Woke up this morning to a beautiful day but unfortunately it started badly with a flat tyre on the caravan. With the van having new tyres, it was surprising that I had a failure. So after some grunting and groaning I managed to change out the wheel for the spare to discover we’d picked up a wood splinter that had pierced the tyre tread. So a un-planned stop in Gladstone to get the tyre repaired eventuated. Whilst is was a set back it did enable us to see Gladstone and have brunch down by the water on the Auckland Inlet.

There was a reason we didn’t stop in Gladstone, its not the most attractive costal city you would find. Down by the water with the parks and gardens was nice but its an industrial/mining town and the infrastructure is easy to see from all parts of the town.

Once the tyre was repaired it was off to Seventeen Seventy our next stop on the trip. Seventy Seventy was the first place in Queensland where Captain Cook landed back in 1770, hence the name. We have been looking forward to staying here with Sue and Andrew, as they were here a few years ago and Rick and Lisa also stayed here and loved it. We are here for the next 5 nights, so there will be posts about our stay in 1770 coming up.