We’ve had a couple of days here at Cape Palmerston Holiday Park, which is just south of Mackay on the QLD coast. It’s a very quiet spot with no shops or services around anywhere, so if you want a relaxing holiday, communications free, then this is the place to be!

Susan and Andrew again tried their luck fishing in the river but other than 2 small fish caught by Andrew, they came up short again. What does piss you off is you set up and are fishing for an hour and then someone comes along next to you and catches one in 5 minutes. Susan says fishing is very relaxing, too relaxing if you ask me! I think you get more action watching grass grow (particularly in North Queensland).

So with my free time, I sat down and worked out our itinerary for the remainder of our trip. We are planning to travel down the coast to Bundaberg (of course) then come inland to Longreach in the “outback”. Then head south to Charleville and back over to the coast via Toowoomba. We’ll travel down the north coast of New South Wales to Newcastle then head inland again to Dubbo and Parkes before heading back to the coast to the Blue Mountains just outside Sydney. Then down to the Central Highlands south of Sydney, on to Canberra for a few days, before hitting the coast again at Bateman’s Bay and then follow the coast down into Victoria, staying at Mallacoota, Paynesville, Yarram and Inverloch before getting home just prior to Christmas.

We are sort of on the home run now. We’ve covered about 23,000 k’s so far and I expect we’ll have covered approx 30,000 at the end so we are about 3/4’s thru the trip.

Tomorrow we are off to Yeppoon, which is about 30 k’s from Rockhampton but on the coast. This is the launching place if you want to go to Great Keppel Island. Those of you old enough will remember the tourist slogan of get “wrecked” on Great Keppel. We don’t plan to get wrecked on this trip.