Tannum Sands to Mackay via Yeppoon

Just in case you wondered what it is like when we update our blog..here is a typical photo. subject to internet availability.


Hannahs new friend (I think she is getting sick of me) called Connie. Will play fetch all day!


Campsite in Mackay...got a little lost.... Hannah cooking food! Also bought myself a guitar in Mackay so am currently learning as we travel. I'm determined to do it!!


Travelled north from Claireview to Sarina where we were going to camp but couldn't find anywhere so headed up the coast to Mackay.


The beach a Claireview approx 40m away.


Our road side rest stop at Claireview...next to the Bruce Highway and a train track. Quite noisy but free!


Bug Fight!!!! Hannah noticed a spider (an didn't scream) then it was attacked by this massive locust/grasshopper/cricket thing. The spider was beaten soundly and was then dragged off into the long grass. The orange thing (I will find out it's name) was longer and bigger than my middle finger...if you need some scale.

A message from Martin on facebook who went to the trouble of looking up the contenders in the above bug fight.............."I looked it up. It's a spider wasp (sometimes all black, sometimes with orange bits). Female wasps attack spiders, kill them and lay their eggs in them. Larvae hatch and eat spider, yum!" - Thank you Martin, I see you are working hard at Rolls Royce.


Again the picture doesn't do it justice but the plains when on for miles and miles with small stunted trees then there was a massive mountain range in the distance. The only thing I could compare it to was Lord of the Rings.


Driving along Kinka Beach....it was long and the sea was soooooooo far out.


A whale house we saw on our way back to Yeppoon on our Sunday afternoon drive.


Hannah took another photo of a boat :) however the photo doesn't quite show the full picture. There was a row of houses all evenly spaced then there was a gap with this boat in it....you had to be there really.


Whitsun among other vans at Emu Park. The light blue and green vans to the right were owned by two french couples. They were rude and very arrogant! just thought you would like to know :)


On the walk up to Wreck Point Lookout where there was an amazing view across to Keppel Island.

Me on the beach....the water was cold.

Cooee Beach - Yeppoon, approx 200m from our camp site.

From Tannum Sands we got back on the Bruce Highway and headed north to Yeppoon. This is where Ludwig Leichart the 18th Century explorer landed. There was a tight line fishing competition and a yacht race so the town was quite busy.