oiltreader:
Spardo:
Dipster:
oiltreader:
Thanks to Buzzer, DIG and DEANB for the pics
Oily
Old Aussie pics.Todays second pic is annotated Mackay, Queensland. Off topic but I recall I was there one evening whilst travelling up to FNQ when the main street in the town had trees that were full, really full, of Rainbow Lorikeets all screeching their heads off. It drove my wife (temporarily!) crazy. I have often wondered if that was a permanent feature of the town. Anybody know?
Sorry Dipster, can’t help, I arrived in Mackay, found the labour exchange, went out to a couple jobs both of which offered accommodation and the last of which took me back to Sarina. Then when I finished there I blew straight through to Townsville, so remember nothing about Mackay at all. Townsville neither come to think of it, I lived on the edge of town. When were you there?
Hi Dipster and Spardo, In the early 1920s I had two uncles(mother’s side) still in their teens emigrated, £10 Poms in Aussie speak settling in and around Sarina and later one of them to Mackay. With local government encouragement and some assistance they cut their way into the bush and established successful sugar cane farms, Early pioneers making their mark one with his own invention of a cane cutting machine, the rights of which he later sold to Massey Harris. On leaving school at 16 they were willing sponsor me joining them but mother would not sign the papers. There is even a street named after them in Sarina. Down a track off the main road and towards the beach one of them built a beach house, other properties followed and became
Crichton Street
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Oily
This isn’t your uncle is it Oily. 
Only joking mate.
youtube.com/watch?v=8jQD742bGsY
An old film from 1987 that shows glimpses of the Sarina area is Travelling North with Leo Mckern, that old grumpy git in Rumpole Of The Bailey.
There used to be sandwich shop in the main street of Sarina that sold I.M.H.O. the best crab rolls in the world. It was compulsory
for us to do a stop there when ever we were passing through north or south.
youtube.com/watch?v=d_vblR48xTo
I don’t know if you have already seen these David but I hope that you might find them interesting.