Sleepin' Around: Toowoomba, Caboolture and Gympie

10 March 2023

Toowoomba, Caboolture and Gympie - 28/02/2023 to 08/03/2023

We arrived in Toowoomba a day ahead of Terry and Kim to visit our Aunty Bet, Therese and Wayne and family. Hannah if you're reading this, sorry we missed you.

Aunty Bet is Terry's and my aunty on our mother's side. Nearing 90, she's looking well and always a fountain of knowledge on family history - we call her 'the Oracle'.

Parked up in the front yard

AKA. The Oracle

Aunty Bet and the traveling Wilburys

We spent 3 days of nostalgic conversations, catching up and trimming my family tree data. Also fixed her stove and microwave.

It's always great to catch up with the Casey/Little clan in Toowoomba and talk about old times from our childhood in Clermont. I really appreciate life's hardships our preceding generations endured in the early to mid 1900's.

We'll see the Toowoomba family again later in the year en-route to Tassie.

Then we headed off down the range and cut off at Gatton on to meet up with Peter and Sue in the semi-rural surrounds of Caboolture. Peter has just been through some major surgery on his spine and on track to recovery.

Grevillia in Sue's garden

A small reunion of the Hiette boys - Terry, David, Peter and Me

S J

Sue and Judy - The caption of this photo is how their mother use to mark all their baby photos so she could remember who is who.

Scott and Bree and the kids

David and Thomas

On Sunday morning we were joined by David, Kelly, Thomas, Scott and Bree and family for smoko - So we grabbed some obligatory family photos.

Onwards and geographically upwards, the convoy trucked on to the Malcomson Farm just ouside urban Gympie. Troy and Fiona hosted us for one night and Terry and Kim headed off homewards after a cuppa break. Next morning, I grabbed a few shots around the farm at dawn as 'Rusty' (the rooster) provided backing vocals.