-- From Brisbane to

Monday June 29 started in brass band as of 8am to take three successive buses to go to DHL in the surroundings of the airport of Brisbane. I wanted to obtain the addresses of DHL agencies in Japan and in Korea due to the websites are in local languages. The person met printed the ad hoc listing. The outward and return journey to the CBD had taken more than three hours. I canvassed hotels for my return from New Zealand to Brisbane. Then I sauntered on Queen St Mall looking at the street scenes, smooth talkers and travelling acrobats attracting a good child and accomplice public. The day was fresh and sunny with long cloudy passages.

The following day by a cold gloomy day I prepared the trips of the next countries by installing pages on my website. Indeed I always had the project, after the visit of New Zealand without my truck, to head to Japan and to Korea knowing that their Internet sites are in vernacular languages, not easy to prepare. After I have a dream…

On June 30 I left Brisbane to go northwards. On the way I stopped in a carriage-builder of special vehicles, Bodyline, to ask for a quotation of repairs to make on the cell and to take an appointment for the end of September to complete work during my journey in New Zealand. I made a detour to see a geological curiosity the Glass House Mountains. I fled the seaside occupied by places of pleasures typically Australian. In the evening at the bivouac I noted that the inverter of tension from 24 to 230 volts did not function any more. I thus used the generator to work with my computer. Consequently I decided to return to PPS to diagnose the defect.

I had 63km to make to go to Redcliffe where I arrived as of 8am to make the situation examined. Very quickly the cause was discovered a switch had been inopportunely moved during the consecutive work to repair the Panda generator. I took again the road northwards to make a quick pause in Maryborough, city where in 1899 the author, Pl Travers, was born of Mary Popins celebrate magical nanny created in 1924 and who was incarnated by Julie Andrews in a film which gained a Oscar. Right before the falling night I found a bivouac extremely opportunely.

The next day was still a long driving day in Capricorn Hinterland having for target to visit the back country and parks consisting of emergence of sandstone, volcanoes and lava going back to million years. The day was not particularly beautiful with intermittent rains without the least sunbeam. The unspecified road twisted between mountains at an average altitude ranging between 200 and 400 meters. I bivouacked in the south of Biloela.

Still a driving day always in the Capricorn Hinterland but the sun was there as from the mid- morning. The landscape is resolutely flat with a light undulation and sometimes a hill disfigured by a mine. As bivouac I have to satisfy with a truck parking, there was no rest area.

Carnarvon National Park

Carnarvon National Park was declared as park in 1932. It is the most popular destination in the Central Queensland. The white sandstone cliffs towering on the sides of the gorge form an exceptional spectacle. It exhibits paintings of Aboriginal parietal art on two sites, Art Gallery and Cathedral Cave. Fauna and flora are particularly exuberant.

I walked the trekking trail at the bottom of gorge from one side to another by crossing the river on arranged rocks. There was no difficulty on the 22.8km of this on line race. The highlight was the discovery of Aboriginal paintings as expression of their social life for thousands of years. The day was very sunny with a temperature announced by Visitor Centre of 15°C. Many were families to furrow the track. Moreover the campground of the park was complete on my arrival in the late morning, I have to bivouac again on a carpark.

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