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Rainbow Beach 2024

Good Old Chinwagging Posted on 13 October 2024 by Chinwagger13 October 2024

The fishing trip went fine, lots of fish caught. It was a club tournament, our club size rules for legal fish are more difficult than Queensland Fisheries legal. We had three day’s fishing, a practice day, to find your feet, look for excellent fishing spots and enjoy yourself. The tournament is over two days, in this case we practiced on … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature, Fishing, Front Page | Tagged Carlo Point, Feature, Fishing, Rainbow Beach

A Visit from Grant

Good Old Chinwagging avatarPosted on 15 June 2023 by The Gazza15 June 2023

Me mate Grant rang and hesitantly asked if he could stay at our place for the night. Now Grant isn’t real good on the using modern equipment like telephones so receiving a phone call from him is a real treat. Grant, a retired mechanic from Wellington, had his own business and retired to a country town four hours south of … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature, Front Page, Road Trips | Tagged Feature

Buying a House Boat

Good Old Chinwagging Posted on 7 April 2023 by Chinwagger1 July 2023

The phone call came late in the evening. I usually leave calls after eight at night. The phone played that stupid noise I had assigned the ring tone. Who the hell is this bloody phone bloody scam? I thought I’ll just turn the bloody thing off. I can’t find the phone, must be under my side table. I twisted to … Continue reading →

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Carpet Laying by Gazza

Good Old Chinwagging avatarPosted on 13 August 2022 by The Gazza15 June 2023

Through my life my close friend and ally in the sometimes serious and sometimes mischief passage of our joint existence has featured in a number of incidents that somehow become known as the Gazza Curse, I will leave the reader to determine whether this is one of them. Anyway, its Gazzas story so I will let him tell it in his own words. – The Chinwagger.

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The Forklift

Good Old Chinwagging Posted on 23 June 2022 by Chinwagger16 August 2022

My son and I own a small flooring store, part of a bigger franchising network. He runs the store and I get to do all the jobs that are not selling flooring. There appear to be a lot of these jobs. Including removing the waste, disposing of equipment and fixing broken things, this tale is about fixing broken things. We … Continue reading →

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Houseboat on Caboolture River

Buying a House Boat

The phone call came late in the evening. I usually leave calls after eight at night. The phone played that stupid noise I had assigned the ring tone. Who the hell is this bloody phone bloody scam? I thought I'll ...
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A pair of Ugg Boots

Carpet Laying by Gazza

Through my life my close friend and ally in the sometimes serious and sometimes mischief passage of our joint existence has featured in a number of incidents that somehow become known as the Gazza Curse, I will leave the reader ...
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The Forklift

My son and I own a small flooring store, part of a bigger franchising network. He runs the store and I get to do all the jobs that are not selling flooring. There appear to be a lot of these ...
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First Red Claw Catches

First trip for our camper, we  travelled very west of here, to a place called Lake Boondooma . This is a man-made lake which has a huge area for camping. The camping is "bush camping", off grid no power, no ...
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Sun Moon Lake Here We Come

Sun Moon Lake Here We Come

After my assignment in Taipei Al and I decided to brave the wilds of inner Taiwan and find somewhere to spend a few days doing very little other than a some walking and perhaps some bike riding. Our destination is ...
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Coast Guard Rescue

Coast Guard Rescue

Sometimes things just don't go as right as they could and sometimes when that happens particular people are always present. You feel that perhaps, just perhaps they have a little bit influence, it could be some sort of bad air ...
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Caught by a Lure

Caught by a Lure

“Bugger it’s got me” The sound of a fisher that’s just been hooked by their own lure. Fishing in the Upper Noosa we only use lures. Mostly traditional lures, although we have tried various squidgy soft baits and this time ...
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Is Easter fishing cancelled again

Its Thursday 21st April 2011 and its been raining for three days, our back garden has had 24cm, 23cm and 19cm, Harley tells me there has been more further north at Cooroy. Great as Cooroy is close to where we ...
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Toilet paper and snorkelling

The morning constitutional, is always a ritual taken with some trepidation when camping. The facilities can vary from nothing at all, that's the dig your hole and bury your own business,  to full clean flush toilets with hot and cold water ...
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  • 1997 Lord Howe Island
  • 1998 Travelling West from Canberra
  • A drink in Wentworth
  • Toilet paper and snorkelling
  • First Fish on the Caboolture River
  • The Traditional Game
  • Signs of a storm everywhere
  • Off to Charleville
  • 2003 March Breaking Bones
  • Motor Won’t Start.
  • Sixteen Hundred Kilometres from Home to Kuranda
  • Duaringa Hotel
  • First time to Stanthorpe
  • 2007 To the Rock and Back
  • Chinchilla to Charleville via Muckadilla
  • Birdsville
  • Plane on the road, Mungerannie hotel, finished with a spar
  • A night at Walkabout Creek
  • Outback Pub Crawl
  • The last leg home
  • Phuket for my Birthday
  • Is Easter fishing cancelled again
  • Perfectly Still
  • Stalking Goannas
  • Caught by a Lure
  • ANZAC Day
  • Focus on the Kin Kin Pub
  • 2011 Rarotonga
  • Big Game Fishing
  • Off Fishing for the Weekend
  • Fishing Sandbanks
  • Breakfast for Bush Rats
  • Christmas in Lae
  • Bigger Pot Holes than you
  • Tawali Resort
  • Arriving in POM
  • Gazza Curse Again
  • Coast Guard Rescue
  • Sun Moon Lake Here We Come
  • First Red Claw Catches
  • Christmas Island for Christmas
  • Camera Work a Reflection of Forty Years of Making Memories
  • You Know You are in the NT
  • The Gazza Curse Strikes Again.
  • The Gazza Curse, Croc what Croc
  • Just Fishing – What Could Possibly Go Wrong
  • Unfortunate Incident at Lake Barambah
  • Bulldozers, Golf and Fishing
  • Exploding Wheel Barrows
  • Scrivener On the Go
  • European Football Cup Final
  • The Forklift
  • Carpet Laying by Gazza
  • Buying a House Boat
  • A Visit from Grant
  • Rainbow Beach 2024

More Journals

  • 1997 Lord Howe Island (14)
  • 1998 West from Canberra (12)
  • 2002 Korea (1)
  • 2002 West to Waltzing Matilda (8)
  • 2003 March Breaking Bones (1)
  • 2004 Cairns and Surrounds (10)
  • 2005 Stanthorpe (3)
  • 2007 Red Centre & Back (22)
  • 2009 Easter at Boondooma Dam (1)
  • 2010 Jan Marlborough Sounds (1)
  • 2010 Phuket (9)
  • 2011 Bribie Passage Camping (3)
  • 2011 Christmas in PNG (7)
  • 2011 Easter Fishing (7)
  • 2011 Rarotonga (14)
  • 2012 Expensive Flat Tire (2)
  • 2012 Talawi PNG (6)
  • 2015 Oct Taiwan (4)
  • 2016 Christmas Island (1)
  • 2016 Feb NZ (1)
  • 2019 Travelling to Katherine (1)
  • 2021 Touring Australia (1)
  • Being Family (3)
  • Gazza Files (8)
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