We spent a couple of nights at Agnes Water, and each evening the hosts lit the firepit and brought around munchies for the guests. Very civilised, and a great way to meet other travellers and get some info on places they had been to.
Our next stop was Keppel Sands, just south of Yeppoon. It was a neat little caravan park, off the beaten track, and right on the beach. We booked in for a couple of nights, and did the cliff top walk around the area - it wasn't a very long walk, but it was straight uphill, then straight downhill, so I gave my ankle a bit of a workout. Great views from the top, but the beaches were dark sand, and the sea was a green/brown colour.
On our second night here, we went to the local pub for a very good meal (my lamb shanks were melt-in-your-mouth deliciousness), and the rest of the group were all happy with theirs. While we were dining, Lorraine organised a Keno game for us, as she usually does when we are travelling with her. We got a couple of little wins, then we realised that we had 6 out of 6 numbers on one of our games! That was a prize of $1800! Well, we were all a little bit happy about this - $600 a couple for $10 investment, woohoo! We claimed this from the publican, but had a bit of a problem getting the whole amount, as Keno refused to pay more than $1000 in cash, and the rest had to be mailed to someone's address. The publican did his best to help us, and after a lot of fiddling around, we finally got it sorted. He would have been happy to pay us the whole amount and have Keno reimburse him, but apparently that's not how it's done. Anyway, we're all a lot better off than we started, so it might pay for some of our repairs along the way.
We had a look around Emu Park about 25km north of us. It was a pretty little spot, with a wonderful sculpture on the point called 'The Singing Ship'... it had huge white sails with several concealed organ pipes hanging vertically to represent the rigging on Captain Cook's 'Endeavour' - as the wind whistled through them, the ship 'sang' eerily.
Margaret and Danny had a flat tyre here, so had to get that fixed before we could move on. We drove up to Yeppoon to check it out - I lived in QLD around 30 years ago, and can remember the fuss when Japanese interests first bought into Yeppoon, to build a luxurious destination for Japanese tourists. There was a lot of opposition to the sale, but it went ahead anyway. I had it in my mind that this would be a very up-market, trendy area, similar to Noosa, so I was a bit disappointed with the main town area. It looked very tired, run-down and not at all what I was expecting. There were lots of lovely homes on the outer edges of Yeppoon, but the actual town centre was a bit of a let-down.
Our next stop will be Midge Point, just south of Proserpine.
Our next stop was Keppel Sands, just south of Yeppoon. It was a neat little caravan park, off the beaten track, and right on the beach. We booked in for a couple of nights, and did the cliff top walk around the area - it wasn't a very long walk, but it was straight uphill, then straight downhill, so I gave my ankle a bit of a workout. Great views from the top, but the beaches were dark sand, and the sea was a green/brown colour.
On our second night here, we went to the local pub for a very good meal (my lamb shanks were melt-in-your-mouth deliciousness), and the rest of the group were all happy with theirs. While we were dining, Lorraine organised a Keno game for us, as she usually does when we are travelling with her. We got a couple of little wins, then we realised that we had 6 out of 6 numbers on one of our games! That was a prize of $1800! Well, we were all a little bit happy about this - $600 a couple for $10 investment, woohoo! We claimed this from the publican, but had a bit of a problem getting the whole amount, as Keno refused to pay more than $1000 in cash, and the rest had to be mailed to someone's address. The publican did his best to help us, and after a lot of fiddling around, we finally got it sorted. He would have been happy to pay us the whole amount and have Keno reimburse him, but apparently that's not how it's done. Anyway, we're all a lot better off than we started, so it might pay for some of our repairs along the way.
We had a look around Emu Park about 25km north of us. It was a pretty little spot, with a wonderful sculpture on the point called 'The Singing Ship'... it had huge white sails with several concealed organ pipes hanging vertically to represent the rigging on Captain Cook's 'Endeavour' - as the wind whistled through them, the ship 'sang' eerily.Margaret and Danny had a flat tyre here, so had to get that fixed before we could move on. We drove up to Yeppoon to check it out - I lived in QLD around 30 years ago, and can remember the fuss when Japanese interests first bought into Yeppoon, to build a luxurious destination for Japanese tourists. There was a lot of opposition to the sale, but it went ahead anyway. I had it in my mind that this would be a very up-market, trendy area, similar to Noosa, so I was a bit disappointed with the main town area. It looked very tired, run-down and not at all what I was expecting. There were lots of lovely homes on the outer edges of Yeppoon, but the actual town centre was a bit of a let-down.
Our next stop will be Midge Point, just south of Proserpine.
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