Bowen queen beach caravan park, beautiful clean park, great facilities and staff very accommodating. Bowen grows almost a third of Australia's fruit and veg being a huge food basin makes it an inviting spot itself. Exploring Bowen with the thought of returning for a longer stay as it has beautiful and sheltered beaches, supposly very good fishing, walking tracks and great fresh fish that we sampled for dinner. The granite rock and boulders around the white beache...

Staying at Jolimont caravan park, nice quiet park with pool and good facilities about 50 km North of Mackay. Double day of school to have Wednesday off and head to Mackay. Wednesday drove to Seaforth a nice seaside town. As we drove into town we saw a huge beautiful 5m+ python crossing the road so as usual Fidge wanted a photo so we stopped. It's body was as wide as a plumbing pipe and had defined brown and light brown patterns. Unfortunately the photo didn't hap...

We were all very happy for the weekend to arrive this fortnight was a bit of a battle with school for all of us. We arrived at Calliope River free parking along with at least another 60 other grey nomad caravans to stay 3 nights. Saturday we headed straight into Gladstone where we spent the day soaking up the harbour and mining life, reminiscing about the old mining town similarities. Lunch at Spinnaker Park confirming this with customer service not the priorit...

Our first blow out and thats not a blow out with food as we have had plenty of them!! This was a true blow out with one of the bus tyres. What a noise it sounded like it was coming through the bus wall. Lotte and Archie got a fright but soon calmed down when we explained what had happened. How would it be that we were right next to some roadworks and when we asked for some local tyre suppliers we were given a mob number that we promptly rang? Mitchell's tyres an...

Staying at Rocky Creek Scout Camp, looking forward to having some jamboree and coombyar and chewing on some damper (we are able to have an open fire). We were lucky enough to be on the generous end of a gentleman who was picking strawberries at a local farm and he gave us 2 punnets on seperste occasions. These strawberries we must say were some of the best we have ever eaten. Big call coming from Tas but they were almost cruchy but so very juicy, tasty, red and h...