ROAD TRIPPING TO.......MT MORGAN PART 1

My mothers family are originally from a little mining town in Northern Queensland called Mt Morgan. My grandfather (known affectionately as Poppa) was born here and we went to visit his sister Mary. I love Aunty Mary - she's great. Not only is she a card playing whizz, but she was the FIRST woman EVER to get a driving license in the whole of Mt Morgan. (she is also the oldest ever woman driver there now!).

This is a photo of their house...this was the actual house that Poppa and Mary and all their siblings grew up in. Mary's late husband Sam secretly moved the house to this location whilst he and Mary were on their honeymoon !!
They had one daughter Valerie, who is sadly also no longer with us.

Sam was not a tall man, hence the low ceiling under the house.... The think I remember most about visits to their place as a kid was the unusual amount of water tanks in the back yard.... They all lead to this one sink under the house...I could never work out why there were so many taps, actually I still don't know why really...
Unfortunately Aunty Mary had a fall a couple days before we arrived so most of our time was spent in the Mt Morgan Hospital !!! We were allowed to take her out for a couple of hours so we drove around Mt Morgan as she talked us through it's history....This is inside the house - Dad somehow managed to bang his head on these chimes every time he walked past them !!
We went to all of Mt Morgan's hotspots (aka the two restaurants in town!) One was recommended purely because the staff "tied their hair up" - now that is posh !!! Word mustn't have got around though, because we were the only ones there..... Dad took time out after dinner to show me his very unique photo taking style !! - it's essential to tuck those elbows in tight....

TO BE CONTINUED...