Comfort Inn The Rose Motel Mackay

... nearby Wedge Island (walk over at low tide). <br><br>The nearby mangroves were home to at least one croc - so the fishing was a bit more edgy than prior spots!<br><br>Our luck of attracting drunk, loud fellow campers continues......I went down and told the whole lot of them to shut up, always tricky having to be the fun stopper.

... on arrival at Mackay Showgrounds we phoned the manager to say that we were there, he politely told us that there is no camping any more. So we checked out a couple of caravan parks, one had low trees the other was full. A pub at Walkerston 11 km West of Mackay offered a camp at the back of the pub, but we couldn&#8217;t find the pub, so now we are beginning to get into trouble, it looked like we would be camping on the side of the road somewhere. We passed a guy ...

... walked along the beach a while enjoying the sights and sounds and fossicking around on the sand below the tide line. It was very relaxing after the stresses of the day before...<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><b r><br>Having said our good byes and checked out we headed for the airport again with a very pleasant taxi driver ...

Hi ya all. Just getting myself organised for the trip to Turkey by trying to sort out how to set up a tavel blog. Hopfully it will make for some interesting reading along the way as well as a personel record of our trip. Only 3 and a bit weeks before we take off. Starting to get excited about the trip and all the ...

... that tag game we played at the Temple of Artemis near Ephesus". I'm pretty sure she wouldn't have said this had we not gone on this trip; · And speaking of the trip, we have decided we are getting soft. The original itinerary had us going into mainland China for 7 days and then India for another 10 days. In a rare moment of advance planning, we noted that both our flights in and out of India were at 2am (from different cities 500 km apart), the ...

... tre Deux - if Steve turns out to be a snorer, it doesn't matter how nice he is, he's dead to me), so I'll just have to see him around the common room. Had an average tasting Chinese for dinner, but it wasn't licensed, so after I was suitably saturated with MSG, I decamped to the Ambassador Hotel, the only pub within walking distance of the hostel that had any atmosphere (they're apparently quite the homebodies in Mackay, because I passed three pubs ...

... yet) we went back to the room after dinner and guess what was on Tv - Crocodile Dundee 1 and 2 back to back. G was made up. We woke up (tres early) to a cloudy day, which changed our plans a bit. We had planned on taking a boat trip to Whitehaven Beach (on the main Whitsunday island) Its meant to be a must-see, stunning white sand etc, we didn't want to spoil it by going on a rainy day so we will just have to make another trip over before we go home ! (never mind :p)

... to take photos and in a couple of seconds he dived down again out of sight. Maybe 20 seconds later he surfaced again, still near the bank just a little further round and went on like this for a thrilling twenty minutes working his way round the shallower edges of the pool until the fading light got the better of us and he disappeared into the shadows. Seeing these strange but adorable creatures at such close proximity it is easy to see how they were intially ...

... Mackay, where we are currently. We've been in Mackay for about a week and a half now, and it's been interesting. We came here with the intentions of making it work and sticking it out, no matter what, as we both feel that sometimes we tend to run if things aren't going well. So, we decided to make it work. As we got off the bus, wandering the streets with our heavy packs, I tried to keep a positive mindframe. It was muggy and dirty and very ...

... north of Mackay. We consulted the must have travellers bible (as it is referred too) - 'Australia wide Camps 4 with Snaps' (ours has photos of most of the freebies or cheap camp spots). There were 4 places to choose from so we choose Seaforth as it is beachfront. There is also Cape Hillsborough Tourist Park, Cape Hillsborough National Park camping and also Ball Bay Camping. Seaforth is council owner and run and ...