#Bundaberg Botanical Gardens

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Homecoming

Strawnecked Ibis roosting at dusk

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A boardwalk crosses a small lake in the Bundaberg Botanical Gardens at North Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia.

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THIS CALLS FOR A CELEBRATIOOOON!!!

It has been quite the journey since I started this business way back in 2017! I had never had what most people would call 'a real paying, steady job' before. Sure, I had volunteered and worked casually in different industries such as; retail, hospitality, childcare, housekeeping etc. There were several occassions where I was recognized as a great worker and highly recommended to be next in line to be put in the position of manager, or at least an employee and I would have done a darn good job at them too! But, due to unforeseen circumstances i.e. bad health, sudden tragety and even sometimes the jealousy and fear of my peers; I was knocked back; time and time and time again until I decided that I was just beating my head against a wall that just wasn't gonna move for me this way.

So, I decided that for once in my life; I'd take a REAL RISK. I did some research online; found what I was looking for; did a little move research, gathered some supplies together with what little money I had and made my first line of 'beach themed' macaroon containers. I was so proud of how them turned out. (Especially since the first batch of 'wedding themed' ones were kind of duds lol.) I took another risk and brought them along to the birthday party of a family friend. That's where I made my first sales.

Some of my family members kind of thought I was crazy, but I also had a lot of support coming my way too which really helped a lot! I started up a facebook page and gofundme campaign to have a bit of financial backing behind me. I had very optimistically hoped to get at least $2'500. I ended up with around $200 and something I think before I decided after a long time of not getting anymore donations to close it down lol, but you know what? It was still enough to keep going! I kept making more and more items, selling here and there, getting my name out more; I also kept watching all of the crafty/Artsy and business videos I could. I read articles, followed blogs, learned new skills and before I knew it, I was using techniques and making items that I NEVER thought I could, or would be able to and I've only kept expanding from there!

I have had many highs and lows, but its those little moments where a finished product that you made by hand is complete and those little victories where you make a sale to another happy customer, or gain a new follower; it's those little things that keep you going and have kept me going up until this point of May 14th, 2019.

It's these victories that DESERVE to be celebrated!!

And what better way to do that then to have A COMPETITION!!

Comp duration: 15th-22nd of May

Task:

Step 1:Go the Bundaberg Botanical Gardens and find this tree. (Pictured below)

Step 2:

Find the message (pictured below) written on one of the leaves and take your own photo of it and send it to me. (Either via tumblr or instagram @missjscorner and I will go through, see who the first three winners are and reply to them telling them what them have won, for those who win a physical prize, a home address, or P.O. Box will be required; rest assured, we will abide by privacy laws and your personal information shall be kept safe.)

There will be x3 winner slots.

First Place:

The first one to take the picture and send it to me will win: A FREE ITEM of their choosing from my products list and have 50% off their next purchase.(Only one-use Applicable and must be used within 18 months upon recieving it.) (Disclaimer: 50% off deal not available for smaller priced items i.e Items priced at $30 downwards.)

Second Place:

The Second person the get the picture and send it to me will win: 30% off of their next purchase. (Two usage applicable only. Both uses must be completed within 1 year.)

(Disclaimer: 30% off deal not available for smaller priced items.i.e Items priced at $15 downwards.)

Third Place: The Third person to take the picture and send it to me before time runs out will win 15% off of their next purchase. (Three use applicable, must be used within 8 months.)

(Disclaimer: 15% off deal not available for smaller priced products.i.e Items priced at $10 downwards.)

Well! Those are the rules! Those who won't comply or try to cheat will be disqualified and the postion will go to the next runner up- NO EXCEPTIONS.

Have fun everyone! Let's see where this goes!

~Miss J

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Die Ostküste -Teil 1

16.-23.11.2019

Von einer Farm mitten im nichts aus dem Outback auf dem Weg in die große Metropole Sydney...

Soo.. es ist mal wieder Zeit für ein Tagebucheintrag und ich weiß gar nicht wo ich anfangen soll :-D

In den letzten 2,5 Wochen ist sehr viel passiert ! Samstag haben Julia und ich das letzte mal die Pferde und Hunde gefüttert und nach dem letzten Frühstück war der Abschied von Lyle angesagt. Die folgende achtstündige Autofahrt bis kurz vor Bundaberg war von Umwegen geprägt - many bushfires ! Es brennt hier zwar gerade ziemlich viel (auch am Straßenrand von den Highways), aber die Räume sind großflächig abgesperrt und werden überwacht, sodass nichts passieren kann, solange man sich an die ausgeschilderten Anweisungen und Ansagen hält - also keine Sorge! Angekommen auf dem Campingplatz haben wir mit dem Campingkocher essen gekocht und mussten sehr über die philippinische Frau schmunzeln, die uns eine halbe Stunde lang erzählt hat, wie toll ihr Mann sei.

