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Oceania » Australia » Queensland » St Lawrence August 6th 2012

A trip to the shopping centre started our day followed by a peaceful breakfast at a local lagoon in Bowen.We then decided to take a small detour and visit Airle Beach. The landscape changed yet again on the drive in and the lush wet tropics greeted us as we arrived. On first glance Airle appeared to be a scaled down version of Port Douglas but its charm is its relaxed vibe and slow pace. A beautiful spot with mountains to one side and a glistening bay to the other. It had a ripper book store on the main drag and also excellent facilities including free showers for those taking a dip in a man made gem of a pool right on the beach. Back on the main road heading south we drove into Mackay around lunchtime. ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » St Lawrence October 7th 2011

We have finally hit the road after spending time at Rob & Tracy's in Gladstone to make a carrier for the outboard motor that fits on the back of the van. Our first stop on the road was an overnight at Yaamba about 30klms north of Rockhampton.Not a bad spot but very close to the road so very noisy,toilets were good & for $2 you can get a shower at the servo across the road. Also handy for thr Royal Oak Hotel next door which does counter meals & very reasonably priced drinks.We then moved on to St Lawrence to wait for the delivery of our satellite dish set top box which had to go back to the distributer to get an upgrade as it was still set for europe & would only work here if ... read more
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Outboard on back of van

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » St Lawrence March 26th 2011

We woke up bright and early to the noise of dogs barking and chickens buuuuuuuuucking - since we were on a farmers land we thought it was best to make a sharp exit! We had in mind to go to this little beauty of a spot called St Lawrence where there is a large free camping reserve. After heading down the highway for another three hours we finally arrived at our destination and right away we really liked it as it seemed pretty secluded and ‘outbackish’ (but also had hot showers for $1!!). Since it was a sunny Saturday ‘avo’, as the locals say, we spent the day as typical Aussies sparking up a barbie and cracking open some cans of Gold Victoria Bitter. Now this really is the life! After having a fair dinkum time ... read more
On the road to Rockhampton!
Camped up in the outback!
This is the life!

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » St Lawrence May 9th 2010

Day 30 Today wasn’t much of a very exciting day… we woke up early to notice that they had the markets already set up at 6:00 am! So we took a nice walk around after we packed up camp and then headed out to find our next camp site, which would be closer to the Whitsundays which would be our next big stop. We drove for about 500 km’s which is an extremely long drive with 5 ppl and all our stuff in our little pajero. Finally we arrived at St. Lawerence at around 9 pm, set up camp and had dinner and then off to bed we went! Day 31 Today we woke up early once again, to find out that we had to moved our tents right away considering we were set up in ... read more
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Oceania » Australia » Queensland » St Lawrence November 6th 2009

DAY 364 An awful nights sleep, with continual scratching at the early part, I am sure whatever has been biting is still in here despite the copious amounts of Mortein sprayed earlier, I had to get out of bed and take one of these allergy tablets that seem to be doing little to help, oh and a generous helping of calamine lotion once again, I got back into bed and wrapped myself in the sheet and blanket, I am convinced it is in the sleeping bag, I even wore my fleece as it was a cold night. Dogs barked pretty much all night and there was this one cow in particular that had a very deep and meaningful mooooo that bellowed out into the darkness. The Wallaby wanderers were in this area back around June time, ... read more
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Old Homestead
Eungella NP




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