See you in 3,000 kilometers time :-) 07/24/2010
 Reg, Indigo and I are about to drive the 3,000 Kilometers from north Queensland to north Victoria. See you in 3,000 kilometers time :-) After blogging non stop, for 15 months, aside from our Nullabour crossings, we plan to take a beak from all communications, live on solar power and read novels for evening entertainment, so we will off line for one week. Watch this spot there will be heaps of new travel material to share once we arrive in Victoria. We will be driving trough some beautiful areas and I will take lots of photos. See you in about a weeks time, early August at the latest.  Yogurt Making in a Caravan. 07/21/2010
  I am keen to buy an EASIYO Yogurt maker. All I will need is the Yogurt maker, 1 litre of long life milk and a sachet of the yogurt making mix and I will be able to make 1 litre (1 Kg) of live culture yogurt at a time, easily in the caravan. My friend Nikki showed me hers and I tasted the yogurt she made, it was beautiful. She makes a low fat version the same as I would, very healthy. I used to make yogurt years ago. I would save 100mls of live culture yogurt, mix it with milk then add it to an electric yogurt maker, the results were very inconsistent and not a good flavour, I gave up making it. This system looked to be easy. Some more, Healthy Living Links:-      The Kuranda Original Rainforest Markets began in 1978 by a group of local people trying to attract visitors to Kuranda. At that time, the village became known for the very small community market for "Hippie Artists" and craft people. Train and road accessed the markets. Now the markets have been an amazing tourist success and Asian imports and commercial stock has moved in and there was a lot less local crafts than imports. I loved the lack of sophisticating as shown by the storekeeper changing her baby on the rug in the middle of her store, I felt this was charming, not something you see in a sophisticated city store and I think we lose a lot of humanity when we lose our appreciation of a natural way of living. I loved seeing the woman spinning wool at the market, another local crafts touch. The town of Kuranda is recognized, as a unique Australian rainforest destination.                Flying Fish Point Flying Fish Point is aptly named, we often see the flying fish, also dolphins at this peaceful Far North Queensland's rich estuary fishing location. Less inhabited and unsophisticated, this is the place for the fisherman and the writer to find a peaceful retreat away from the sophisticated resort beaches. Flying Fish Point is located at the mouth of the Johnstone River, Innisfail. Innisfail is a great town for most essential shopping, prices are reasonable, cheap and good quality fruit and vegetables and free (aside from the cost of the bait and lost tackle), fish, help offset the cost of the caravan park rent. Fishing off the beach is popular, Reg has caught, 23 whiting in the past 24 hours, fishing 45 minutes either side of the high tide, using shrimp bait, here of the beach at Flying Fish Point. The Flying Fish Point Caravan Park a caravan park is just metres from the beach. Queensland Beaches Burleigh Heads Coolangatta Surfers Paradise – Main Beach Broad Beach Maroochydore Noosa Heads Noosa Main Beach Fraser Island Airlie Beach & Whitsundays Hinchinbrook Island Mission Beach Kurrimine Beach Flying Fish Point Fitzroy Island – Nudey Beach Turtle Bay Cairns Beaches Cairns Esplanade Machans Beach Holloways Beach Yorkeys Knob Trinity Beach Kewarra Beach Clifton Beach Palm Cove Ellis Beach Four Mile Beach (Port Douglas) Daintree Rainforest Beaches Beach Information What makes them special? Beach Safety Marine Stingers Other Dangers Queensland Beach Attire Queensland Sun Nude Beaches in Queensland Caring for Queensland Beaches Queensland Climate About Queensland Beaches Contact Queensland Beaches Other Travel Guides Palm Cove Port Douglas Cairns Tours & Sightseeing Millaa Millaa Lookout (McHugh Road Lookout) 07/15/2010
      · Location: On McHugh Road between Millaa Millaa and the Kennedy Highway. · Elevation: 1070 M. · It is the most spectacular lookout on the Tablelands. · The 1800 lookout allow you to see as far as Atherton and the coast near Innisfail. · From North-West to South-East you see: · Malanda Volcano and its gentle slope down towards Malanda to the right. Bones Knob Shield Volcano and Halloran Hill Volcano. You can also see the Seven Sisters and Mt. Quincan cinder cones. The lamb Range is also visible. · Following this in a clockwise direction you can see: The rolling hills of the Lake Eacham/Barrine region which continue into the even and gentle slopes of Lamins Hill shield volcano. Behind Lamins Hill are the Bellenden Ker Ranges.Next to them is the granite dome of Mt. Bartle Frere, which is the highest Mountain in Queensland at 1622M. · Below the lookout between two shield volcanoes. On the way to the lookout we turned off the Palmerson Highway and headed towards Ravenshoe - The highest town in Queensland. We visited Waterfalls on this route include Souita & Pepina, being 7 Km’s off the road they are secluded & relatively untouched, sutable for fit walkers, the paths were slippery, caution was required to visit Souita Falls. We drove past the “Windy Hill” Windfarm - Spectacular site for this wind-generated electricity. It was a delightful drive and we stopped at the roadside farmers stalls and bought fresh bananas for $1. a kilogram then returned to our base at Flying Fish point.   On Line Training, while on Tour. 07/13/2010
