Country Info
- Canberra
- Capital
- Australian dollar (AUD)
- Currency
- 19,357,594
- Population
- AU
- Country Code
Mackay Slideshow
Mackay
Travel Blogs from Mackay, Australia
Paradise Found. Definitely on our Favourites List!
... we found an awesome place! We are at Smalleys Beach which is within Cape Hillsborough National Park, just north of Mackay, just south of a place called Seaforth. We have an amazing campsite this time – one of only 11 beachfront ...
A Witch Called Wanda
Midnight, an unlit backstreet in Mackay. A fork of lightening tears the black sky to shreds, momentarily illuminating a tatty sign suspended with rusty chains, swaying and squeaking in a menacing breeze, where peeling, red paint spells: Larakin Lodge. One ...
Disaster zone.
... and locals. We ended up staying here for two days until the roads cleared. It's just bad luck that we happened to come to Australia during their worst rain and monsoons for 95 years. With the company of Adam and Liz though we tried to make the best of it ...
Recharge in Mackay
Hey, We decided to do the next stop at mackay, a smallish town with not much to see really so we decided to stop out of town near the Kenchant Dam. We ended up at a caravan site right on the dam and it was amazing. Really beautiful. We were right on ...
After a Week of Volunteering
... this post isn't screamingly interesting. BTW, I saw my first wallabies this week, and the birds are beautiful! Links: Click here to jump to more info on Conservation Volunteers Australia Click here to jump to more info on the Mission Beach ...
The Borrowed Life
I've drifted up Australia’s east coast for three months now, hopping from hostel to hostel like a flea switching dogs, so thought I should note a few things about the peculiar life I’ve found myself immersed in. In between typing the words of ...
Tourist
... mark from the shallow bank into the water. Ah yes, the crocs... How foolish of me to think I could take a stroll in Australia without gambling my life. After that I stuck to the things recommended by the tourism office. Mackay Marina. There’s a lot ...
Home Sweet Home
... waterfalls flowing off it and the colour changes of the rock is incredible. Snorkelling in Ningaloo Reef in WA, The Great Australian Bite South Australia, actually there is to many. We have now been back for a few months and wish we were back on the road. ...
THE JOURNEY BEGINS FOR US ......FINALLY!!!!!!!!!
... sad and will miss her family. The other daughter just thinks we are on a camping trip and is a bit oblivious to the road ahead of us. We are hoping to get to our next destination before dark and will reveal that another day..it is 260klms from ...
High on Mackay
... Pacific. Vast sugar plantations cradle the town to the south and west, and beyond the swathes of green, the purple crests of Mackay's Highlands smudge the horizon. Anyone who read my post called A Witch Called Wanda may remember I was staying in a place ...
weiter runter die Eastcoast
Joar, nach dem ganzen trockenen Staub haben wir uns erstmal ins Meer gestürzt :) Waren 3 Tage über 2 Nächte segeln, kreuz und quer durch die Whitsundays - supergeil! Leider kaum Wind, dafür sind wir aber knackebraun geworden *g* Schnorcheln am ...
Passing time with the platypuses
... Beach, hoping to make it to the north side of Rockhampton, was no exception. About an hour into the drive the ABC (Australia Broadcasting Company) top-of-the-hour news chimed and as more updates on isolated towns and death tolls rolled in so too did the ...
Back on the road
... are clearing $2000 a week, they typically work 4 days on 4 days off. Unfortunately some of them are drinking a lot of it.. Australia has so much work right now, they are crying out for skilled people and really trying to encourage young aussies to get ...
In a field in Mackay
I was crouched in a field in Mackay, double-knotting my shoelaces so tightly my knuckles were turning white, when I suddenly realised walking home in socks was the least of my worries. If I walked home in a frilly pink dress and cowboy boots it would be a ...
Mackay
... ! We had to wait for Mackay to eat and I was starving! As its Sunday everything and I mean EVERYTHING was closed in Mackay! Just a local thing but pretty inconveniant for us. We walked the deserted streets and roared with delight when we saw a pub was ...
Long Drives and MacKay.
... 11pm that night. So we decided to stop off at a town earlier called McKay and spend the night. We used our Let's Go Australia book to find a cheap bedding for the night and set up reservations. We arrived in MacKay around 9:30pm and we were all ...
Mackay...........just a pit stop
After leaving Mackay we intended to stay in Rockhampton for the night, but having knocked some of the chore off the journey last night we decided to head on further, to Gladstone. The big rush was we needed to be in Hervey Bay by 2pm tomorrow to go to ...
The Grind
... won't be doing it for too long, and it's kind of nice to have some routine and purpose. About Mackaÿ: Mackay is on the eastern coast of Australia and is the southern boundary of the Great Barrier Reef. It's just a small country town, where ...
Flooded Out
... . Then, I went to sleep. Remember that rain I was talking about before? You may have thought, "Hey, isn't Australia constantly in drought?" Any other year, for the past 50 years or so, you would have been right. But, this ...
Nice parrots, quiet town
... and weather report, it should be way past the end of the 'wet' season, so what could possibly go wrong... MacKay is the Stanstead of Australia. It didn't appear that there has ever been a lot here except mines the size of Wales and rustling oceans of ...
Sunshine Coast
... tour guides have a tendency to exaggerate. But it's worth the time and is not far off the route. By early evening we were in MacKay at motel with efficiency suites just off the beach. [21 09.898S 149 11.739E] Dec. 31, 2006 Denise and Stuart meet us ...
Mackay
Back in Mackay - we made it! We chugged out of LPG and somehow our fuel just allowed us to chug into the petrol station before runing out phew! Now we are netting it, maybe grabbing a pizza and then going to the beach to take up the rest of the day - ...
Mackay
After having a couple of days back in Surfers I flew to Mackay. Mackay is another fairly small town. I went on a trip to Eungella National Park it was really good, we walked through the rainforest to Finch Hatton Gorge a beatutiful waterfall, had a swim ...
Where did you sleep last night?!
... spent the night in the most random place yet, the cinema car park!! Somehow that day was topped by Saturday and our journey to Mackay. Twice the size of Rockhampton and a Saturday night how could we lose?! We did!! The town was as quiet as Rockhampton, ...
All Hands On Deck
Woke up at 7 and was surprised to find myself ready even before Liz, she's normally an hour early for everything just to be on the safe side. Wandered down to the Marina where the baby was mooring and had time for a quick brew before boarding. Cracked ...
Mackay
... Proserpine and after a brief visit to the bank we headed off through sugar cane country. We stopped for lunch about 50kms north of Mackay and Dianne received news from Ange that a friend of ours, Noel, had passed away last night which is not unexpected - ...
Mackay
Die nächste Station ist Mackay, wo wieder einmal die Vorräte aufgefüllt werden. Mackay ist eine typische Kleinstadt. Eigentlich ein schönes Dorf mit hübschen Häuschen mit großem Garten und schönen Grünanlagen dazwischen. Hier gibt es auch schon ...
Camilla Beach/Mackay
... exactly what we have been looking for!!!!) Now we are in Mackay. We walked into town today and experienced our first bus ride in Australia.(if you give them a bill they'll give you change!!! AND every stop is a different price! ) It is a really quaint ...