More of Australia

 Episode two

After we left Mudjimba we went to look at Coolum Beach. Oh my goodness it was just as lovely as Mudjimba. 

We stopped on the side of the road to have our lunch on our way to Tin Can Bay. We were parked on a fence line of a property that had a lovely duck pond near the fence. We sat and ate our sandwiches and watched the ducks glide about doing their ducky thing. All very serene.

We had planned to go and feed the dolphins at Tin Can Bay, but we were both feeling under the weather with our colds and didn’t feel like getting up early to go. I slept most of the time we were there, so not a lot was seen. Before we left we did a bit of a tiki tour around the town. The bay was lovely with lots of boats that will need a lot of TLC. There were quite a few houseboats there too.

After leaving Tin Can Bay, we stopped at Maryborough for morning tea. This is the town where the author of Mary Poppins was born. It’s a very old town with lots of old buildings with dates like 1875 on them. 

We were going to go straight to Bundaberg instead of going to Woodgate as per our itinerary, but when we stopped for lunch at a roadside rest area, we met a couple who were on their way to Woodgate. They said what a lovely place it was, so we decided to go after all. 

There is a lot of sugar cane, avocados and macadamia nuts grown around here. MIles and miles of them.

Next we went to the town of 1770. That’s it’s name. That was the year that Captain Cook beached the Endeavour there to do some repairs on her.

We stopped off at Bundaberg for a looksee. We were going to go to the Distillery, but changed our minds.

Instead we went to the botanical gardens and had a train ride around the park. It was an old sugar cane train engine painted up, with open carriages behind it for the passengers to ride in. 

There were sugar cane train crossings across the road in places as we came north. The gauge is very

narrow and made us chuckle as we went over them.

We didn’t like the camping ground at 1770 very much. We could  cope with no wife, (my data wouldn’t go

either. I was very jealous of Eddie). tv and radio, but when we went to have our showers they were very

disappointing. Barely lukewarm and not a lot of pressure either. When we went to do the dishes in the

camp kitchen, we discovered there was no plug for the sink. We weren’t amused. We decided not to stay

another night after all. So far it has been our worst camping experience, so we aren't doing too bad.

The photos were taken on the White Hills reserve that Katrina took us too. The trees seem to be clipped

so that the view of Brisbane is framed by them.

The pathway through the trees

Brisbane city from the top.