Wake at about 6:30 to the soothing rumbles of a damn truck, pumping out the septic tanks. Ah how’s the serenity?
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Day 15 – Forrest Beach to Murray Falls
27/09/2018
Wash – Rinse – Repeat, In other words a regular relaxed start to the morning. As we’re not in any hurry. Just as well, we were stopped a few times for roadworks on the Bruce highway.
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26/9/2018
Somehow the morning got away from us. We are up by 7:30, but we’ve decided to spend three nights getting to Cairns, then stay 4 nights in the Big 4 van park in Cairns. So we figure we need to get some supplies for the next three days. So even though the shops are in the next block it took ages to get there.
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Up, drop off the car, get the courtesy car to drop me at the radiology centre, x-ray done, and I’m back at the caravan park by about 9:30.
A day to get washing done and do a little more re-arranging of stuff in the van. Let the kids go for a swim to burn off some energy.
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About 3 hours of driving today, but as we are already booked in to a van park in Townsville, it doesn’t really matter what time we arrive, so we are in no rush.
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We’ve got two days to get to Townsville, so we can take the car in for its service on Tuesday morning. We’re aiming for Airlie beach today, which is only about an hour away, that will leave a 3 hr drive on Monday, but we don’t need to be there till late Monday.
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A relaxed and slow start to the day. We have planned to do the Sarina Sugar Shed tour at 11, and it is about an hour up the road, so no point in getting away too early. We make use of the shower, yes there is only 1, and pack and get ready to go. I must say for $10 this place was great to stay at.
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Day 9 – Emu Park to Flaggy Rock
Up at 5:45 to see the sunrise, Liam is up with me. We saw a few in NZ, but it was great to see it rise over the islands this morning.
Day 8 – Calliope River to Emu Park
The camp is surprisingly quiet given the number of people here. Up and have breakfast, and we pack up slowly.
A guy came over yesterday to check out the solar panels we have out, he had a similar set, and said his were starting to scuff were they folded, but as this was the first time ours had actually been used, they were still in good nick. We meet him on the bridge later that afternoon and he assured us there were no crocs in the river, he was probably right, but I noticed he didn’t go for a swim either. Anyway he popped over this morning to ask if we where headed in the direction of Rockhampton, as a matter of fact we are. He told us about the free Rockhampton Zoo, and specifically how they have a Saltwater and Freshwater croc, side by side.
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About 150km and 2hrs.
A slower start to today and we leave just after 9. We don’t plan on going too far, I’ve penciled in the Calliope River campground to test out our first free camping site. We arrive pretty early at 11:30 and decide we’ll pull up for lunch and work out if we will stay or if we’ll push on and find another campground further north.
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