Gladstone als Stadt ist nicht sehr sehenswert, vom berühmten Lookout haben wir eine Baustelle betrachtet und der Strand war voller Algen. Aber mit dem Luxus, dass Julia ihr eigenes Auto hat, sind wir direkt weiter nach Agnes Water in meine Banana-City gefahren :-) Nach der Nacht im Auto sind wir ordentlich wandern gewesen und haben den Strand genossen.

Unser neuer Rhythmus im Auto: um 5 Uhr aufstehen und bei unserem Haferflocken-Frühstück Wachwerden.

Dann war unser nächster Stopp Rainbow Beach (sehr schön !). Jedoch gab es einen Riesen Schock, bevor wir überhaupt am Strand angekommen sind. Auf dem Parkplatz von Woolworth (Lebensmittelladen) ist uns die Riesen Pfütze im Fußraum des Beifahrersitzes aufgefallen... Und wir beiden Mädels hatten natürlich ganz viel Ahnung von Autos und wussten genau was wir sehen als wir uns den Motor angeschaut haben ! Zum Glück (und das fällt hier wirklich tagtäglich auf!) sind die Australier unglaublich offene, liebe und hilfsbereite Menschen. Sofort kam ein Ehepaar auf uns zu und hat sich erkundigt, ob bei uns alles gut ist. Die beiden sind dann mit uns (obwohl sie ihr warmes Mittagessen in der Hand hatten) sofort zur nächsten Autowerkstatt gefahren und haben den Menschen dort alles auf Englisch erklärt. Das Problem lag bei unserer Klimaanlage und es wurde sofort behoben und wir konnten wieder beruhigt weiterfahren! Der Strand war dann ein Traum ! Leuchtendes blaues Wasser, ein breiter Strand, riesen hohe Sanddünen,... Nach ein paar entspannten Stunden ging es dann wieder zum nächsten kostenlosen Campingplatz.

Nächster Tag: Fahrt zum Dolphin Center in Tin Can Bay, wo wir frei lebene Delfine füttern konnten. Die Tiere sind verletzt und kommen seit Jahren jeden Morgen aus freiem Willen zu der gleichen Stelle und werden verarztet und gefüttert.

Danach ging es nach dem kurzen Stopp Gympie - eine alte Stadt, nicht sehr besonders- nach Noosa.

Noosa... der Ort, der von vielen als schönster ganz Australiens bezeichnet wird ! Und der Ort, besonders der Nationalpark, war wirklich traumhaft ! Wir haben eine Nacht nach einem leckeren Fish&Chips Abendbrot in Tewantin geschlafen.

Den zweiten Tag in Noosa sind wir durch den ganzen Nationalpark an den Klippen entlang, durch Wälder, an Stränden vorbei, bis hin zu den wunderschönen Fairy Pools gelaufen. Vor ganzer Freude haben wir auch glatt vergessen ein Parkticket zu ziehen und den ersten Strafzettel gesammelt ($66). Abends mussten wir uns dann mal wieder eine Dusche suchen (die gibt es auf den kostenlosen Campingplätzen nicht) - diesmal war es ein Sportcenter :-D

Den nächsten Tag ging es dann zur Sunshine Coast, die wir bei einem langen Spaziergang bewundern konnten, bevor wir weiter Richtung Brisbane zum Lookout über die Skyline sind. Dort gab es den zweiten langen Spaziergang in den botanic gardens und zum Planetarium (dort gab es eine Ausstellung über die Geschichte der Aborigines). Als wir abends auf dem Campingplatz waren, kam die Nachricht von Lyle, das ein Paket für mich angekommen sei... Lea hat mir ein Geburtstagspaket geschickt - und ich hab mich sehr darüber gefreut !

