Denise and Barry's Caravan Travels: June 12, 2016

Friday, June 17, 2016

Emu Park

It seems such a long time ago now since we spent a lovely three days at Emu Park, a small coastal town located 21 klms south of Yeppoon. We stayed at Bell Park Caravan Park which has access to Fishermans beach where we enjoyed lovely walks along the beach and looking offshore there are several islands including Great Keppel Island. To offset all this exercise we would end up at the local cafe/bakery for our morning tea.

The caravan park was rather basic the amenities are old but very clean, they are currently having power issues and running 3 generators to supply the park. These older parks are finding that with the newer caravans now with air cons, washing machines & all the mod cons their aging wiring is not coping very well. The park is also host to a colony of flying foxes which can be rather noisy at times, best not to have a site near any trees! On the upside a great location close to the beach and town with an easy walk to a sensational Anzac Memorial also The singing Ship, a memorial to Captain Cook.

Fisherman's Beach

Reward

Tuesday, June 14, 2016

Mt Morgan

Sunday found us returning to the Silver Wattle Caravan Park in Mt Morgan, we had stayed here last year and had enjoyed the warm and welcoming atmosphere of the park. Sarah, Mark & Maggie are wonderful hosts with a Happy Hour by the fire every evening with Pizza and nibbles supplied, Maggie enjoys sharing her extensive knowledge of this very unique old mining town. There is currently a feasibility study being done at the mine which looks very promising for restarting operations to recover the remaining gold, copper and pyrite resources.

It just happened that Anita & Jason were travelling up to Rockhampton on Monday as Archie had a doctors appointment and suggested we meet them for lunch. Rocky is only 40km from Mt Morgan so

of course we made the trip down the Range to see them and the grandkids. We had a lovely lunch at Bliss Cafe and then went to the Botanical Gardens playground for Liv and Archie to have some fun. Looking forward to spending time with them in Tannum Sands later in the month.

Today has been spent having a good clean up, we started yesterday finding a car wash to give the old Pajero a bath. Baz was able to partially clean the outside of the van, he was under strict instructions not to get water around the door side, as I didn't want wet grass & mud under foot. Washing is all up to date, floors cleaned and upholstery vacuumed in the van. All ready to head out to the coast.