6th, 7th & 8th September Today we left Yeppoon heading for Boyne Island near Gladstone to catch up with our dear friends Peter and Kate Tregaskis and their three beautiful children Tom, Elly and Tristen. I was so excited to catch up with them as we haven't seen them for ten years. We had to catch up on shopping so we went to Rockhampton and filled up on the usual staples (alcohol). Then heading to Gladstone we had a rather uneventful trip. When we got to Gl...

4th September Woke up to the pleasant sound of pouring rain and howling wind, for a minute I thought I was back in Victoria. Today we are moving further south to Rockhampton in search of a beach without the wind. The first stop on the trip was the Sugar Shed which is a small distillery producing rum from sugar cane. Joe thought it would be a place to pick up some handy hints. The distillery tour took an hour in which we learnt about the process of producing su...

We woke up at Cape Hillsborough to an extremely windy morning. We had morning tea (scones) with some other park guests. The park had been doing this weekly to raise money for Daffodil Day and we were more than happy to make a contribution to such a worthy cause. We drove back into Mackay and went firstly to the marina and saw the last functioning kerosene lighthouse in Australia. We had a wander around the foreshore and the CBD and then went and found the early...

Up and on the road this morning and made our way to Cape Hillsborough which is about 50km north of Mackay. The caravan park is in a beautiful national park and right on the beach. After setting up camp we drove to Mackay to have a look around. Firstly we went and stocked up on groceries and fuel, then drove over to Eimeo Beach which we read had recently been named as one of the best 101 beaches in Australia. The tide was a long way out and didn't make it very i...

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY firstly my wonderful dad and to all the other loving dad's out there!!! Today was Father's Day and I wanted to go for a drive to get phone service so I could call my dad. Joe and Col also wanted to speak to their kids so we headed back towards civilisation. First stop was at a lookout called The Sky Window. We made our phonecalls and sent our messages and with smiles on our faces we walked the short distance to the sky lookout. It was a lovel...