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New website for cake lovers

Damian — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:47:29 +0000

Christee-Lee Brakel has a new website, Christee-Lee cakes located at http://christee-lee.brakel.com.au
check it out! lots of yummy cakes, cup cakes, birthday cakes, kids cakes, sugar paste fondant, flower paste, chocolate, mud cakes, fancy cakes and more..

Mount Isa to Winton

Damian — Sun, 11 May 2008 11:33:36 +0000

We are a little further along the road, after a stop in Mount Isa to fill up the diesel and water tanks we headed out to the next camp spot. We made the 1300km run from Kathrine to Mount Isa on a tank of fuel, which was great, these larger towns are almost 50c a litre cheaper than the remote places in between. Its quite a big saving when filling up a big rig.

The next day we stopped in at Cloncurry to stock up on groceries, then drove on to McKinlay and stopped at the famous pub “Walkabout Creek Hotel” from the movie Crocodile Dundee. We then moved on to another road side rest area for the night.

This morning we drove into Winton, gave our mums a call to wish them a Happy Mothers Day, we pulled into the North Gregory Hotel caravan park, its a free camp area for vans and motor homes in an area behind the pub. We went for a walk and checked out the town, Winton is known as the Waltzing Matilda town but is also on the Dinosaur trail. Winton is very tourist orientated and offers a lot of info on Dinosaur fossils found in the area. We were going to stay at the Pub camping area for the night, but by lunch time the area was packed, there wasn’t much room for the kids to get out and play and it was quite dusty, so we decided to head out the road to a rest area.

We have decided to take the road to Rockhampton, via Longreach. From there we will most likely head down the coast road for a while.

We don’t have any new photos this time, we’ve been a bit slack.

Bridgetown Part 7

Damian — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 01:42:57 +0000

Yep, we are still here in Bridgetown! We haven’t posted for a while so I thought we’d better put up some new photos for you all to look at.

The boys have been learning to drive, Jayson has been driving the loader and Jake has been learning to drive the ride on mower.

Brad and Sue introduced us to family friends of theirs who spend a fair bit of time here at the caravan park, Harry and Colleen. Here is a nice photo I took of them having coffee near Harry’s site.

Last week, 14th March was Christee-Lee’s Birthday, the day started with the boys giving Christee-Lee some pressies Jayson had organised with Sue. Later Sue showed up with a lovely bunch of flowers.

Later we had a celebration dinner in the camp kitchen with Brad & Sue, Harry & Colleen and the Talbots. Sue cooked dinner for us all. We started with a beautiful prawn cocktail, followed by a baked dinner of roast lamb and 3 mud cakes for dessert, plus plenty of beers and wine and sparklers for the kids. Brad and Sue’s generosity topped off a great Birthday.

More photos of the Birthday can be seen in the album Photos / Australia – Our Lap / Bridgetown / Bridgetown Part 7 / Christee-Lee’s Birthday

More photos of Jake and Jayson driving can be seen in the album Photos / Australia – Our Lap / Bridgetown / Bridgetown Part 7

Bridgetown Caravan Park

Damian — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 04:18:20 +0000

Late last year, Brad and Sue Dowling purchased the Bridgetown Caravan Park, a few weeks before we arrived. The park was well run down and saw few visitors. Brad and Sue spent the first month restoring the residence so they had some where comfortable to live, and then started on giving the park a face lift. Brad and Sue are very likeable people, always pleasant and have a “nothing is too much hassle” attitude toward ensuring thier guests have a pleasant stay, along with thier hard work the park is improving in leaps and bounds, more people are booking in and thier efforts are being noticed. Often when we speak with locals in town, whenever we mention we are staying at the caravan park they comment on how the park has improved.

Over the past months they have not only been our hosts, we also consider them our friends. Last weekend we were invited for dinner, Sue cooked a roast lamb and vegies, it was the nicest meal we have had since leaving Mudgee. Jayson like Sue’s cooking so much he went back for his 3rd serve, even Jake had seconds.
Over the past week I have been giving Brad a bit of a hand around the park, mostly driving the loader and being the extra hand, he has dubbed me as the Park Loader Driver.
Over the past week I have also put together a wesite for Bridgetown Caravan Park, the website looks similar in layout to this one but is quite different behind the scenes. Its now up and running, but we still need to sort out the content a bit.

You can check it out at

http://bridgetowncaravanpark.com.au/