OVERJOYED living in SENSATIONAL Queensland

I am sharing where I live.  The most delightful place on earth. Our State slogan is: beautiful one day and perfect the next. 

My home is a typical timber Queenslander, built on stilts to withstand the weather. 

The underneath is 12 feet high and the same area as the house above. Enclosed with a wooden fence, this keeps intruders out and allows air to circulate. 
All house windows and doors are fly screen covered and mostly kept open summer and winter. 

Living in the sub-tropics means pleasant weather all year round. It can become very hot in summer and currently with little rainfall we conserve water. Yes, we are actually in a drought and scary bushfires abound. 

We have two water tanks to the topside and back of the house and these help with garden watering. 

This is a country town surrounded by various plantations of Mango, Pawpaw, Citrus, Bananas, Advocado, and a variety of Berries plus Vegetables. 
Our own Mango tree in the backyard stands some thirty feet tall. 

One of our water tanks is visible here, as is the undercover clothesline. I NEVER use a clothes drier. 

We have an abundance of birds that my American Hubby likes to feed.. 

Here are but a few, the Rainbow Lorikeet is on the feeder with the white corella cockatoos further back on the ground. 

A Kookaburra watches from our tall pine tree. 

The Lorikeets also eat from our native bottle brush trees. 

  The Pacific Ocean at Rainbow Beach is only 74 kilometers or 46 miles from us. Hubby loves driving along the sand. It goes for 380klm (236 miles). 

How big is Australia?? 
About the same size as the USA. Tasmania is left out of this. 

Compared to Europe: 

 I LOVE that we don't have borders for illegals to cross. 

In the year 1606 Capt. Pedro Fernandez de Quiros gave this continent (country, Island) the name “Australia del Espiritu Santo” or literally “Southland of the Holy Spirit”. 
He took possession of the land, in the name of Jesus. 

(ref https://www.swcs.com.au/aust2.htm)

Listen to our heritage song.