Alma Creek Holidays Dululu, Queensland, Australia
By Sunshine Toledo on 19-Oct-09. Waypoint GA1625

This was my Father's school near my Grandfather's property.

The position of this cache is of significance to our family. If you are at the co-ordinates then you will see a corner block of land on which a school used to be. Alma Creek State School opened on this site in 1915 and closed in 1935. The young teacher who was the Headmaster at this school in it's later years married the daughter of the farmer who built the first house on the left down Eriksens Road. They are my parents and my grandparents and I know this area very well from when I came here for holidays from the 1940s until the farm blocks were sold in the 1980s. The school was shifted to Bunerba closer to Dululu after a huge flood covered all this area in the early 1930s. All my uncle's children went to school at Bunerba.

Although I wasn't around in the days of the school being at Alma Creek, I can remember learning to ride horses, drive tractors and shoot a rifle while staying with my grandfather. As there was little traffic down Eriksens Road( I knew the Eriksens too as they lived about 2 miles further down the road) we used to play cricket out on the dirt road and it had an excellent surface as a cricket pitch.

My earliest memories of being on the farm were those of going into Wowan in a horse and cart each Saturday morning in our best clothes and hat to collect mail and buy supplies in the form of bread, meat and other necessities and having a milk-shake in the Bluebird Cafe. I can also remember my Grandfather playing pool or billiards in the room at the back of the barber's shop. On the farm, I can remember walking behind my Grandfather as he ploughed the fields with 4 huge draught horses that pulled his ploughs.

My Grandfather raised cattle, grew crops, ran a dairy and at one time, grew a grape orchard  that was ruined by parrots who used to strip the bunches of grapes for their juice. Down Rifle Range Road, my Grandfather and Uncle helped to create the rifle range and became some of the foundation members of that Dululu Rifle Club. Alma Creek always had ducks on the water and my Grandmother was a very good cook on a wood stove and created many delicious meals including some Alma Creek ducks.

At s23 54.479 e150 17.512 was my Grandfather's house; at s23 54.519 e150 17.573 was my Uncle's house built in the 1960s and at s23 54.477 e150 17.461 were the stock yards and dairy.

Now to find and log the cache: At the co-ordindates look north, go towards the corner post of the school block of land and you will see a letter carved into the post. What is that letter? If you can tell me you can claim a find for this cache and THANKS for reading my story.

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