Day(s) off… traveling back to Cairns with my support crew (my Dad), who needs to hand back his hired campervan tonight. He has then booked & shouted me to a day shared with him on the outer reef, tomorrow. Then he flies back to the Gold Coast on Thursday morning. And I have now booked my flight to Sydney (via Brisbane) shortly after his leaves.
My plan is to leave my trolley with a friend of a friend in Cairns. Our family friend will then pick it up and take it to Ravenshoe as a more suitable long-term storage, until I return in the cooler months of next year April or May 2025. Then I will need to collect it and take it back to Lakeland, before walking on to the end of the bitumen around Laura, or Coen, then continue to Weipa and (old) Marpoon, and possibly up the development road, or the old telegraph track, (depending a bit on whether I have a support crew again, or not) to New Mapoon up the top near Bamaga..
Today, at he Riffle Creek Camping Ground I had a “chance” encounter with two people who had thought through life as best they could and were putting time aside to connect with others in a way that was learning from Yeshua, my hero too! A different kind of Jehovah’s Witnesses than I have ever met before. & I told them as much. How refreshing to sense a real commitment to reality with all its scary unexpected twists and turns, instead of to a virtual reality, with all its predictability.
Adrian & Sue asked good questions & listened to my answers, and asked deeper questions… we talked together for ~45min… and although we may well have very different beliefs about many important things, I sensed a deeper commitment to the (person and) approach of Yeshua himself, which is a core bond or tie. We exchanged phone numbers. I hope we meet again. Thanks for sharing some of the time of your life with me you two. And thanks to creative altruism, which is probably the source of all true mateship.
We got to Cairns, found our motel room, went to fill the gas up at BCF, packed our bags for plane travel Thursday, packed the trolley for delivery around 8:30pm. Thanks Deb for keeping it safe for a while at your place, thanks Jane for being willing to carry it in your ute back to Ravenshoe. Then thanks to the hire company who hired the van to my Dad, and let him get it back before midnight,
and the Bohemian Resort, with pleasant facilities reasonably priced.
And thanks again Dad for helping me walk towards a goal that you don’t necessarily share for yourself. It feels very affirming,
and although we sometimes sparked off each other, I have sensed a deeper bond growing between us through this shared fortnight.
In bed by around midnight. Write this blog up.. & hope to be back in cooler weather (April/May) next year (2025)..
Thanks again to everyone who has contributed to such a beautiful trip of looking , listening, learning and sharing insights, experiences, and awe & gratefulness. Closer every leg to reaching a major goal. I hope that it has been a positive thing (a blessing), to others, as it has been for me.
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