Broken River Mountain Resort Mackay

... 8217;s history and the site of the movie set was basically a barren unused water front. However, the scenery and the water views around Bowen are magnificent. <br> <br>Thursday, 19 th<br>Time to leave sunny Bowen, satellite dish stowed, beer stacked in the fridge, the cock pit readied and the box seat occupied. Just a short hop to Proserpine for an overnighter revisited.<br><br>More instalments next week, promise

... or four seasons from one plant so there are also many fields which have been ploughed and replanted with new stock. Now and then there is a sugar processing plant looking remarkably like the sugar beet factories in East Anglia and belching the same great plume of steam into the sky The sugar plantations and the Bruce Highway are squeezed between the mountainous coastal ranges and the impressive Great Dividing Range whose massive mountains, lavender in the ...

So the first few weeks of this adventure were coming to an end. It was almost as if they put on a party to celebrate the end of an incredible time last night on Hamilton Island....in the end I guess all it did was give me a sore head to help make the Sunday rush a memorable one. <br><br>Up early to do a quick pack and tidy up, load up the golf buggy, say a few goodbyes, then with the help of Alan, our faithful shore crew and ...

... ripen and colour. The pickers will go through one area and pick all the ripe strawberries and then 2 days later they will go back through that same area and pick the next crop that has ripened.<br><br>Since we have been on the farm, we have being doing some local sight-seeing along with a 2 day trip back to Tasmania to celebrate my sister, Vicki's 50th birthday. We drove to Brisbane and flew to Hobart, TAS. Michelle (Vicki's ...

... it was very cloudy, and that confuses them a bit into thinking it's dusk or dawn, so there were a few swimming about! We also walked some short hiking trails (some of them VERY short) in the area. The landscape changed very quickly from rainforest to fields. Little car taking up about half of the parking spot. On the way back we stopped in Mackay, which had some pretty architecture: Mackay

... was that plane hot, oppressive...and there was djd not taking his ********** for fear of losing the passport...this I might add is something you need to remember......he was worried about losing the passports!!<br><br>We stayed at Ocean International in Mackay and we had a most wonderful welcome from the Lee Anne at reception ...

... fate choose for us and we said we'd go for it for the big day. What better place to wake up at than there!?! Anyway, so thats why we have come here as it is the nearest place to spend a few days. To get here you drive up the Pioneer Valley where there are field upon fields of cane crops ten foot high. The journey just below Eungella accends rapidly and becomes very steep. At the top you arrive amongst the clouds and oh boy were there clouds. The first day we arrived it ...

... and obediently did not leave it again, since the vengeance of the National Park system is apparently swift and terrible. Not five minutes later, though, whilst taking a picture of a lizard that ran out in front of me (I managed to stop dead and get my camera open without freaking it out), I realised that the quiet, disembodied and slightly eerie voice I'd been hearing for some time was not in fact the ghosts of the forest, but instead the warning on ...

... at home (at least not at our home). Cairns also had the nearby Cape Tribulation, an amazing area of land where the rainforest effectively grows right to the ocean. Besides the natural beauty of this area, Cape Tribulation also offered up the following: · One of the longest and fastest rivers we had to drive through. Water flowing across the road is quite common once you get off the beaten track in Australia. The "Caution: Fast Flowing Water" sign was ...

... and wine paid off and we had a fantastic meal. That day we had also done the most driving (900 km in 13 hours) and we deserved the gourmet meal when we finally arrived in Eungella National Park at 9.30pm. Eungella is the best place in Australia to see platypus in the wild and we couldn't let a chance like that pass us - so Julien drove and drove, to be ready for platypuses the next morning. We didn't think we'd actually get lucky enough to see platypus, one of the ...