mtbrider wrote:PS I actually live in Carindale now and do remember the arsenic stories from the old tannery. I think this was closer to Bulimba Creek on the southern side of the golf course and not really where the shopping centre is. Mind you I was very young at the time having been brought home as a new baby to Winstanley Street Carina about 3 houses up from where Carindale shopping centre is now.
We did not stay there too long as mum didn't like living in a housing commission area and we moved to Morningside / Seven Hills (we lived on the corner with one street in M'side and the other in S Hills) so I only had to cross the street and I was in the bush for a bit of trials action dodging the rangers on their Honda XL's.
Apart from a stint in Mareeba and Gladstone have not really strayed too far have I.
Yes now you mention it I think I was geographically wrong about the tannery - oh well.
So you have lived in similar places to me hey? Balmoral 1959-1981, Thornlands 1981-1983, Moorooka 1983 - 1988, Alligator Creek (near Townsville) 1988 - 1995, Gladstone 1995-present.
When were you in Mareeba? I used to go trail riding all over the place from Eungella to Palmer River when I was up there and in the Pony Expresses and Observed Trials.