‘Mount Rushmore’ is almost complete – 24th November 2018
With the road works coming to an end we are seeing the ‘finished product’ in some areas.
Road Work Update – May 2018
The road works continue… (I am going to be saying that a lot!)
We have maintained an active role in the road works, and have attempted to gain as much info as possible and exercise our knowledge of the road when we are talking to the various workers. Some times that pays off. Sometimes not.
Road Work start at Site 55 – 5th April 2018
Two nights ago the road works started at Site 55. This is one of the sites close to our house and adjoining our property.
Fixing the Road – Our Turn – 18th March 2018
The damage to Lamington National Park Rd caused by ex-Tropical Cyclone Debbie is still being repaired. It has been 12 months since 400mm+ rain fell here in ‘Upper’ Cainbable.
It is now our turn to get ‘repaired’
Taking Up Road Plantings – 2nd March 2018
Work is still ongoing along large parts of Lamington National Park Rd, and the DTMR and their contractors are about to start repairs on a number of sites close to our property.
Unfortunately this means we will have to pull-up some of our road plantings that are in the repair areas.
A Bit of Road work – 2nd November 2017
After Cyclone Debbie(March/Apr 2017) we had various areas of the road side that had been damaged. We undertook to plant many of these areas in order to strengthen them and prevent further washouts.
This was another gully needed some planting to help hold the ground in place.
Serious Road Works get started – 1st October 2017
Serious road works on Lamington National Park Rd(LNPR) are about to start. The road crews have started moving in and the speed limit on LNPR has been decreased – severely!
The Fire Deck – Gets fired up – 8th April 2017
We completed our Fire Deck a few months ago, but still had some final touches to do to finish things off. We are almost there… but after the week we have just had we thought it was time to fire up the fire pit and see how everything works.
So we did 🙂
The Morning After – Part I – 31st march 2017
It was now the morning after Cyclone Debbie came to visit. So we woke this morning not knowing what we were going to find both on our property and on the road. We ventured out about 6am and found catastrophic damage to the property at the end of the South Path. The...
Ex Tropical Cyclone Debbie arrives with a Bang! – Part II – 30th March 2017
Heavy rain continued to fall through Thursday morning and we could hear and see water pouring down the mountain in lots of places.
We knew there would be more ‘damage’ to the road, and possibly to areas of our property too… so ventured out again when the rain eased.
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