 The main area I am interested in studying is writing and the focus of my writing is travel and fitness so tomorrow Reg and I will be visiting waterfalls and bushwalking once more. J Did you know that if you are on a disability pension you could apply for an education allowance to study? I am eligible for the aged care pension in three weeks time, so I made a few enquiries while I was filling out the application forms. It seems I am not eligible for assisted education once on that pension but most other pensioners can receive substantial subsidies for adding some studies and with studies able to be done, on line these days, this can fit in well, with the gray nomad’s, touring lifestyle. I am progressing with the beginning of my first novel writing, I have chosen, my title, the elevator pitch, description for the book and written the first few pages. I am using my own name for the hero of the book, for the moment, I can change this at a later date, I thought this would help my write it as if my hero was doing the narative. The book decription Kathryn’s Secret. A Novel by Kathy Shell Is the child delusional or has Kathryn discovered a secret of how to be victorious in the face of evil? Genre: - Character, Coming of Age How does that sound, so far? Would you bother to look inside the cover, if this was on the front cover? I have been reading information in books I have with me in the caravan, my favourite being, “The Everything Guide to Novel Writing. I have been searching for on line courses where I can improve my writing skills. I am currently looking at the gmat prep pages, but this seems to relate to mathematics, not something I am interested in at the moment. The only maths aspect of what I am doing is my purchasing a financial year diary so I can keep a good record of my income and expenditure for my hobby writing business to show I am not making a profit over expenses, from it, in case I am ever, queried. If I am able to save some money from my bread and butter, blog writing, I will put it aside to help me with my education for more serious novel writing. J. I am a great believer in learning from the experts while retaining your own individual flair and creative originality.   Myrrha Stanford-Smith Anglesey writer, 82, lands three-book deal
 The cover of the first novel  Spot Prizes, of a Kathy Shell, Fridge Magnet, from my artwork, will be being given, for the BEST Photo, submitted to my Kathy Shell's fan's photos. Competition is open to all who "like", my page and submit a photo with permission for me to publish in my blog. I had a competition running on my Kathy Shell" page on facebook where I had been choosing one of my readers, who have “liked”, my page, photographs and I was painting an art work from it and then having prints made to send to them a copy. I will need to change this, as I am not painting at the moment. My appologies. Things change. While everything is going well, as regards my primary role, of being a carer, things have also gone differently to how I had expected. There are at least a dozen photos already submitted that I love and one a clear winner as the sort of place I would love to go to and paint. This would have been, the one I would have chosen to paint, if I had time to paint right now. It is becoming increasingly difficult to combine carer duties and painting at the moment. I live, in hope, it will get easier. J This photo of the view from Fred Piper Memorial Lookout, on Brown Mountain, NSW, Australia. Shows pastures of Bega shire, with trees, in foreground that looks out over the Bega Valley. This photograph was submitted to my ‘fan’s photo’, in my Khaty Shell page by . Meryll Jeff Palethorpe , thank you Meryll. This view is on theSnowy Mountains Highway in New South Wales, Australia. The highway runs across the highland region in the southern part of the State. It starts at its junction with the Hume Highway near Gundagai. From there, the highway runs generally south-east, through the town of Tumut, and up onto the southern highland plateau past Yarrangobilly Caves and the historic Kiandra Goldfields, then down through Adaminaby to Cooma. From Cooma the highway continues in a south easterly direction through Nimmitabel then descends down Brown Mountain to Bemboka then continues on to Bega and Tathra on the south coast of New South Wales. In winter, much of the highway is subject to heavy snowfalls and the highway is the access route to Selwyn Snowfields ski resort. Meryll Jeff Palethorpe , wins ths fridge magnet of Brachina Gorge, in the Flinders Ranges, reproduced from the original oil painting I completed about 30 years ago.   