Illawong Beach Resort Mackay

... time with in Darwin, and of course they remembered Jacob.<br><br>Mackay is growing quite rapidly as the urban sprawl devours the cane fields, but you can&#8217;t help thinking about the next storm surge in this area and what it has done in the past. We were expecting to see a lot of high rise buildings, but that wasn&#8217;t the case. We were surprised by how beautiful the beaches are, we had no idea they would be so nice.<br><br>We drove into town the next day to check out the ...

... br>Wayne and Gill joined us for a swim in the beach before a BBQ dinner at our van, courtesy of the meat tray from the TAB at Airlie Beach! <br><br>A &#8220;Juicy Tarago&#8221; (the East Coast &#8220;Wicked Van&#8221; equivalent &#8211;sans the cutting edge graffiti) pulled in beside us for the night which eased my nerves a little, safety in numbers&#8230;<br><br>Maegan&#8217;s birthday on Monday saw Greg and Max leave the van early for their usual walk. Maegs and I ...

... the way to Brisbane where we stopped at garage for petrol and to buy a map.The maps this garage had were extensive...all but a simple map of Brisbane to get a lost tourist about. Oh no we would have had to buy a map book the size of a large dictionary to be able to find a way around. So that left us with our very unhelpful ...

... sexy in that Latina way all the same. She and I just had a brief conversation on the subject of a mutual disapproval of snoring, so all that's left is Mr Quiet - hope he's a good boy. Other than a fairly decent night's sleep, however, today was just one of those days. I woke up at about 7.20, and couldn't get back to sleep because those four tiny skylights are like glaring spotlights first thing in the morning, and I couldn't be bothered to go ...

... s the pay off for the central location), is probably the nicest hostel I've been in - not too big, not too small, with a huge deck upstairs for smoking and drinking, a gigantic TV/pool room downstairs with three big squashy sofas and an armchair, a common room upstairs with two more sofas for chilling and reading, a big kitchen with all the usual mod cons and several benches and picnic tables, and a variety of rooms, in which even the dorms have big ...

We didn't really want to leave our Airlie Beach site this morning as we have enjoyed acting like kids, however, we need to keep to some sort of schedule so that we make it to Sydney for the 23rd. We set off a bit later this morning to make sure all alcohol was out the system and headed off for Mackay. We found a van park near town called Central Tourist Park. It looks like it's run by drug addicts and drunks, but it ...

... bendy. When we evetnually got to the top the views were amazing looking down the valley. At the top there were loads of Brush Turkeys which Cat did not enjoy one little bit. They took a liking to our lunch! Unfortunately for her they are all over Queensland we have found out over the past few weeks! They are really ugly big ...

... of hours! Us girls just sunbathed for most of the afternoon (whilst drinking of course) then we made some dinner and started getting ready to go out! We had such a great time, Mackay isn't exactly a great place but i think we made a good night of it - it was good enough for me and stace not to leave Emmas until 3pm on sunday anyway!!

... storms and floods over the weekend. After departing Hervey Bay we found the road flooded in several areas, but we were still able to cross. In one case, we got stuck (don't worry, I didn't stress-out the driver, I merely gave several quiet gasps and clung to my safety belt) but Ryan's clever manoeuvring got us through... needless to say, that section of the road was closed shortly after we crossed. Travelling further North it was raining all the way and it was very ...

... fibrous material (bagasse) is used as fuel which runs the entire mill and any excess power that they produce is sold back to the power company. Juice from the crushing stage contains impurities which are removed by adding lime and boiling the limed juice. The lime neutralizes acids and precipitates impurities, which settle out in a large vessel called clarifiers. Clear juice runs off from the top of each ...