Dayboro, History, Abbey Museum and daily business
Today we made a trip to Dayboro and to the Abbey Museum in Caboolture.
Dayboro is a small village around 45 km north-west of Brisbane. It’s a nice small village known for the Dayboro Rodeo and other events as Dayboro Day Festival, Dayboro Show and Dayboro Markets.
View on Bushland and a few Farms
View on Glass House Mountains
The trip to Dayboro goes through bush land and so now and then some farms show up. Especially from the higher areas you can have nice views on the Glasshouse Mountains National Park with several mountains, old vulcanos arising out of a flat landscape. We’ve been there before and this Park gives excellent opportunities for walking over the many tracks available.
Sign Crash Zone
Next to the road we saw a sign that wasn’t very encouraging: “TAKE CARE Crash Zone next 2 km”, but driving fast shortens the time period of high risk 🙂
Dayboro camp oven of first settlers
This says it all
When approaching Dayboro we saw a sign for a historical location and being a tourist, we went to have a look. To follow the signs we had to take some small roads and finally we found some old black burned stones with a sign “This is the site of the camp oven used by the Anderson family – first settlers in the area before 1907.)
This again showed the reality. This country has a long history with the Aboriginals but the (European and other) settlers have only a history of a few hundreds of years and that’s already leading to some confusion.
Suddenly a Lollypop Man showed up
Leaving the Camp Oven with the Historical Park, we took a very quiet sandy road. At those times we are happy that we have a 4WD car. Then suddenly out of nothing a “Lolly Pop Man” (that’s how a traffic controller with a slow/stop sign is called sometimes) showed up. We didn’t expect them here in the middle of the bush without nearly any traffic, but it seems that they are everywhere. They asked us if we had seen the big snake, as long as the road width, crossing the road, but we didn’t. Then we could continue our journey.
Abbey Museum Caboolture
From Dayboro we went to Caboolture to visit the Abbey Museum. This museum is really unique for Australia with a lot of historical items from Europa, and Egypt. We really can recommend this place if you pass by.
Abbey Museum Caboolture
Fascinating how such a high standard museum can be located in such a small village. It was a great opportunity to walk through the periods of European history with Nicole and Jorick. We also had a look at a church nearby with many old “glass in lead” windows and other religious ceremonial items.
This is also the location for the yearly Abbey Medieval Festival. Unfortunately next time is not earlier then July 2009.
Italian restaurant Caboolture
In Caboolture we had a conversation with an older man about the characteristics of Caboolture and living there. he was born there and we signed up his words: “you have to hang your hat somewhere”.
We closed the day with a diner at an Italian restaurant (Jorick’s favorite).
Some things from daily life:
Watching the frogs
Mound of Brush Turkey getting larger
Daily life just goes on but with many new experiences that are typical for Australia/Brisbane. Everyday we watch the Brush Turkey mainting his mould. Incredible how busy he can be the whole day. We are now removing many brushes, plants and paths with small stones from our top level garden. So often the Turkey and we are working together side by side. And when it comes down to the essence live the differences between him and us are small.
One of many
Iguana
Jorick and Nicole love the Frogpont(s) and like to watch (and catch) the little tiny frogs. Also many other animals and insects show up. Recently Nicole found an Iguana as shown in the picture at the right (puzzle). Many different reptiles become active now the temperature is rising. Jorick enjoyed a visit to one of his friends from his 1st pre-school here. And again together we have visited the “Dutch Playground Group” which was fun. Periodically one of the many Parks in Brisbane is selected where tens of Dutch families with children meet. The children have a play together in the playgrounds that are nearly everywhere and the parents can have a chat in Dutch which sometimes is a relief.
Having a barbie in the evening
Nicole and Jan a la Renoir
And of course at least once a week we’re having a barbie (BBQ). Everytime that’s a nice experiences with the many sounds from the Rainforest.
That’s it for now.
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Cheers,
Jan, Anita, Nicole and Jorick