Atherton Table Lands

We have had a very relaxing couple of weeks at the Atherton Tablelands. Most of the time at Lakeside Caravan park at Yungaburra, with a few days at Mareeba and 2 nights at the Tableland Dog Obedience Club for trials.
Mareeba is the coffee growing centre so we had visits to the coffee rooms and also the Golden Drop Mango Winery.
There are lots of waterfalls here, the photo shows three of them on the Waterfall Tourist Drive from Malanda.
Yungaburra is a small town with lots of things to see. The Afghan Avenue of Honour, next to the caravan park, honours the servicemen that have lost their lives in Afghanistan and includes a memorial to the 5 Explosive Detection dogs that were killed in action.
We celebrated Kathy's Birthday a little early at the Vienna Inn Restaurant where they have a pet friendly terrace so the Tollers could join in the celebrations.
We had some good results in the dog trials too, have a look at the Dog Blog from the link on the left of the page.
Heading down to Townsville for their trials next week then we start the long drive home, via Alice Springs.

Cairns

Cairns dog club is holding 3 days of trials and we are camping in the Cairns showgrounds just behind the dog area, only a few meters to walk home.
The pic shows me recovering from an accident I had last night. I was taking Tiffany for a walk, went behind a shed that was not very well lit and hit my head on a steel tube used to support a cattle gate. I fell to the ground, twisting my ankle in the process and lay there trying to work out what had happened. The Cairns dog club people were quick to my aid, some of them were nurses and paramedics. After checking me out they got me back to a chair where they put ice packs on my head and ankle. One of the ladies lent me her 'Dog Hat' which held the ice on my head.
Kathy ran the dogs in Rally and did well with 2 firsts for Hannah and a second with Tiffany, all qualifying.
Recovered well this morning, just a bit of a headache and a swollen ankle. Not sure if I can run Tiffany in Agility this afternoon, probably get Kathy to do it.

100000 Km

The Navara has clocked up 100000 kilometres today. It happened 123 kilometres south of Charters Towers, while we were traveling from Clermont to Townsville. The pic records the moment, the inset shows the odometer at 100,000km, although it is a bit blurred because it was not a good place to stop.
To get to 100,000 we have been to the tip of Cape York, through Victoria, New South Wales and ACT, Queensland, Northern Territory and Western Australia. Not been to Tassie yet. Most of the kilometres were done with the caravan on tow.
We have been a little short on the blogs on this trip. Our internet access has been "shaped" because we went over our limit. Windows was set to auto update, so it burned up 500 meg in updates before I realised what was going on. Should be back to normal when the next billing period starts on Saturday.
Hannah did well at Rockhampton Trials, with passes in JDX, SDX and the Intolerables were 0.84 seconds over time in the SPX. Tiffany had a couple of clear rounds but was over time. The Obedience was a disaster with both of them having big problems with the heelwork. Not sure why, but they were very unsettled and continually looking outside the ring. Hopefully they will improve for Cairns.