Marie arrives....

En-route from Darwin, stopping off to spend 5 days with us, before she flies back to NZ.

If you look closely you will see "Julia".

We are camping at a Tourist Park caravan park at Kinka Beach, sth of Yeppoon, 35 minutes from Rockhampton, on the coast. KB is not far from Emu Park and Keppel Island is out there somewhere.

We met someone who removed the shell from this dead turtle at Kinka Beach. The lady was going to cure the shell by letting the ants eat the flesh that was still sticking to the shell. When we saw the turtle it stank....

Emu Park is famous for the 'singing ship' - a sculpture made from halyards that 'sings' when it is very windy.

 We have found the Queensland Coast is not ‘free’ camping friendly. Yes, there are ‘free’ camps, but limited to 20-48 hours!. After spending as long as we liked in central/inland Queensland, we are needing to plan our travels a bit more thoroughly, rather than moving when we felt like it.

There is nothing much here, the beach is certainly not as nice as Mission Beach. The tide goes out a long way and it is a bit more sludgey to walk on. A small swimming pool keeps us cool, as we try out our new togs…

But Marie is with us and we are having a good catch up, plenty of shopping, swimming in the pool, card playing etc.



Japanese platter for lunch

It has been a  Mission Beach Reunion – Lynn and Dave, John and ‘Pat thedog’, and Linda and John from the UK, who are touring Australia on his Honda Goldwing 1500cc bike-they shipped it over here.

Sometime this week – early November, we will head south-not sure where.