What are people buying?

[Spanner]

She loves Cairns, mate- as long as Kuranda (Mike's never been on the sky rail, so we will go up for one day), shopping, the reef, Mareeba, etc, feature in the plans. Not three days of looking at "army things".

[grizzlymc]

Strange cattle, these women.,

[Spanner]

What she overlooked was that she could have spent three days shopping, lunching and whatever else she wanted while Mike and I drooled on the exhibits in the museum. But I neglected to mention that.

[grizzlymc]

I'm sure she is much happier at home.

[ochoin]

Nice place, Cairns. But Mareeba? I'm not sure about the attraction of that particular town. Now Atherton, Tolga, Milla Milla or Yungaburra are very pleasant.

donald

[ochoin]

I've been watching the Cairns tank museum's Youtube series on their restoration of a Grant. I can't wait to see the beast up close.
We'll be up that way at Xmas.

donald

[grizzlymc]

If we'd had to blitz the Japs in 42, a division of grants would have been our secret sauce.

[FreddBloggs]

They never coped with Lees or Grants in Burma.

[grizzlymc]

Imagine how they would have coped on the advance south from Townsville.

[Spanner]

Mareeba has an excellent coffee shop (Coffee Works) and it's a nice loop drive Kuranda-Mareeba-Atherton-Yungaburra, Donald. The Atherton is one of my favourite places in QLD- it was a nice escape from Townsville when I was with 2/4. I can't think of better entertainment than watching a bikini-clad backpacker trying to cook bacon and eggs on the public barbies.

When did we start getting the Grant's and Lees, Grizz? I think it was March 43, so Tojo would already be driving past Gympie- if they'd actually intended visiting- before the M3's could have arrived in any numbers. There's an interesting scenario- Japanese armour vs a mixed bag of Mk.VIB, Medium Mk II, M3 Stuarts and token or two Matilda II and M3 Grant. Location around Pineapple Gap or a landing at Marilyn beach, Shoalwater Bay.