Mackay Motels - Reviews and Rates

I never learn, cities are rubbish. Actually its not that bad better than Rocky for sure but its hardly exciting. Wanted to go see the Platypuses tomorrow but they're not going tomorrow, just my luck. Dont fancy hanging around much longer to be honest.

Airlie Beach next.

Hi to all,

Sadly we are on our way home and our trip is coming to a close, but the Queensland coastline has refreshed us a quite a lot. We have arrived in Mackay just north of the city at an excellent little caravan park right on Blacks beach. The tiny caravan park is home to some very large paperbark trees that shaded the entire front of...

I'd like to think that I had a relaxing weekend before embarking on my travels, and the pictures taken on Sabbath may indicate this however, I did manage to fill a skip with building rubbish and paint part of the back verandah before doing the big pack and prepare for the Solomons. Hopefully you'll all hear from me soon....

Thursday 12 March, 9.26pm, Gecko's Rest So if you've ever seen Australia on a map, you may notice it is a fairly sizeable land mass. And if you've ever read any Bill Bryson, you may be aware that when they find a name they like, they stick to it. (Count the number of things called Macquarie if you've got a spare twenty minutes and a head for num...

Since we had a little kitchen in the back of the van we wanted to make full use of it and stopped in Rockhampton, beef capital of Australia, for some steaks. Never thought it would be so hard to find a butcher in the beef capital - we had to drive round and round to find one. And then round and round again to find a bottle shop. Alcohol is not s...

Our appointment at Proserpine hospital was 10.00am and as this was on the way to Mackay we left Airlie Beach early and headed to Outpatients. After a one hour wait we were ushered in to see the doctor who ordered an xray which put the shivers up us a little. However they told us afterwards that if there is a fracture it is only a small one and w...

Finishing touches to luggage, went thru checklist for 100th time, met touring party at local airport. Everyone in cricket team travelling garb, including sponsored jackets which may well come in handy during UK "summer". Farewelled our two grown-up boys and relatives before boarding 1.5hr flight south (1000km) bound for Brisbane, nearest interna...

got there when it was dark and left when it was dark.. they didnt like pets.. oops.. what they dont no didnt kill them... we dont think we missed out on much there though.. the mc donnals drive though was good hehe