Je weiter es in den Süden geht, desto kälter wird es auch. Teilweise gibt es Wetter für eine lange Hose, einen Pullover und einer Jacke ! Am Wochenende haben wir uns morgens für die Großstadt Brisbane ein bisschen schick gemacht ! Da können wir ja nicht mit unseren viel zu großen Hemden und Schlappen als Schuhe, wie auf der Farm umherlaufen... sind eben zwei ganz unterschiedliche Welten ! Unser online vorgebuchter Parkplatz ($6 für den ganzen Tag) lag auch mitten in der City, von wo wir dann zu Fuß unterwegs waren: ein Spaziergang am Wasser, auf einen kleinen Markt, einem Weihnachts-Chor vor einem Riesen Tannenbaum zugehört, zur Art Gallery, zu den berühmten „BRISBANE“ Buchstaben, mit der kostenlosen Fähre (City-Hopper) auf die andere Flussseite, an einem coolen Motorrad-Café vorbei, durch China Town bis hin zur Bakery Lane (unser Lieblingsplatz in Brisbane). In der kleinen ruhigen Straße habe ich dann mit Julia zusammen mein Geburtstagsessen nachgeholt - es gab Ramen, Frühlingsrollen und ein Eis zum Nachtisch. Auf dem Rückweg sind wir ganz spontan zu Ikea gefahren und haben Weingläser und Kerzen gekauft - was auch sonst? :-) dann gab es auf dem Weg zum Campingplatz noch einen Stopp bei Aldi, was es hier natürlich auch gibt.

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Bundaberg Botanical Gardens

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ESP/ENG . Cada vez que descubrimos una nueva ciudad australiana visitamos, sin dudarlo, los jardines botánicos. Este país es famoso por la cantidad de animales que viven en el y en estos jardines siempre encuentras de todo tipo de ellos 🇦🇺🌿🦋 . Esta imagen fue tomada en el Jardín Botánico de Bundaberg. Este santuario verde de 27 hectáreas incluye más de 10.000 plantas, un tren de caña de azúcar en funcionamiento y hasta un Salón de la Aviación. También puedes pasear por los jardines japoneses, mojarte en el bosque tropical australiano (sí, cuenta con lluvia artificial) o hacer un picnic junto a los muchos lagos que conforman el parque 🌳🏞️🦎 . Pero, sin duda alguna, lo mejor de este lugar son las más de 100 especies de aves que puedes ver por todas partes. No exageramos si decimos que nunca habíamos visto tantas aves tan grandes juntas. Había de todo tipo, desde los majestuosos pelicanos hasta garzas, ibis y decenas de aves de todos los colores 🐦🦃🦉 . Every time we discover a new Australian city we visit the botanical gardens without hesitation. This country is famous for the number of animals that live in it and in these gardens you always find all kinds of them 🇦🇺🌿🦋 . This image was taken at the Bundaberg Botanical Garden. This 27-hectare green sanctuary includes more than 10,000 plants, a working sugar cane train and even an Aviation Show. You can also stroll through the Japanese gardens, get wet in the Australian rainforest (yes, it does have artificial rain) or have a picnic next to the many lakes that make up the park 🌳🏞️🦎 . But, without a doubt, the best thing about this place are the more than 100 species of birds that you can see everywhere. We are not exaggerating if we say that we have never seen so many such large birds together. There were all kinds, from the majestic pelicans to herons, ibis and dozens of birds of all colors 🐦🦃🦉 (at Bundaberg Botanical Gardens) https://www.instagram.com/p/COXuWcZgzsl/?igshid=ipqsa8txusrs

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According to Bundaberg news mail: 10 things you need to try in Bundy 1 Hinkler Hall of Aviation 2 Bundaberg Botanic Gardens 3 Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery 4 Mystery Craters 5 Lady Musgrave Experience 6 RiverFeast 7 Beaches 8 Bundy Belle Cruises 9 Bundaberg Rum Distillery 10 Mon Repos turtles How many have you tried? Extra one Get a massage from holistic massage🌻👌 #lovebundy #thingstodoinbundy #lovemassage #holisticmassage #bundaberg #welcome https://www.facebook.com/holisticchinesemassagetherapy/photos/a.448379412262829/805243669909733/?type=3 For the best massage in Bundaberg, visit http://www.holistic-massage.com.au

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The 8 most beautiful places to visit in Australia

The list of things to see in Australia is long but you must know top 10 australia places to visit! Here is the list of the most beautiful places to see to visit Australia!

The Great Barrier Reef

Australia's iconic landmark, the Great Barrier Reef is also one of the most famous attractions in the world. Extended over 2,600 kilometers from Cape York to Bundaberg, it is the largest coral reef in the world. Many marine species as well as billions of polyp corals live there, spread over 900 islands and 2,900 reefs, making it a unique site, listed on the UNESCO World Heritage List since 1981. If you visit do top 10 activities in Melbourne.

 Because of its warm and clear waters, its biodiversity and its immediacy to the coast, it is a marine paradise for sunbathers and one of the underwater wonders that must continue to be protected.

