E-BLAST - SUN 30 May

Bottom left  -  Crediton  -   follow the yellow marked road to Eungella  -  60 min to Mackay
My father Seymour pioneered Crediton (Dairy) - 1938 selection Lot 30 - cleared the land - bought 'a shop' building in Sarina and trucked it to Crediton up the Eungella range. It was the first house in the district to have a septic. When Darwin was bombed in WWII the men of Crediton signed up. The USAF base in Mackay required the farmers with milking cows to return to their dairy farms and provide their morning milk to the USAF air base and the afternoon milk to Mackay. 

Seymour went on a working holiday in 1946 (his sister and husband looked after the farm) and in Batlow met Joan Wynn (Land Army) - married in Sydney Easter 1947. She had never seen the farm and after the honeymoon was a little taken aback to find a TEA advert on the side of the house. At the tin-kettling to welcome to new bride, the women were focused on the septic - within six months every farm house had a septic. My brother Kim born in 1948, Mark 1951 and Susette 1953. 

We have taken our children too see Crediton and Eungella (where tourists see the Platypus). Crediton is an hour's drive to Mackay and an hour's drive north to Laguna Quays Respite. My mum said 60 minutes to the doctor - same today.  Wes took his bride Madeline to Crediton, Anthea and her family are visiting Crediton early July.