Monday, 26th February 2018
This morning we woke up to a very beautiful sky – I was hoping to see sunrise but that was lost in the clouds but still it all seemed peaceful. The tide was out on the beach so it was a long stretch – I tried looking for any signs that turtles had either come ashore to lay their eggs or little turtles that had hatched had run down towards the horizon – but alas that phenomena did not take place!
After breakfast we were on our way again,; we did not stop to go through Yeppoon but we did go to the Shipwreck Point were a great number of ships in the late 1800’s had gone missing. Also interesting to note the this was Aboriginal land long before the settlers came here and of course they did resist the european settlers.
Finally on our way and on the A1 highway we came across bizarre landscapes – just like in Vietnam and Cuba, we saw these round mounds of limestone rock in flat land – these rocks were formed due to volcanic action millions of years ago but I still need to find out more about the area.
On our last leg of our drive after having filled up the van with diesel and had lunch at Carmile, we still had some 90 km to Mackay. This time we programmed a campsite some 16 km north of Mackay and directly on the beach front which meant we did not get to see Mackay today. Anyway it was near 5 pm and most camp site offices close round about that time. We were just in time to reach a small part of paradise and we celebrated that with a bottle of bubbly whilst listening to various birds chirping and screeching away. We have enough to explore tomorrow!!
And by the way – we had a scorcher today! 24 degrees and although sometimes somewhat cloudy and a little bit of showers on the way, the day was sunny most of the time!! let’s keep fingers crossed that tomorrow is the same………
