at the dog club grounds just before we left for Esk.
We kept this up for ages, but the video is just 25 seconds.
The music is The Sabre Dance played on chainsaws by the Texas Chainsaw Orchestra.
Click on the "Tiffy and Freddy" link under Video Links on the left of the screen.