Friday, May 19, 2006
The middle bit..
The middle bit involved much travelling!
Anyway, weare about 1000km further up the coast, in the tropical paradise of the Whitsunday Islands. We have a room for a few nights at Airlie beach, on the mainland, are off this afternoon to book a 3 day, 2 night sailing adventure with Aussie Adventure Sailing. Not entirely sure which vessel yet, as it depends which ones have room on standby rates. In any case, I'll tell you all about that little adventure when I get off the boat.
Since I last updated we managed to get over to Fraser Island. After visiting Bundaberg Rum Distillery, we drove down back to Hervey Bay, where we stayed a couple of nights before catching a day package over which included a flight and about 6hrs of 4WD hire.It was a really good day,except for the unfortunate puncture,which lost us a bit of time especially since the spare wheel nuts were rusted on! However, we got to swim in the glorious Lake McKenzie and yes it does really look like that! I saw a big goanna too (about 1 metre long) and we had a good drive on the beach, before catching our plane home.
Next stop was Emu Bay, with the intention of hopping over to Great Keppel Island. However it was pouring with rain, so instead we opted to drive yet further, within range of the Whitsundays. Because it was raining, and apparently you don't go to the beach when it rains, we opted to head inland for a few days to the very beautiful Eungella National Park, where we have spent the past 3nights at the very cozy Broken River Mountain Retreat. It is an eco style cabin/lodge resort, with it's main attraction being the colonies of platypus in the river next door. We saw loads of them, in addition to turtles, river rats(yuck!), flocks of macaws and a whole host of rainforest related creepy crawlies. We went on a nighttime spotlighting tour with a local guide which was really good, except our lack of finding any of the bigger wildlife such as wallabies and tree gliders.
Anyway, I suppose I better go. I have a return flight booked for 20th of August. So I'll be back pretty soon. Not far to Cairns now!
Hope your summer is beginning!
Best wishes,
Jan.
Anyway, weare about 1000km further up the coast, in the tropical paradise of the Whitsunday Islands. We have a room for a few nights at Airlie beach, on the mainland, are off this afternoon to book a 3 day, 2 night sailing adventure with Aussie Adventure Sailing. Not entirely sure which vessel yet, as it depends which ones have room on standby rates. In any case, I'll tell you all about that little adventure when I get off the boat.
Since I last updated we managed to get over to Fraser Island. After visiting Bundaberg Rum Distillery, we drove down back to Hervey Bay, where we stayed a couple of nights before catching a day package over which included a flight and about 6hrs of 4WD hire.It was a really good day,except for the unfortunate puncture,which lost us a bit of time especially since the spare wheel nuts were rusted on! However, we got to swim in the glorious Lake McKenzie and yes it does really look like that! I saw a big goanna too (about 1 metre long) and we had a good drive on the beach, before catching our plane home.
Next stop was Emu Bay, with the intention of hopping over to Great Keppel Island. However it was pouring with rain, so instead we opted to drive yet further, within range of the Whitsundays. Because it was raining, and apparently you don't go to the beach when it rains, we opted to head inland for a few days to the very beautiful Eungella National Park, where we have spent the past 3nights at the very cozy Broken River Mountain Retreat. It is an eco style cabin/lodge resort, with it's main attraction being the colonies of platypus in the river next door. We saw loads of them, in addition to turtles, river rats(yuck!), flocks of macaws and a whole host of rainforest related creepy crawlies. We went on a nighttime spotlighting tour with a local guide which was really good, except our lack of finding any of the bigger wildlife such as wallabies and tree gliders.
Anyway, I suppose I better go. I have a return flight booked for 20th of August. So I'll be back pretty soon. Not far to Cairns now!
Hope your summer is beginning!
Best wishes,
Jan.
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