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We made sure we were up early to catch the sunrise this morning. It was beautiful and we took many photos at each stage. The beach is so calm early in the morning, especially near high tide. The hire cars aren’t allowed on the beach 2hrs either side of high tide. This morning high tide was supposed to be 10.50am, obviously people weren’t up and about before 9am - except for a few fishermen to travel along the beach, so we had it mainly to ourselves. Alex asked for the shovel to dig and Rod ended up digging his own hole, then Alex watched whilst Rod buried his legs. They then progressed to the water line. I watched for traffic, and called out when there was a car. The soft sand was hard work as the ... read more

Got up, had breakfast and headed down to check out what campsite we would move to. Our original site is available, so we left a chair to hold the site and headed back to Central Station to pack up and move the camper. There is usually someone stuck on a track all the time, and this time was no different. Luckily we had followed a group of 3 travelling from NSW who were also going to beach camp and as they had no trailer, pulled the car out. Continued on and parked the camper. All was good until as I went to sweep the steps, noticed we had lost a leg for the steps somewhere between the beach and our last camp - 25minutes drive away. Used a block of wood and Rod will design a ... read more

Left camp and headed for Eurong and saw a big yellow tractor (the Caterpillar brand) on the road. When there was a pull-off at the side of the road he let us get past him. Along the beach and checked out the campsite at One Tree Rocks - still empty. We just can’t give up the toilets and showers yet! Along further to Cornwells Break Road and came across a stuck Suzuki on the track. The French guys we rescued the other day were helping to dig them out. Matthew & Victor are their names. They are both unit students, one in medicine and the other engeering. Suzuki gave up on the track and went back to the beach, we kept on and made sure the French guys got up. They were headed to Lake McKenzie ... read more

Did the Southern Lakes scenic drive and stopped to look at Lake Birrabeen and Boomanjin. A Nissan had pulled to the side of the track to let someone past and slid off into the scrub. A 4WD hire car, full of backpackers had stopped to try to assist him when we turned up. Not having much luck. Rod said we could winch him out if they couldn’t “snatch” him out. They kept on trying and Rod stood back and watched. Finally I got him talking and he said there were too many cooks for him to interfere. I explained to the French tourists that were stuck to manouvere their car at right angles to the track and to try and to have a go at getting up themselves. When I explained why (translating from Rod’s murmurs), ... read more

Rod and the kids had a swim in the heated pool at Proserpine, right next to the caravan park, while I uploaded the travelblogs and recharged the computer at the camp kitchen. Drove out to Dingo Beach, a little secluded beach town with its own stinger net for swimming in the summer. On the way to Airlie Beach, we drove through Cannonvale, well it is positively huge compared to Proserpine. It has 2 shopping complexes and it’s own industrial area, as well as a beach. At Airlie Beach we found a park for the car and camper (no easy feat) and wandered around the shops. Kate & I got a headband each, Kate a vase and Alex his hatpin. Down towards Mackay and turned off at Marian, through Finch Hatton (a cute little town) to Eungella. ... read more