It works, its amazing.

We received the "The Force Trainer" on Friday. Harri was very excited. I must admit that i had to try it first to calibrate it. Then i let Harri have a go. I could not believe it. It works, Its amazing. It really uses your brain waves to control a fan that elevates the ball in the tube. It takes some getting use to the different level of concentration to adjust the different level of fan speed. Harri seems to be better at this that i am. I have taken a video and will endeavor to find out how to up load it. For now i have taken a photo of him using the game. notice the ball half way up the tube. Also note that Harri is in his new chair as well. The head rest is a trial.

Monday earlier in the week was a public holiday for us. So we set off for a short 1 day trip to a national park just south of Brisbane. O'Reilly's is a resort & picnic grounds in a part of the very big Lamington National Park on the Queensland / New South Wales border. We did not tell the children where we were heading, until we got there. There was a short, mostly wheelchair friendly walk, only 50 meters is gravel. The walkway takes you on a series of suspension bridges up in the trees. At times you are 15 meters above the ground, and able to see the rainforest at the level of the birds. From the further most point in the walkway, i went higher up a ladder, to the canopy and amazing outlook over the valley(not for the faint hearted). O'Reilly's are trying to raise money to finish the last 50 meters of the walkway.

We also had a look in the tea gardens, we were advised that this was mostly not wheelchair friendly.

But they did not know that they were talking to Mr. I Go Anywhere. It took a lot of muscle but we saw all of the gardens. The photos do not show Harri's face, but let me tell you, he was certainly laughing.

O'Reilly's was made famous when a plane called the Stinson, crashed into the rainforest in the 1930's.

Bernard O'Reilly had a hunch that it crashed nearby, and set off into the rainforest. He found 2 survivors and organised some local farms to mount a rescue. This last photo is at the memorial to the Stinson.