Best Western Windmill Motel Mackay

... back at the General, he stated that the ships waiting off shore are not held up by the logistics of loading large quantities of coal, but by the process of clearing large sums of money before the Queensland Government will load up the ships. So basically all the ships out there are waiting for the banking system. So at $300 a tonne of coal, each train carries 9500 tonnes and 4 trains per ship, which roughly equates to $11.4 million per ship give or take a beer or ...

... come home from work and wearing her shoes and clip on earrings. Not sure if I have mentioned Lucy's desire to have her ears pierced since we have been away. I have told her she can as long as she understands that it gets done with two guns with needles in them. When we get to that part she changes her mind ...<br><br>We caught up with Jack and Liz on Saturday and went to their house for dinner on Sunday (after Lucy ...

... me away this late into the evening... Turns out that Mackay is pretty busy in the week til Thursday as people fly in to there to then go on to the mines in the area. <br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br ><br>The woman at reception was very nice and chatted with us for a while . Turned out she had lived for some years ...

The Australian trip begins and we have said bye for now to our family and friends. I have to say that it doesn't feel like we are really going for such a long time but as we drive along right now my daughter is somewhat 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 Mackay

... Park. The nature walk here included going to a really neat cylindrical crater that was formed by gas exploding out of the earth's core. [Editors note: kudos to Kevin for using the word gas without referring to a bodily function...shows hope for him reaching some level of maturity someday!]; · In a social experiment, we let the kids play their Nintendos for the last part of a drive to our holiday park. When we reached the cabin, Tracy and I left the ...

... massive bollock as to have scheduled myself a solid ten hours of driving. That means if I set off at 10am, checkout, as I usually do, I won't arrive until 8pm. That is so not an option. I check and recheck the map, scouring it for some kind of magical shortcut (although apart from a wormhole, it's seeming increasingly unlikely that I'm going to find one), when all of a sudden, my eye falls upon a town name. Marlborough. I've heard that before, I think ...

... we were on the other resort we could have a wander about. There were a few signs in small areas saying 'guests only past this point' but we had a nose anyway - it was only their private beach with hammocks, beach chairs which looked more comfortable that most sofa's and just general amazingness. That's the only way I can describe it :P as I said, we probably weren't meant to be there, but we didn't actually see anyone else while we were walking about, only the 2 ...

... and we gasped when we saw...a river turtle doing a very convincing impression of a platypus but not quite fulfilling our dream. An anticipation filled 15 minutes scanning the waters surface with our binoculars turned up many turtle fuelled false alarms but no platypuses so we quietly edged our way along the river to the bridge and after a short while we were rewarded with our first glimpse of one of these fascinating animals. He was hungry, and had clearly found ...

... by the realization of how minute they really are. Does any of it really matter? We often get so caught up in our little worlds and forget the reasons our souls are here: to experience. After taking a few groups out on the boat and having an amazing experience, I decided to quit the job. What seemed like a dream job with many benefits ended up having more of a negative impact. Essentially, the tourist boats are party boats, and I was ...

... Which was a big day in Mackay despite the fact all the horses have been struck down with the flu and there was no actual races. It was still a great day with Fashions in the field contest and some betting on the Caulfield cup and Ascot. This weekend we went up to Airlie beach with one of our house mates Kirstie. On Saturday we wet Ocean Rafting around the Whitsunday Islands. The weather was beautiful and the scenery spectacular as our raft scooted us around the ...