Seabreeze Resort Hotel Mackay

... br>True to her sign Susanne escorted ME back to car before she even saw the kids. Telling me she was expecting a busload of tourists any minute &#8211; BALDERDASH! I wasn&#8217;t beautifully presented that day just in shorts and t-shirt and I had showered that morning. <br><br>Wayne was as ropeable as I, he wanted to turn her roadside advertising A frame around to &#8220;closed&#8221;. I was reliving the disgusting behaviour we&#8217;d received back at Mt Barker. Some ...

... we stopped in Rockhampton at Clarke Rubber and whilst I was inside, a Dutch woman our age crossed 4 lanes of traffic to take a photo of Rocky. She was travelling around in a wicked camper with her fiance and thought the Kombi was smoken! Chris took much pride in showing her the interior, introducing the puppies and even showing her some resto photos. The man from Boyne Island Caravan Park was now very very far in the back of our minds ...

... br>We had, one lens bag, 2 cameras, one backpack, one laptop bag &#8211; the combined weight being closer to 15kgs!!!<br><br><br>That was enough to bring djd out in a sweat &#8211; me I&#8217;m not so worried about getting on the plane as I am with coping to reassure djd that we would be ok.....I mean they would have to stop ...

... Back in Rainbow Beach, the tide came in unexpectedly when I was coming back from the coloured sands and I had to clamber over a bunch of rocks to try and stay dry. I didn't slip once, although I did end up with water swirling around my knees at one point when I ran out of step-upon-able rocks. (The important thing is my bag stayed dry. Leggings can be washed; passports, cameras, iPods and phones, less so.) Now, when the worst that could happen was not a ...

... disease around Cairns. It was their worst outbreak since WWII, and based on the papers had reached epidemic status. You would have thought that the collective 30 shots we had at the clinic before embarking on our trip might have covered dengue, but no such luck. Although, a quick look at our vaccination book did remind us that we were covered for various types of Hepatitis... so the fun with rusty nails game was still on. [For the record, while in ...

... lagoon area and we had lunch overlooking the river. It was then into the lagoon to act like 8 year olds again for a while - wicked! Later in the afternoon we went back to the van park and sat outside our van having dinner and a beer as the sun went down - most tranquil! We have decided to stay only one night in Mackay (if we can get out), but we are going to spend some time in the morning back at the lagoon ...

... Wozza, the guy who 'runs' the place, is going a bit deaf and every other word is a four letter word begining with 'f' but he's got a heart of gold. It's hard being a 'greenie' in redneck country, he says, in between telling us where to put the recycling, and letting us in on what he thinks of the latest urban developments along the side of the mangrove in nearby Mackay: " I told them it was gonna flood if they built there and it did so, two weeks later."

... and took away everything that they stood for and believed in. Aborigines are strongly tied to and connected to the land, and of course the Europeans stripped them of that. Another core value in Aboriginal culture is their family structure- families are extremely important and the entire extended families all live together and raise the children together. There is no separation between immediate and extended families. Well, the Europeans also ...

... internet from the hotel. Apparently it's high tide now and the locals expect the water to go down a bit once the tide goes out. I'm not expecting much though. I see our neighbours (wearing bright yellow and orange shirts, which mean they are government workers working on roads and facilities) are making the most of their day off by cracking their second beer for the morning at 8:30am. It might become a very interesting day... I feel sorry for the locals who's homes ...

... and there was nothing the Waeco had given up the ghost yet again. We tried changed the blown fuse 3 times but nothing. Waeco was going to receive a nice phone call from me in the morning. We are over the bl..dy thing. Statistics/Information Weather: Beautiful one day prefect the next : 24 degrees with 90% humidity Michelle's Sac: $424 Vitamins: $12 Clothes: $41 Food Shopping: $142 &amp; $37 &amp; $5 Sugar Mill ...