Day 76 Yeppoon - Rockhampton - Gladstone - Agnes Water - 1770 "Down by the sea I found your hidden treasure Just you and me, We overdosed on pleasure Yonnies in the wind, We're ruggin' up for winter Putting out the bins In cold and windy weather......." There were lots of animals at the Zoo in Rockhampton today - but we were the only monkeys! Gee it poured with rain last night! I had hoped that it would rain itself out but no luck there. We awoke to g...

Day 75 Airlie Beach - Proserpine - Mackay - Yeppoon "so jump in my car we'll go 100 around the bend, we'll take this road until we're back at the start yet again....." Today was a moving day. Everyone was on the move. Some heading North, some heading South and some moving on.....poor Leonard! We left Airlie Beach under light grey skies with lots of blue patches just after 8. We drove through Proserpine and then headed South towards Mackay. We stopped in at M...

Day 74 Airlie Beach and Shute Harbour "all the cops in the donut shop say way oh way oh ooh wayo wayo...." We needed to chat to the boys in blue today. We awoke to grayish skies with blue tinges and intermittent light rain again today. It's hard to get used to rain again after glorious sunshine for so long. Still, it's not enough rain to stop you from doing anything - wont even wash the car! We left at about 9am to drive into Airlie Beach proper and out to S...

Day 73 Townsville - Ayr - Bowen - Airlie Beach "get your motor runnin, head out on the highway...." Headwind.... We woke to grey skies this morning. First time in over 10 weeks the sky wasn't cloudless and blue! Before getting back on the road we decided to drive back to The Strand and maybe have a swim at the lagoon at the beach. Too windy though and even though the water temp was ok, no one was interested. We walked along the beachfront and out onto the je...

Day 72 Lucinda - Ingham - Townsville "Let's be kids again Life was so simple then Let's be kids, again......" If we only had another week...... We left Lucinda at 8.30 to head further south towards Townsville. From there we were just going to see what eventuated - and that was nothing as it turned out. We stopped at Ingham to fuel and them drove a short distance to the Tyto wetlands. Cayden has developed a big interest in birds this trip - he has always lo...