We’re at Elliot heads which is 20 k’s out of Bundaberg. Great caravan park right on the water, so we have the sound of the sea crashing onto the shore of a nighttime, probably the last time for awhile until we get into NSW.

Spent most of the day in Bundaberg and mainly at the Bundaberg Distillery Company, home of “Bundy Rum”. It’s been 46 years since I have visited this place, I was a 15 year old on a school trip and whilst the years have flown some of the memories came back in a flash today. Although I wasn’t allowed to take a big swig of Bundy from a vat today as I did back in 1974, I did notice a lot of stuff from that time. I suppose the smell of molasses doesn’t change over the years, only the appreciation of the end product, particularly now there are so many varietals. Bundy Banana & Toffee Liquor could become a special favourite!

After the Distillery tour it was lunch at Bundaberg’s famous Grunksie’s seafood restaurant on the Burnett River. A bit of fish cleaning was going on the river and the pelicans gave us a flyby by the squadron (that’s a collective noun for a group of pelicans flying, so who said I just give out “CRAPP”).

Tomorrow Andrew and I are of to play golf, the girls shopping before we have a final dinner tomorrow night. We are going our seperate ways Sunday, Sue and Andrew heading home to Wodonga and we’re heading out west into the outback.