A bit of a walk around Yeppoon township this morning, then out to Emu Park which is about 30 k’s south of Yeppoon. Emu Park was a lovely little town and it had a superb ANZAC memorial. It seems a lot of towns around the country were able to gain significant funds from the Commonwealth Government to assist in building memorials for the 100th anniversary of the Gallipoli landing. Numerous places we have visited around the country have put a lot of thought into building or upgrading their ANZAC memorials and Emu Park’s was one of the best.

Also Emu Park was were “Captain” (he was Lieutenant when he travelled to “Terra Australis”) James Cook named Keppel Bay in May 1770, one of the many places he visited on the east coast of Australia. A memorial has been erected at Emu Park in remembrance of this occasion.

I’ve mentioned before that Yeppoon had a very large resort, its called Capricorn Resort but unfortunately its closed. Only 1 of the championship golf courses and the Japanese Restaurant are still open, otherwise its a ghost town. It amazing to see an 830 room resort, with many restaurants, pools, bars and other attractions all overgrown and abandoned. There is talk that it will be rejuvenated and reopened but I think COVID might have put a dent in those plans. As I said the place is a ghost town but we couldn’t get a booking for the restaurant as it was booked out, simply amazing!

We also ventured out to Byfield, about 30 k’s north of Yeppoon to Nob Creek Pottery, were we purchased our first bit of “stuff” for our new house in Emerald. It was a unique pottery and the owners had been there for 40 years. The owner told me he came to Yeppoon for 1 day and has never left. Then again he did come from a freezing cold New Zealand.

Yeppoon has been much more than I envisaged and I would be happy to come back here again.