The Whitsundays Islands

An archipelago located right in the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Queensland. This is another must-see activity to visit Australia: Hundreds of tourists visit each year, but the Whitsunday Islands, which form the archipelago, are enough (there are 74) to be quiet.

And the landscapes are luxurious, unique in the world: beaches and strips of white sand, warm waters, crystalline, emeralds and turquoise warmed by a tropical sun ... Airlie Beach is one of the most beautiful beaches in Australia and is the best known starting point for the Whitsundays Archipelago.  It is among the top 10 beaches in Australia.

Cairns and the rainforest

 A coastal city with a warm, humid tropical climate, Cairns is surrounded by  greenery on the mountains: the rainforest, where you can enjoy beautiful walks between mangroves, eucalyptus forests and we can observe many endemic species dating from evolutions from Gondwana (marsupials, rodents, birds, reptiles, etc.).

To see nearby: Palm Cove, Port Douglas and Mission Beach.

Fitzroy Island

Fitzroy Island, a beautiful island in the Great Barrier Reef where you can wander and swim or snorkel, admiring brightly colored tropical fish.

Sydney

You can come here to visit the Opera House, with the view of the Sydney Harbor Bridge. Sydney has many other attractions: its nightlife - to the Kings Cross district -, its huge Botanical Garden - surf beaches (Bondi Beach, Clovelly Beach, Palm Beach, Avalon Beach, Manly, Maroubra Beach, etc.).

The Blue Mountains

The Blue Mountains National Park is two hours north-west of Sydney and is a 1,436-square-kilometer stretch of sandstone mountain range at an elevation of 1,112 meters.

An integral part of the Australian Cordillera, the Blue Mountains is dug by deep gorges reaching a depth of almost 1,000 meters in places. Vertiginous peaks that would make the Verdon Gorge almost for a very small furrow.

The Great Ocean Road

After visiting Melbourne, what to do in Australia during your road trip? Driving west, drive on the Great Ocean Road , the famous 243-kilometer coastal road along the state of Victoria, with its magnificent views and cliffs overlooking the ocean:  Loch Ard Gorge, London Bridge, The Twelve Apostles are the most famous emblematic points.

Tasmania

Wander through bays and multiple national parks - Franklin-Gordon Wild Rivers National Park, Southwest National Park, and more. - discovering an incredibly rich biodiversity. If you love nature, this is where you have to go!

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Dementia group enjoy gardening project - Bundaberg Now

Dementia group enjoy gardening project – Bundaberg Now

Ella and Reg Tanner taking part in the gardening project.

Bundaberg people living with dementia and their carers enjoyed an innovative gardening project in the Botanic Gardens on Friday, recalling fond times as they planted snap dragons.

Reg Tanner and wife Ella were two of the participants in the joint Ozcare and Bundaberg Regional Council initiative.

Reg, 78, is now a full-time carer for Ella…

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Straw-necked Ibis, Bundaberg Botanical Gardens

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A misadventure.

My last post mentioned that we were heading north to Childers to do some farm work for 6 weeks in order to earn some money and work towards a second year visa, just in case we might want it. As I write this, we are sat in a service station, just north of Brisbane, charging our phones and job hunting. It has not been a good week.

We arrived in Childers on Tuesday afternoon in high spirits. Childers is a lovely town, it looks like a film set with all the old buildings and bright colours. We checked out the art museum and the backpackers memorial for those who died in the fire at the palace hostel in 2000. We had a little wander up the high street then set off for our campsite about 20 minutes out of town, just up the road from the farm we would be working on. It was a lovely area, surrounded by farmland, woodland, and tonnes of wildlife. We had a nice night at the free campsite and woke up at 5am ready to do some hard work. 

