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Reply #10 - Jul 26^th, 2026 at 10:09am

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Migaloo the white humpback whale. As close as I ever got to him.

Photo taken from Point Danger on Gold Coast with my Sony camera and 83x optical zoom lens - 2016

I was sitting listening to the radio and they announced that Migaloo had been sighted south of the Gold Coast and was heading north so said to Maggie, let’s go and we bolted for the coast.

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Reply #11 - Jul 27^th, 2026 at 9:38am

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Archer Point lighthouse south of Cooktown, North Qld - 2025

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Reply #12 - Jul 27^th, 2026 at 11:33pm

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Is that a newish thing at Archer Point Derek?
Im sure Ive been there more than once but didnt see it.
But then I didnt go to the end of the track either ...only as far as the old rotting wharf for a fish.
Maybe I should have gone further up the track.

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Reply #13 - Jul 29^th, 2026 at 11:19am

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Rory, there was always a lighthouse there on the high point just north of the old jetty.

The original was an old wooden structure that was demolished in mid seventies I believe. Photo below of it from 1917. Was a timber covered in corrugated iron apparently.

I certainly do not remember anything of it when I was there in the 60’s but do remember we drove up to it.

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Reply #14 - Jul 29^th, 2026 at 11:20am

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Our tenth Anniversary COG at Alstonville - 2016

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Reply #15 - Jul 29^th, 2026 at 11:51am

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Alstonville COG - 2017. Thanks Kevvy.

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Reply #16 - Jul 30^th, 2026 at 9:19am

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Maggie and my first night out in our then new caravan in 2012. This was Beardy Creek Rest Area just north of Glenn Innes.

Temperature got down to minus 6.5 degrees that morning and the ground was frozen. Couple of weeks later I installed a diesel heater.

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Reply #17 - Jul 31^st, 2026 at 6:02pm

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Camped on Norman Rivet, Normanton- 2025

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Reply #18 - Aug 1^st, 2026 at 8:59am

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Hi Derek
Thanks for the photo of the stirrer. what memories Boy I enjoyed making them for the COG
Those stirrers would now be collector items Grin

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Reply #19 - Aug 1^st, 2026 at 2:57pm

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Campbells Winery Tour in the Rutherglen District, Victoria - 2007

Some of the nicest Muscats and Ports from down there.

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