Fletcher Creek to Canberra

Fletcher Creek was a lovely spot, but this is where the rain started - Bill & Lorraine actually packed up their van and moved it to a less muddy spot early in the morning of our second day there. We had planned to stop at Charters Towers for a night, but instead had breakfast (at MacDonalds) and looked up our emails and blog using their wireless internet.

Discovered that Trev's hotmail address had been hacked, and everyone on his contact list received an email advertising cheap laptop computers and electrical goods - it even went on my blog, so I had to go in and try to fix that. Apologies to everyone who got that email - we're reporting the scam to Hotmail. Not happy, Jan!

The rain continued at Charters Towers so we travelled on through, and got to Townsville and stayed at the Big 4 Woodlands cara pack. Went to the Thai International for a lovely meal with Lorraine & Bill, then had a look along The Strand, which is a boardwalk filled with lots of parks, free swimming pools etc, right on the ocean, looking across to Magnetic Island. Rain continued.

Next day we headed to Hydeaway Bay to meet up again with Les, Gill & Elisa. We stayed there in 2006 and loved it, went snorkelling, swimming, bbq'd in the camp kitchen - not quite the same this time! Miserable bloody weather, rained for the 2 nights we stayed there, but they had a pool table in the common area, so we had a game (and a drink) or two. Les, Gill & Elisa left after 1 night, so the four of us had a look around Dingo Beach the next day (still raining) then decided to go to Carmila Beach the following day.

Guess what??? Yes, it was still raining at Carmila Beach, and forecast was for rain all the way down the coast for the next few days. Fraser Island had 'wild weather warnings' so that put paid to our plans to go there. Things were just not going according to schedule. Continued on to Rockhampton where we stayed at a not too good (and poorly named) cara park - The Country Club Cara Park - don't know where the Country Club was supposed to be!??! Got a call that day letting us know that Comcar were interviewing again, on Monday and Tuesday, so after a lot of phoning backwards & forwards (long story) Trev & I decided to head for home so he could get to an interview on Tuesday.

We left Rocky the next morning and headed for Canberra via the Newell Highway - stopped at Moonie Crossroads then Wellington the next two nights, and arrived at home on Saturday afternoon - 1500 easy kms inland.

So, our trip didn't quite go according to plan, and we didn't come back dripping in gold, but we enjoyed the time away, the company we were travelling with, and the sights we did see. My next post will list some of the things that went wrong throughout our trip. Have a look at my Picasa Web Albums, cos I've started publishing some of my photos on there.