Airlie Beach, Queensland

12/4/2019

Shovel and I were up obscenely early on Friday morning to drive approximately 1,100kms from Mount Isa to Airlie Beach for the wedding of Amy (Shovel’s sister) and Zak. We stopped in Richmond for a steak sandwich at Treats for your Table a locally owned café serving homemade goods from an old weatherboard house on the main street, and arrived into Airlie Beach later that evening at around 9pm, after enjoying a curry for dinner in Bowen.

Richmond is about the halfway point between Mount Isa and Townsville and is always a great place to stop for a bite to eat and fuel refill. The town is famous for Kronosaurus Korner (the only museum dedicated to displaying marine reptiles) and a built stone replica of Cambridge Downs Homestead.

Amy & Zak's Wedding

Amy and Zak were married on a private out-of-town beach. In March 2017, Airlie Beach was hit by a category 3 cyclone, known as Debbie, which produced winds of 150km/h and left homes destroyed, with insurance losses totalling almost $2 billion. Two years on it’s difficult to imagine the town had experienced such devastation, as the region is recovering, thanks to the combined support of local residents who rallied together to restore the paradise holiday destination.

The Wedding Gift

Gumby attended a quilt making workshop at Treehouse Textiles in the Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, with the intention to make a quilt for the newlyweds. The gorgeous fabrics were purchased at Treehouse and the style of quilt is called, Vintage Comfort by Judy Newman who facilitated the workshop. Most of the patchwork was completed in Florence the caravan.