Saturday 8th February 2014

This morning we stopped off at Bundaburg distillery to see how they make their rum! It was a good tour. Before our big drive to Brisbane. There is few and far between in Queensland and makes driving big distances a must to get anyway!

The tour round the distillery was pretty good and we learnt a lot about rum making! Bundaberg Rum originated because the local sugar mills had a problem with what to do with the waste molasses after the sugar was extracted (it was heavy, difficult to transport and the costs of converting it to stock feed were rarely worth the effort). Sugar men first began to think of the profits that could be made from distilling. Bundaberg rum was first produced in 1889, production ceased from 1907 to 1914 and from 1936 to 1939 after fires, the second of which caused rum from the factory to spill into the nearby Burnett River. We got shown round the whole of the factory and got to have a taste of their rum at the end. I'm not a huge fan of the rum, but Stu enjoyed it all!

We carried on our drive toward Brisbane and on our way in we spotted a outback steak house! That was our destination for dinner tonight! It was a pretty tasty meal and nice not having to cook or wash up!

KM's driven: 364KM

Total KM's driven: 1,723KM