A quick trip down the East Coast
We spent the first few days after leaving Mt Carbine travelling through the Atherton Tablelands. Visiting the many Waterfalls and visiting lots of fresh fruit markets! Yum!!!
Tori and Ella at the Curtain Fig Tree
I love the huge trees in far North QLD!
From here we headed to Misson Beach for a couple of nights. The weather was a little on the average side the second night with quite a wind blowing the van this way and that.
Travelling further down the coast we made a unplanned stop just south of Bowen..
15kms out of Bowen the Brake Master Cylinder on our car decided to jam on... Eeekkkk.... This meant the car would not drive. It just slowed to a stop and I had to
Rev it out in low 1st gear to get us 100m up and off the road. Not cool!!!
Now as handy as Gary is... This time we had no choice but to make use of our RAA membership! (Never have I been so glad to have this!)
We ended up having the car and caravan towed to Bowen and we were put up in a Motel for the weekend as no mechanics were open being a Saturday afternoon... All paid for by the RAA!
We soon met the very friendly family who own the motel we were staying in and they invited us to join them the following day for a BBQ whilst watching the Bathurst races on TV! Great!
On Monday the car was finally looked at by a mechanic and the car issue was confirmed. Gary was able to order the new part and spent the afternoon installing it. Monday night we were back on the road!
Our next stop was Mackay where we set up right on the beach for a couple of days.
We got the boat out and explored around the nearby islands. We put our lines in the water.. But failed to even get a bite!
Our next stop was Mt Hay. Tori especially had been extremely excited to visit here as we were there to find Thunder Eggs!
These rocks are millions of years old and come from the centre of an extinct volcano.
After a good 2hrs of sorting through rock and dirt we were thrilled with our finds.
That night we headed to Lake Victoria. Here we spent the next couple of days fishing and Ella managed to find lots of huge black mussels!
Heading further south we stopped in to visit our friends Roy and Margaret in Bundaberg. But before this we took a slight detour past the Bundaberg distillery for a tour of the ins and outs of what's involved in making their rum. We even got to sample some of their many different flavours... Gary.. Well he loved this ;)
Catching up with Margaret and Roy we enjoyed having dinner out with them at their local pub. We also spent some time exploring the lovely beaches here and a 4x4 track.
Next, after a quick after browsing through the Eumundi Markets, we finally caught back up with Mum and Dad in Brisbane where they were staying at their friends home.
As their friends were going away on holidays they invited us all to house sit their beautiful home. Complete with pool, spa, huge outdoor kitchen and multiple outdoor entertaining areas this place was huge!
We spent the next 5 days relaxing pool side, cleaning our vans and Gary spent some time giving our car some much needed TLC! Some of which included a 2 inch lift kit and 4 new tyres!
We also caught up with friends Bryan and Pauline for a delicious home cooked dinner in their home.
From here we travelled down to the Treasure Island Big4 Caravan park on the Goldcoast. With everyone else arriving the very next day, we made sure we did a big shop to fill our fridges and cupboards up with enough food to feed an army!
All we had to do now was wait... For the kids... This seemed like a enternity!!
Xx
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