Castle Court Motor Inn Rockhampton

... left Boulder Creek and decided to continue on our travels overnighting at a servo in Sarina. The next day saw a mileage record broken by us. After 4 hours driving and 322 kms, we arrived at Yeppoon, only to find the council had closed the overnight camp spot.

So we camped illegally for one night and moved onto a CP at Emu Park. Recently we have found that free campsites are becoming more and more scarce ...

... Highlight des Tages war das Kaenguru, das direkt vor uns ueber die Strasse gehuepft ist. Und man konnte unterwegs immer wieder kleinere Buschfeuer (das ist Definitionssache - in Deutschland wuerden die 'kleineren' Buschfeuer einen Grosseinsatz ausloesen) gesehen.

Unser Hotel in Rockhampton ist ganz nett - im Erdgeschoss ist ein sehr gemuetlicher Irish Pub, der Potential haette, meine Stammkneipe zxu werden ...

... and did not really match up to the glossy pictures that accompanied all the property adverts. It’s not that the place was scruffy, dirty or anything like that; nowhere in Australia seems to be ever anything other than crisp and clean. It’s just that it seemed a bit gauche and perhaps trying a bit too hard to be what it doesn’t appear to be.

We stopped off at the visitors’ information centre and got rather long ...

... the ubiquitous bungalow is the favoured building style now especially with the big builders, I am pleased to see that there are still many individual homes built in the old style using more modern materials.

From the river I spent a short time at the old raiway station which is now awell presented railway museum, and took a ride on an old steam tram. Then on to the Botanical gardens for a fleeting visit, they looked very pleasant and green but it was too hot to spend ...

Nach ausgiebigem Feiern auf den Whitsundays und in Airlie Beach ging es wieder der Kueste entlang auf dem Bruce Highway Richtung Sueden. Die Nacht verbrachten wir auf einer wunderschoen gelegenen Overnight Rest Area direkt am Strand. Das einzige Problem an der Location war wie der Name Sandy Beach schon sagt, der Sand. Es stellte sich sehr schnell heraus das ein Toyota Hiace Camper nicht fuer diesen Untergrund optimiert wurde. Mit Hilfe von anderen Campern ...

... which zig-zagged for 15 metres or so and
had to maneuver buy feeling our way out with our headlights off. This
was the end of an exhausting 2 hour tour which we thoroughly enjoyed.



We checked our bags in and went to see
our room and then it was off our for another scenic tour in the
car....100+km tour. We Started of at Mount Archer, which we have told
has some spectacular views of Rockhampton and the surrounding area.
We drove up to the summit ...

... city. Even though its very dry around this aea the pictures we took are still very nice as you can see. Climbing this mountain was not that easy because of all the loose rocks on the paths and certain paths where very steep. We did make it down savely in one piece. After the walk we picked up Kay from Rockhampton where she was waiting for us so she could follow us to our bus . Kay is an old ...

... House Mountains to a bush site. We got a welcome to Queensland at 4am when we heard some utter Bogans (country inbred chavs) having a massive blue (barney, bust up) after eleventy-eight bottles of 4X. Idiots. We stopped by stunning Noosa beach and NP for the day which was glorious and happened to be filled with a disproportionate amount of young ladies in bikinis. A couple more days of beaches and relaxing follwed up to Agnes Water where we decided it was a good chance ...

... heal (nice). She set off into town to get something to eat but we later found out that on the way she met a guy who she'd bumped into earlier in her trip and he took her for a beer. She hadn't eaten since 8am that morning so needless to say when we saw her in the bar later at 8pm she was pretty much three sheets to the wind. We ended up playing pool with Malin, Croc Dundee, Nick and Custard apple man. Nick was swearing like a ...

... profrcet az do Airlie Beach a moc nezastavovat. Jednou dokonce prestalo na chvili prset, takze jsme stihli navstivit snad uplne nejtrapnejsi turistickou atrakci v Australii, zvanou Zahadne kratery (Mystery Craters)! Je to jakoby u nekoho na zahrade, kratery jsou samy o sobe docela zajimave, ale prezentace jejich puvodu je jeden velky kyc, pry nikdo nevi, jak vznikly, tak se kolem nich nashromazdilo spousta mytu atd., no vazne hruza, vsechno jsme to vyfotili ...