Mt Prosper

An old favourite, the National trail down MaMa creek is closed but we are able to walk on this property with permission. It was quite cool in the creek in shade and we wandered down past the cattle yards after smoko, then headed up hill in the direction of the house and cars which was quite hot in the sun. We had lunch at Hodgson vale Rotary Park.

Perseverance Dam to Koonin lookout

I have wanted to do this walk for a long time. We used to go down from near the dam with Bill but not a through walk. It had been badly overrun with lantana but is now cleaned out by floods and has some lovely waterholes. It was quite strenuous in parts and I was glad of the rest on rocks at the junction with Cressbrook for lunch before a steep but straightforward climb out to the lookout and return to the cars at the National Park car park where we chatted while the drivers, who had walked on ahead, retrieved cars from the start. We took Gary and Chris from Highfields, but they got a lift directly home so we were able to make it home by 5 pm for a nice soaking bath.

Brisbane and Mullum

Lee was up for a few days, interviewing for Treasury grads. It coincided with Jim's birthday so we went down on Wednesday afternoon and we all walked up to the Thai place at Annerley for a nice meal, after some happy hour at Jim's while waiting for him to run home from uni. He is in training for Brisbane half marathon in early August. We stayed overnight then had a look at some places with Em next morning when she returned Jim's car, before heading down to Mullum to have lunch with Mum. It was a nice day and she was looking well.

Perseverance Creek

We started at Clive road and headed out on the old track NE towards the creek which is nicely washed out. We wandered up it until we came to a fence across, where we had smoko before climbing up along the cliffs and back to the cars by 11.30. This turned out to be a short walk, reaching lunch at Hampton well in advance of Bill's group who delayed their arrival in anticipation of ours being later.

Mt Matheson

This is a really nice day out. It takes 2 hours from Toowoomba to the Spicers Gap campground then it is a lovely varied walk along below Mt Mitchell and above the Cunningham Hwy, then across to the old convict road over Spicers Gap. We stopped for lunch at Governors Chair with lovely views and all to ourselves, especially as Dick and Barry had to walk on to collect cars and most people's lunches. So we missed the walk down the road back to the cars this time.

Vale Margaret

We were sorry to receive a message from Richard Bell while at Mullum on 10 June, that Margaret had passed away at her unit that morning. We had only been back from France a week and had not had time to visit her, but it sounds like she went in a way that she would have preferred, living independently to the end.
On Saturday 23rd, we called in to see Maureen at the unit and help with the clear out. Andrew, Richard and Marguerite came up for a final visit and small gathering of friends at Bally Cara on Friday 29th and we removed the remaining small things after they left for the airport. Maureen and Harry completed the last larger things next day.