Kat and Jumpers Adventures

06/05/2024

Our weekend escape was pure magic, featuring stunning bird's-eye views of Hidden Gold Homestead and the lush greenery and rolling hills of the South Burnett region. We indulged in an unforgettable wine-tasting journey, savoring the most exquisite flavors at Cloverly Estate Cellers and Dusty Hill Vineyard. Highly recommend a day trip or a weekend escape out here

11/04/2024

A list of all our Camp Grounds that we have stayed at

Where we have stayed !!

29/03/2024

23/03/2024

Chowey Bridge.
The Deep Creek Railway Bridge is also known as Chowey Bridge and is located on the Mungar-Monto railway line in Didcot, North Burnett Region, Queensland, Australia. Built in 1905 using day labour, it has been heritage listed since October 21st 1992

23/03/2024

Boolboonda Tunnel.
Who needs street cred when you're an abandoned railway tunnel? Boolboonda still got it at 630ft long though, making it Queensland's longest unsupported artificial tunnel. O'Rourke & McSharry built this bad boy between 1881-1884 and it's now a heritage site since '99.

27/01/2024

Australia Day 2024. A quick little getaway about 75km from home. Great little spot, but unfortunately at 36° it was just a little uncomfortable, but it was great to be out and about again
Lake Redbrook at Childers highly recommend this property. great host and plenty to do or nice grassy lawns to chill out and relax on.

26/01/2024

Australia Day 2024

12/12/2023

All aboard Reef Empress and welcome to the VIP Lounge, Barista coffee and morning tea on arrival, nice big comfy lounge chairs. Very Impressed

10/12/2023

Stay safe my North Qld Friends

TROPICAL CYCLONE ADVICE NUMBER 1
Issued at 4:51 pm EST on Sunday 10 December 2023
Headline:
Tropical Cyclone Jasper moving westwards towards the far north Queensland coast. Crossing the coast as a severe tropical cyclone during Wednesday.

Areas Affected:
Warning Zone
None.

Watch Zone
Cape Melville to Townsville, including Cairns and Cooktown.

Cancelled Zone
None.

Details of Tropical Cyclone Jasper at 4:00 pm AEST [3:30 pm ACST]:
Intensity: Category 2, sustained winds near the centre of 100 kilometres per hour with wind gusts to 140 kilometres per hour.

Location: within 55 kilometres of 16.9 degrees South 153.7 degrees East, estimated to be 880 kilometres east of Port Douglas and 850 kilometres east of Cairns.

Movement: southwest at 14 kilometres per hour.

Tropical Cyclone Jasper, category 2, is moving in a general westwards direction. Jasper is forecast to maintain intensity during Monday and Tuesday. Jasper is forecast to intensify to a category 3 cyclone shortly before making landfall during Wednesday, most likely between Cooktown and Cardwell.

Hazards:
DAMAGING WINDS of 90 km/h are expected to develop along the Queensland coast between Cooktown and Ingham, including Cairns from Tuesday.

DAMAGING WINDS of 90 km/hr may extend as far south as Townsville or as far north as Cape Melville depending on Jasper's movement.

HEAVY RAINFALL is expected to develop along the coast from late Tuesday.

As the cyclone approaches the coast, ABNORMALLY HIGH TIDES are possible and large waves are likely along the coast.

Recommended Action:
People between Cape Melville and Townsville, including Cairns and Cooktown, should consider what action they will need to take if the cyclone threat increases.

- For the latest updates on road closures (https://qldtraffic.qld.gov.au)

- For cyclone preparedness and safety advice, visit Queensland's Disaster Management Services website (www.disaster.qld.gov.au).

- For emergency assistance call the Queensland State Emergency Service (SES) on 132 500 (for assistance with storm damage, rising flood water, fallen trees on buildings or roof damage).

Next Advice:
The next advice will be issued by 11:00 pm AEST Sunday 10 December.

In line with the Disaster Management Act 2003, the Queensland Government must make available for inspection, free of charge, by members of the public certain disaster management information. To enable this, the Disaster Management website was established to provide a platform for the Queensland G...

19/11/2023

The bubble has burst Yay. The bay has rain

30/09/2023

Opening 2024…. Looks good

26/08/2023

Steven Conlan

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11/08/2023

Now this looks like a place we could try for a weekend

Brooloo park offers exclusive Eco campsites in the scenic Mary Valley – if you are looking for a beautiful location that offers numerous private camping areas then this is the spot for you.

30/07/2023

Follow Mark's 2023 Road Trip trip

21/06/2023

Not much more to say

28/05/2023

Just spent the weekend at Gootchie Creek Gootchie Creek Escape, great weekend of camp fires camp oven cooking, relaxing over a few beers some red wine and finished the night off with a Hot Baileys. Life is bloody good

18/03/2023

Hervey Bay, it’s not a bad place

23/01/2023

Feed me Jumpers, feed me please…

12/01/2023

Please bring rain

08/12/2022

Kat and Jumpers Adventures

It is with the deepest sadness that we announce one of the most beloved members of our zoo family, Holly the Chimpanzee, passed away earlier this week.

Holly passed on Wednesday morning after becoming suddenly and unexpectedly ill late Tuesday afternoon. Her death has left zoo staff in shock, and both staff and the chimp troop are grieving their loss.

Holly has been at Rockhampton Zoo for almost 11 years and was loved by so many people. We want to extend our condolences to zoo staff during this time, as well as the community who have always supported and loved the zoo and Holly.

We want to assure the community we did everything we could and that Holly had the best possible care right until the end. Our staff stayed with her throughout Tuesday night on shifts to ensure she wasn’t alone.

We will closely be monitoring the troop over the coming days and weeks to see how they handle the loss but they have done a great job in looking after Gandali and their welfare is our top priority.

To read the full story visit: https://bit.ly/3hboubd

22/10/2022

We have been watching the East Coast Low currently affecting parts of the Gympie region.

The safety of our guests and the team is our number one priority and as such, have made the decision to cancel tomorrow’s (Sunday 23 October) train service.

The historic Gympie Station will also be closed.

We apologise for the inconvenience but recognise that weather events are outside of our control.

Great photo by Kat and Jumpers Adventures

14/10/2022

All set up, having a beer. Bring on Jimmy Barnes tomorrow….

08/10/2022

If you get the chance, jump aboard the Mary Valley Rattler, from Gympie to Amarmoor. Great few hours.

02/10/2022

Campfires Grand finals Beers Food, Gotta love life

03/09/2022

Our new camping towels

28/08/2022

We have now arrived home 5289 km in 3 weeks, with a slightly disrupted trip after 2 weeks we had to make dash back to Brisbane as mum had a massive fall, and ended up in hospital. We finished up have a couple of relaxing days at Habitat Noosa, Big Thank you to Kelly at Habitat Noosa for getting us in at last minute notice.
Plenty of highlights, Paranella Park, Ocean Rafting, Minjun Swing, Talaroo Hotsprings, Rockhampton Caves, but the one place we went to and we were like ahh it’s free let’s just go and see what it’s like was the Rockhampton Zoo, OMG wow what an amazing place….. BIg thank you to our Travel buddies Fiona, Steve Melinda and of course my No1 co pilot Katrina, Our 2022 adventure is over, now back to our short little weekends away. Already planning 2023

Follow Mark's Kat and Jumpers August 2022 Getaway trip

27/08/2022

Spent this afternoon cruising up the Noosa Everglades what an amazing experience was this, I remember doing this when I was in Year 11 school trip canoed and hiked (1983) but I don’t remember how beautiful it was….. Highly recommend doing this if you are up this way.