Lake Tinnaroo

Dear Family and Friends

After a very busy few days Saturday was the opposite and we made it a very slow relaxing day.

At church on Sunday there were a group of New Guinea ladies who are in Far North Queensland for about 4 weeks visiting churches in the local area. They led the service, shared testimonies and sang in their own unique style. It was a great service and we will remember it for a long time. Following the service we shared a lunch with them which turned out to be a lovely day all round. It's amazing how you run into people that connect up at a specific time in life. A friend of Ken's from his youth (many years ago) just happened to be the driver taking these ladies wherever they needed to go during their time in Australia. Anne grew up in Toongabbie (as did Ken) and had lived in New Guinea for many years, she met her husband and started her family there and now lives in Cairns. I have met her only once before so that means Ken hasn't seen her for over 40 years, so they had some catching up to to do.

Monday began with another restful start to the day but by midday we had packed up a few clothes and some food and set off for two nights at Lake Tinnaroo. If you remember three weeks ago on our first Sunday here we stopped on the way home from church and went to the "Taste of the Tablelands" as did others from our Walkamin Caravan Park. As you entered you were given a voucher to fill out and place in a very large box. We didn't give anymore thought to it but it turned out that people near us at the park at Walkamin won two nights at a unit at Lake Tinnaroo.

When they were contacted to say that they had won this prise they were about to leave to go down to Rocky and they could not delay their departure. So they trasferred the prize into our name and gave it to us and that is the reason we are here staying in this unit. Lake Tinnaroo is enormous and is the water supply for a large area in the local vicinity including the many farms and market gardens in the area. When you drive around you can see large channels filled with water from lake Tinnaroo and it is from these channels that farmers get their water.

The park here puts on a Pancake morning tea on Tuesday and Thursdays so that will be our first stop this morning before going for a look around the local area.

More to follow

That's all for now

Love Ken and Lyn