Seabreeze Resort Hotel Mackay

... noch naeher dran war, als mir eh schon lieb war. Ich belasse jetzt den Rest eurer Fantasie, aber ich kann euch sagen, dass ich mich weeeiiit weggewuenscht habe... *brrrrr*

Endlich konnte ich das erzaehlen, das hat mich ja quasi innerlich aufgefressen. :) Keine Bange, ich hab davon keine Fotos gemacht, obwohl ich hätte quasi nur den Arm ausstrecken müssen und die Kamera einschalten *lol*

Bis bald!
LG Verena

... to waterfalls. We where able to leave our "kids" at Linda and Ian's place who have been friends for quite some time. After the long walk up the mountain we treated ourselves with lunch on the edge of the hill , here they jump of a ramp with a glider. Lunch was not the best but the view was spectacular and made up for it all.
It was great to hear that the dogs did not miss us at all and ...

... Sarina sits at the base of the Connors Range and although is inland you can travel 13 kms to the east for the beaches.  To the west are cattle properties and coal fields.  We were talking to a couple of the locals who told us that the sugar cane mill here is still operational but the sugar cane industry had not been going so well although ...

... combination Opal Mine and Candy Emporium, but make the reef a "must see". And the miscellaneous notes from the last week: · As part of our cyclone avoidance plan we rented a number of movies. We thought that an early James Bond movie might be tame enough for the kids [Dumb Thing #6]. It wasn't 10 minutes into the movie that Sean Connery firmly planted his hand on an attractive woman's behind just to say hello. Was there really a time that this ...

... we had some good banter about New Zealand, because Tessa had just got back from there and Sarah was going the following week, so we were mooning over our beloved NZ and recommending the best places to go for her. I think we basically talked about how much we loved New Zealand for a solid two hours, and eventually we just started laughing at ourselves and our own obsession. During all this, I am casually double checking all my plans for today ...

An epic 14 hour, 900km drive to Mackay today. Did have a couple of short breaks but I was totality exhausted when I settled down for a sleep this evening. The drive was really monotonous, not a lot to see along the way, that's why I just kept on driving. Airlie beach is now only 125km north after today's epic drive. I'll head into town early in the morning to book a trip to the Whitsunday islands and the Great Barrier Reef.

After we left 1770 Stace and I took it in turns to drive all the way upto Emmas house in Mackay... if you look at our map pins you can see just how far it was! It took us such a long time, we left at 10am and didn't arrive til gone 6! i drove in the morning and stace in the afternoon. At least its preparing us for our mammoth drive to ...

... And then came the floods. And the monsoons. And the cyclones. It has down nothing but rain since we've been here, declaring it a national disaster zone. We were getting over 4 inches/hour at sometimes. The town has been shut down, the water on the sidewalks was past our knees, and there were crocs spotted cruising the streets in town. And so we sit inside, in our 10x10 room, with no tv, no books, nothing to do but stare at the ...

... that there are so many lovely places like the ones we are finding. We much prefer this to a caravan park where you are lined up next to each other with no space around you. We choose a spot overlooking the water with a great view from our van and set up camp while the boys went played in the playground sliding their hotwheels cars up and down the slide. This morning I phoned the TJM's in Mackay this ...

... more gruelling parts of the trip - lunch with my parents at the airport. It seems since they have retired they now have endless time on their hands and also discounted trainfares. This will be one of 3 opportunities that I have to run into my parents with the other 2 being in Europe. Anyway not much really to report yet hopefully I can keep this interesting enough that you might check this once a week/month. Over and Out Mick