Blogs from Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia, Oceania

Today we are heading from Fraser Island. We are running a day behind as we can’t get a ferry until midday. We need to wait until about 10 to leave the campsite due to high tide plus it is a full moon. I had a restless sleep worrying about the torn ten dollar that I found in my wallet. I’m pretty sure the kid at the IGA gave it to me. The woman (4’9” (tall and wide) and black tights) at the bakery in Eurong wouldn’t take it. I spent most of the night worrying about how I’d get rid of it. We got the campsite packed up and decided to head a little early so we had to avoid a few waves as we headed in. Unfortunately it was the same woman behind the counter ... read more

The excitement of booking in that next adventure, (so close yet so far away, 102 days away to be exact!) always comes with a few teething problems. By teething problems of course I mean the massive money worry that instantly seems to loom over the happiness cloud of finalizing the next adventure. I'm not sure how many times I've written up budget sheets and planning sheets, breaking down my trip to the very last wire and penny to be spent. Yet every time without fail when it comes to crunch time, all my money seems to magically disappear and I have that fear of not being able to actually go on said adventure. My money freak out reminded me of the several million times (yeah maybe an exaggeration) I've been asked the question of how I ... read more

We're back following the tracks we made going north with a few diversions. While we were staying at Yeppoon, we had another visit to Emu Park. The boardwalk is now finished and we had a good close look at their nearby new war memorial. Along the boardwalk are plaques commemorating battles from the first World War and quite a few things are planned to be added to the walkway. A painting on glass of the landing on Gallipolli sits on the hill in front of the water, it's all very impressive and well done for the small town that Emu Park is. It's always hard/near impossible to get into Agnes Waters, but sometimes we can be squeezed into the caravan park at its twin town, 1770 - so named because Captain Cook visited in that year, ... read more

Hey All, I was so excited today as we were going to the Bundaberg Rum Distillery!!! To me this was one of the main reasons to come to Bundaberg, as its rum is so famous (well in Auz it is!!), they actually only export 3% of this rum to NZ and only 1% of this rum out to the rest of the world. Kieva drove us down to the distillery, it’s only a few km away, Kieva and Jeff gave us their membership cards to get cheaper entrance, this only worked if one of us paid and the other showed their card to get in for free. I paid and Vick pretended to be a 60-year-old lady, it worked like a charm lol. When filling in the paperwork she put her DOB as 1964 so I ... read more

We left Bundaberg before 10 am and headed straight out towards Gin-Gin to pick up the Bruce Highway. The first leg was into wind and so hard going but it all went quite easily from there. We passed through a small community, we think it was Bullyard, that had a local market on and Barry stopped. There weren’t many stalls but most had local produce, which was good. I wish I hadn’t paid top dollar for the vegetables in IGA yesterday! I bought some tomatoes, about 5 good sized ones, for $2; close to a kilo of baby Desiree potatoes, $1.20; a large Lebanese cucumber for 50c and some Tomato Relish for $2.50. They also had a few craft stalls and trash and treasure ones (mostly trash). One of the stalls had the most amazing woodwork ... read more