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Rockhampton Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Rockhampton, Australia
On the Road
... we got to see duck-billed platypus in the wild. Weird little creatures that they are. Since then we've traveled down to Rockhampton and Gladstone. To be entirely honest there hasn't been a huge amount to see on route. We've been into a cultural centre ...
Happy Birthday Donna
... out the Capricorn Coast but it was nearly sunset, so there was not a lot to see and we were kind of rushing to get in to Rockhampton for dinner. As we were driving along, a car crossed over the road from a side street and almost wiped out the car in ...
Rockhampton Zoo and the snake!
Hi We went to the Rockhampton zoo and botanical gardens today. After waiting for a bus for ages we finally arrived at the zoo. Turned out quite a few bits of it were being renovated as the zoo had also been damaged in the January floods. The zoo was ...
Rancid Rockhampton
... girl travellers also. A few wierdos around and got a bit of abuse along the way from drunk people - we were loving Rockhampton!! Finally arrived at our hostel.... worst hostel in the world. Mozzie infested pit! Woke up to a pretty ...
We found the warmth!
... the coast as far as Townsville and then head inland back to the Northern Territory and turn left to head through Alice Springs and South Australia. It seems to be the right time to do it before the heat and the wet and hopefully we should be in ...
Watch ya head.....
A must do when you are in Rocky is The Caves, a nice morning learning about the limestone formation and for those that like adventure there are some tight tunnels to climb/roll through. Don't be scared when the lights are turned out. They have weddings ...
More Mileage
... to see in between the Whitsundays and Fraser Island and so it is a question of driving and driving and driving. We are in Rockhampton tonight having driven 475 km. We will have a similar mileage to do tomorrow before we are near Fraser Island. We tried ...
stopover!
Tues 21st Sept - We left Rockhampton at 9am - weather reports still not good but we headed on towards Hervey Bay for our trip out to Fraser Island. There wasn't much more rain and thankfully no more flooded roads and we arrived safely in Hervey Bay at 3pm ...
What we did day 2 (Markets/Heritage Village, Zoo)
Markets: The markets were at the historical village. First we looked around and saw some old fashion cars and went in a doll house which was full with old dolls, some were very expensive. next we had a rainbow snow cones. [YUM] Then we looked around ...
Rocky Rodeo
We left the outback and made our way to the big smoke, Rockhampton, or Rocky to the locals. We planned to spend the night here as it was 330km to the next big town, Mackay. We had also found out there was a rodeo on, and sure, as we are now pure blooded ...
Up & Away
Zoe took this great shot as we were leaving Rocky. A couple of long flights & 30 hrs or so later we made it to Jordan to hang out with Jo & ...
Rodeo in a pub and singing ships.
We were heading to Emerald area to do some fossicking for sapphires but took a wrong turn and ended up traveling towards Rockhampton. Instead of turning back we decided to keep going. We will do Emerald area another time, We will try to find some ...
Criterion Hotel Motel
... currently reside at 'The Cri'. The Criterion Hotel Rockhampton is renowned for its famous Steak House Family Restaurant and affordable Rockhampton Accommodation. Also this is a great venue to see bands and rodeos, Rob, Kenny and I went there to see ...
short stopover
we heading out of Airlie the next morning and ventured towards Rockhampton. Before reaching there, we stopped off at the Capricorn Caves, 23km south of Rocky. These caves were limestone caves, and as not much water gets into the cave (water table ...
Weiterreise in den Norden...
Für die bisherige Strecke hatten wir relative viel Zeit gebraucht und da im Norden so langsam die Regenzeit anfängt, dachten wir uns: Lass mal bisschen schneller machen. Und so sind wir ein paar Tage nur gefahren, natürlich immer wieder mit kurzen ...
Packing - it's way too hot in Rocky for cold feet!
Only two more sleeps until Billy and I set off for our wedding adventure in Italy! I have now officially finished work for the next six weeks and am now truly excited about the wonderful holiday we have planned. I still have lots to do before we board ...
Yeeeehaaaaaa
After hours of driving through the outback...we reached the middle of nowhere, and therefore Kroombit Cattle Station. It is a proper working cattle station, and the atmosphere is great - all of the staff (for lack of a better word) wear cowboy hats and ...
Rocking Rockhampton!
... , in the end we all went for a few beers later and had an awesome night. Anyway back to the facts, Rockhampton is the beef capital of Australia as it has over 40 million cattle and so every Friday night at this particular bar they have a rodeo. This ...
In search of sunshine
... the road, skipping the Town of 1770 too. We spent the whole day driving through the rain to get up to the beef capital, Rockhampton. We saw an alarming amount of roadkill en route: a rat, a possum, 2 wallabies, a kangaroo, an echidna and a ...
Rockhampton, stopover, 1 night
Got off the bus, got to the hostel, went for a meal, went to bed, got up in the morning and took the bus to Hervey Bay, that's it. ...
Forget the Rum
... who was the most accomplished and has bought himself a left handed model to impress unwitting guests when we get home. Left Rockhampton, crossing the line of the Tropic of Capricorn, without realising, and drove, without incident, to the greener sugar ...
Day #43: Second Stop.....Rockhampton
Part #3: Once we arrived in Rockhampton we stopped at the tourist information centre to get some maps, use the toilet and take some pictures. We got back in the camper van also known now as the yellow submarine thanks to Peter and I took the ...
East Coast Australia
... off in Townsville. We again can't remember what we did in this period as we were looking forward to the Whitsunday islands etc. Rockhampton is a fairly large town/city with lots to do, we spent awhile looking for crocs in the river...but didnt come across ...
Not much going here except heat and Bats!!!
... town of Bundaberg is pretty cool with lots of old buildings and parkland running down the center of town. The drive from here to Rockhampton is the most boring stretch we have done to date and we go through many rain squalls and can now see the effects ...
4WD safari on Fraser Island
Fraser Island is the world's largest sand island covering an area of 120km by 15km. The island is of ecological importance and is therefore world heritage listed. The only way to explore the island is by 4 wheel drive safaris, so I join a group of 10 ...