Blogs from Lucinda, Queensland, Australia, Oceania

After driving back through Ingham and visiting the local charity shop (love op-shop shopping – but I miss doing it with you Nici!), we headed on to Lucinda (as recommended by the ladies in the op shop). This little seaside town, set in amongst all the sugarcane fields, is best known for the world’s longest bulk sugar-loading jetty. The jetty is actually 6km long, allowing enormous carrier ships to dock and be loaded up! There isn’t much else to see in Lucinda (aside from a cool little open-air gym next to the beach) so we didn’t stay long before heading on to Cardwell. We had stopped in Cardwell for fish & chips with Tracey and Jason a few weeks earlier as it lies at the half-way mark between Townsville and Mundoo Skydivers. It’s a quiet uncomplicated ... read more

We spent a lovely week at Cania Gorge where it was rather cool of a night time, reaching 3.8 degrees one night and not much more the rest of the time. They had a campfire going each night so we all got around that and had a few drinks and a couple of nights some of us placed dampers for everyone in it which was a great success. We also placed our potatoes and veggies in there a couple of nights, delicious. After Cania Gorge we ventured to Rockhampton where we stayed for 3 nights, nothing much here as we just did some shopping and washing to break the trip. After leaving Rockhampton we drove to Mackay for the day to have a new bike bracket fitted to the 5th Wheeler as the old one almost ... read more

The diving this weekend was a mixed bag, but definitely the best experience I've had at Pelorus. My first dive was quite tiring. My dive buddy and I, both experienced rescue divers, started out against the current. We went with a dive master nicknamed "biggles", and we were exploring a new site called "coral gardens". The site is aptly named since it is a relatively shallow expanse of branching coral, anemones, and sponges. It's one of the more diverse sites I've seen invertebrate wise. After about 30 minutes against the current, we changed directions and started going back towards the boat, but the current changed direction on us. So we got stuck paddling against a very strong current back to the boat. After 40 minutes at depth, my buddy and I were tired and low on ... read more