We were to pick tomatoes and would be earning $5.70 per bucket of tomatoes. Work started just after 6am and usually finished around midday. There were a few new ones starting with us that day so we were given our instructions, and assigned a row of tomato plants each then set to work. The tomato plants grow so thick so you have to pull apart the bushes and check high and low for tomatoes that are ready to be picked, mainly red or orange in colour with only a little green, if any. Sounds easy enough, just pick tomatoes and put them in a bucket. Well friends, I am here to tell you that it was not. The buckets were 8kg buckets. The tomatoes had to be de-stemmed and checked before they could go in the bucket, there had to be no leaves, no blemishes, and you had to check for worms etc. It took bloody ages to fill a bucket. And you're​ up and down constantly searching through the bushes. And then you have to hoist your bucket along the row. It was hot once the sun got up and it was hard work. On day one we worked for just over 5 hours, and I need picked 3 buckets of tomatoes. I earned a grand total of $15 for my efforts, about $3 an hour, which translates as about £1.50. The minimum wage in Australia is around $18 an hour, just to put that into context. Between us we worked for 10 hours that day and earned the equivalent of £25. We were defeated. And to top it off we ran out of gas on the way into Bundaberg after we finished work and had to be towed by RACQ for a second time in a week. It was a bad day. That night we paid for a powered campsite so we could charge our phones and, most importantly, have hot showers. We were exhausted, disheartened and utterly defeated, but we agreed to keep at it and return the following day. We did just that, up at quarter to 5, at the farm for just after 6am, in agony because we had torn muscles left right and centre the previous day. But we got to work. The first rows we were put on were full of dead bushes and rotten tomatoes. In two hours I picked just over a bucket's worth. I was ready to go and find Daniel, get in the van, and leave and never return. But then I was given a row of cherry tomatoes and things picked up. I picked a lot of buckets, bringing my total to 5 by midday, usually finishing time. I was knackered come 12, my whole body ached, I was hot, dehydrated, hungry, I'd been on my feet since 6am without a break. I was ready to go home. That day they made us work until half past one, no breaks, if you dared go to the loo not only would you be questioned, but you're wasting valuable picking time. I drank half a bottle of water in 7 hours. I had eaten breakfast almost 9 hours previously. I hadn't stopped. I picked just over 7 buckets that day. Daniel did the same. My fingers were bleeding, despite my gloves, my back, legs and feet were so sore and tired I could barely carry myself to the van. It was miserable. When we met up at the end of the shift we had a chat, we had both found out from various sources that you don't get paid for two weeks after starting. And because we had found the jobs independently, not through a hostel, it could take even longer to process the paperwork. We decided we needed to have a serious think about whether or not we could continue to work there. And as an extra note, the people we worked for were awful. The big boss had turned up on the second day and just screamed at us to pick faster and any time anybody paused to drink or stretch their back, he yelled at us not to stop. One of the overseers was rude, and racist, and shouted a lot, he spoke to us like we were stupid and made what I assume he thought were witty comments about my hair colour and tomatoes - they weren't witty and they weren't funny. It just wasn't a pleasant environment to work in and the work itself was horrendous. I wouldn't mind if we had been earning enough to actually live. We would have just about managed to pay for fuel, food and a hot shower once or twice a week.

We had a chat and decided to cut our losses and not go back. We were miserable when we didn't need to be. Most of the people we worked with were there because they were stuck. They were backpackers staying in hostels, barely making enough to pay rent let a lone to save to get out of there. Many were working two jobs just to meet rent. Many were going without food so they could afford to pay the hostels. And these are people who came to do farm work in order to qualify for a second year visa. The situations some people found themselves in were unbelievable, starving to pay rent, working two back breaking jobs for tiny pay just to survive. There was a big scandal a few years back about worker exploitation on farms around the Bundaberg area, stories of farms colluding with hostels to control workers income and charge ridiculous amounts so that they ended up stuck there with no way out, allowing the hostels to make more money. Abuse of workers, especially non-English speaking workers, not paying people for work or paying them tiny amounts. I read all about this and read up on my rights before we went but I didn't think I'd actually experience it. And the thing is where we were was probably one of the better farms, I saw job advertisements where rates of pay were far lower. It's actually evil what these farms get up to, at least we are in such a position that we can go where the work is, we can travel, even if we are broke, we have a home at least, a bed. The majority of people we met were barely surviving, and these are people who just came to Australia to see what it had to offer and want to work towards extending their visa. I really think more people need to be aware of what goes on because it is inhumane, it's taking advantage of vulnerable travellers and leaving them with no options. It's​ despicable.

Thankfully we were able to leave, we're heading south to Brisbane to look for jobs there, there seems to be a lot of vacancies in the city and right now we'd work almost anything, because you can't get worse than hard labour for a pathetic wage and some verbal abuse thrown in for good measure. We're lucky, we had the option to leave, which is more than what most have.

We're annoyed because it was a costly and depressing misadventure, but it was also a learning experience and opened our eyes to some awful things, hopefully this will make us more cautious and considerate when making future decisions.

I've included some pictures of our short time up there, of our free campsite, the beach we visited after our second day of work when we were thoroughly miserable and trying to figure out what the hell we were going to do next, and of Bundaberg botanical gardens, which we visited before we began our journey back South, for some much needed joy, in order to lift our spirits.

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Bundaberg Botanical Gardens

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