The Power Of One: [Audiobook, Unabridged] [Double box Audio CD] Pre listened to, once by myself, Kathy shell, cover is scratched, New value of this 18 compact disk set is over $150. value with FREE postage within Australia. You are welcome to enter the competition if outside of Australia but shipping cost must be paid before item will be sent. Bryce Courtenay, Author, Humphrey Bower, Narator. This great prize, Plus free postage within Australia, is our FREE Giveaway, for July. HOW TO WIN To be in the draw with one entry, just:- 1/ Leave a comment on this post saying why you would like to win this audio book. · Note, this Giveaway will be being offered from all ten blogs written by Kathy Shell, during the month of July 2010. There is only one prize to be given away and free postage is only for Australian delivery. All entries from each blog post, for this competition, from each of the ten blogs, will go into the one draw, and the winner will be announced at the end of July or start of August 2010. “The Power of One has everything: suspense, the exotic, violence; mysticism, psychology and magic; schoolboy adventures, drama.” –The New York Times “Unabashedly uplifting . . . asserts forcefully what all of us would like to believe: that the individual, armed with the spirit of independence–‘the power of one’–can prevail.” –Cleveland Plain Dealer In 1939, as Hitler casts his enormous, cruel shadow across the world, the seeds of apartheid take root in South Africa. There, a boy called Peekay is born. His childhood is marked by humiliation and abandonment, yet he vows to survive and conceives heroic dreams–which are nothing compared to what life actually has in store for him. He embarks on an epic journey through a land of tribal superstition and modern prejudice where he will learn the power of words, the power to transform lives, and the power of one. “Totally engrossing . . . [presents] the metamorphosis of a most remarkable young man and the almost spiritual influence he has on others . . . Peekay has both humor and a refreshingly earthy touch, and his adventures, at times, are hair-raising in their suspense.” –Los Angeles Times Book Review “Marvelous . . . It is the people of the sun-baked plains of Africa who tug at the heartstrings in this book. . . . [Bryce] Courtenay draws them all with a fierce and violent love.” –The Washington Post Book World “Impressive.” –Newsday “A compelling tale.” –The Christian Science Monitor · Publishers Weekly · ``Episodic and bursting with incident, this sprawling memoir of an English boy's lonely childhood in South Africa during WW II pays moderate attention to questions of race but concerns itself primarily with epic melodrama,'' noted PW. (Apr.)  Biography · Bryce Courtenay was born in South Africa, is an Australian, and has lived in Sydney for the major part of his life. Visit him on the web at www.brycecourtenay.com. Defencive Driving and Strong Seniors. 07/06/2010
 Lifting Weights as a senior, protects against falls and fractures. I have done an RACV, advanced driving course and learned a lot from it, I changed my driving style because of the course. Part of the course involved defensive driving. I apply some of what I learned, to life situations. Can you relate at all to this?. If you do a defensive, driving course, if you are approaching, a situation where you are at risk, maybe the car is heading at high speed for a tree. The usual thing for the untrained driver to do is to look at the object they do not want to hit - the tree - while attempting to not hit it - and they always hit the tree. In a defensive driving class, you are taught, to look for the gap, the best route out of the dangerous situation, fix your eyes firmly unwaveringly at the way out of danger, your goal. This way you are guaranteed, of getting yourself out of the immediate danger. Life is like that, I always do best when I look at my goals, action plan and work to my ‘to do list’ and surrounds myself with positive people. My biggest negative in weight loss is that I hit weight plateaus and stall there for months. My solution has been working on muscle strength. As a senior, this is protecting my bones, very important. As a slimmer, this will help me burn more of the calories I eat, As a 158cm short person and a senior, this is going to be my best way to maintain a slim figure, once I attain it. J. I highly recommend weight training to seniors. There are so many benefits. Just get your doctors OK before starting and good advice about how to begin.  Lifting hand weights protects seniors wrists from breaking in a fall, so you can enjoy the lifestyle that is important to you, like beach fishing. | Kathy Shell on Facebook  Advertisers, This 160 x 160 advertising space, could be yours. See our advertising page above then contact Kathy to arrange your advertising package. Kathy Shell,
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