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Wednesday 11th September - Bowen

Gusty and windy again today with a low of 11.4 and a top of only 25.2. Is that a cloud in the sky I see ?

Clive decided that he was going into town for a walk this morning while I slept. He drove into town early and parked in the centre od town. He then started taking photos of all the murals. Up one side of the street and then back down the other. It was the best time of day as there was very little traffic about and he got some good pictures.

From here he then went and parked near the Jetty and decided to walk along there. The jetty is just over 800m long and was originally built in 1867. It has been re-built and extended as the need for the ability to take larger ships grew and was last done in the 1950's. It was damaged and closed when cyclone Debbie hit the coast and was re-opened in 2017 in time for it's 150th birthday. This isn't a straight jetty as there is a curve to the left that now is home to tugs that service parts of the coast.

You can see from the pictures the difference in the structure from wood with the old railway line to concrete at the very end. Like the jetty in Hervey Bay this was longer than it is today. There were a few people fishing there but no one was having much luck.

In the afternoon he re-worked the trip so that we can go south via the Gold Coast and drop some stuff off out of the van that we have not used in the past four months. So now instead of going down through NSW when we get to Roma we'll head towards Toowoomba and head down to Sydney via the coast. That's the third major re-work of the trip so far. It's now basically planned until February 2020.

Time for some more reading and left over pizza for dinner.




Bear drinking
again.

#25 History
of Policing.

#17 Bank Of
New South Wales.


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Grand View Hotel
EST. 1864.

The modern
sign.

#18 Bowen
Municipal Band.

Plaque on the
Central Hotel.

Central
Hotel.


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J.E.Kelly
Est. 1904.

#20 Pioneer
Women.

Burns, Philp
and Co. Ltd.

#19 Aviation
History.

#13 History Of
Bowen.

#13 History Of
Bowen.

#1 Transporting a boiler
to the Goldfields.

#1 Transporting a boiler
to the Goldfields.

Burns, Philp
and Co. Ltd.

Bowen
jetty.

#11 Betzel
Pioneer Families.

#7 Early
Farming Days.

#7 Early
Farming Days.

#7 Early
Farming Days.

#7 Early
Farming Days.

#7 Early
Farming Days.

#7 Early
Farming Days.

#7 Early
Farming Days.

#6 First
Ambulance.

#6 First
Fire Truck.

#5 First Motor
Vehicles.

#4 Salt
Harvest.

#3 Goat
Cart.

#21 James
Morrill.

Mural on
a pool shop.

#28 50 Years of
Queensland Rail.

#22 Coal loading
from jetty.

#26 Murroona
Homestead.

Art in
a school.

#24 Merinda
School.

Art in
a school.

#27 scene of Front
Beach Post WW11.

Allen Bauer
1938-2003.

Water tanks
close up.


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Mullers
Lagoon.

Looking to
Flagstaff Hill.

Salt
beds.


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Around the
back of the tank.


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The smaller
water tank.


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Bowen Jetty
Completed 1866.

Trawler at
work.

Walking the
jetty.

Jetty branch
fot tug boats.


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Another
trawler.

View at the
end of jetty.

Zoomed in
on van park.

Old timbers
and rail line.


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Cape Edgecumbe
Walking Trail.

Up the steps
and over rocks.


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WW11 Historic
Site.

Rose
Bay.

Rose Bay
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