The fruit pickers woke us up at 530 am as they headed off to work. We tried to go back to sleep but it was too tempting to get an early start and so got up and had coffee. We were all packed up and on our way by 730 am. Lyn waved us off, as did the dogs, and the drive to Mackay was the quietest and calmest drive of the day. We found a service station south of Mackay that made great cheap toast for breakfast for the kids and stopped there for half an hour trying to fill them up. Next stop was lunch at Rockhampton where we found a McDonalds on the highway and had another half hour stop. We were back on the road by 2 pm and the next part of the trip was the slowest and the least scenic. Road works were everywhere but no one was working as it was Sunday and yet the signs still enforced us to slow down. The countryside had changed from green sugar cane crops to brown grass grazing fields. We reached Gin Gin around 430 pm and the kids had started to complain about being in the car so we decided to stop for the night in a great rest area just before the town. There were about 20 vans already parked and set up for the night. We found a spot close to an undercover picnic area and the toilets. The kids ran straight off to play in the picnic area while Nick and I sat in the last of the sun enjoying a coffee. We had dinner and skipped showers and the kids spent the evening inside playing until bed. Nick and I spent the evening hoping the van battery would last long enough for us to watch an episode of GoT!!