We have just arrived in Yeppoon. This is the best spot for a caravan park ever! Right on the beach and a park nearby with a swing that has a 'seatbelt' for Jesse. We have been trying to track down one of these swings for a while now, as this seems to be Jesse's benchmark of a good place to hang out. Every time we leave a spot and tell him we are heading 'North' he asks if there will be swings there.
When we arrived at the park, the managers were not in attendance but left a whiteboard out the front of the office with the available site numbers, how many days they are available for, a map so you could see where they were, and the toilet keys for each site. So you pick a vacant site, rub it off the whiteboard and take the toilet keys or your site. What a brilliant idea! And we can see Great Keppell Island from our beds. And I am sitting outside the van, typing the blog with a glass of wine, the sun going down, the sounds and sights of the beach, John Butler playing out of the car stereo, and the smell of t-bone steaks cooking on the barbie, life doesn't get much better than this!
There is nothing better than waking up to the sound of the ocean just outside your window! We took a drive down to Emu Park which is just south of Yeppoon on the coast. We visited the Singing Ship (pictured) which is a memorial to Captain Cook, when it is windy the tubes vibrate and hum.
Then we cruised into Rockhampton as we needed to do shopping and get the car looked at. While the car was at the mechanics (no-where land) we sat in a nearby park (no playground), until it got the better of us and we decided to look for a pub to have a beer (it was pretty hot). Only problem was whether it would be a white pub, well we found one, although all it had was a public bar and I was a bit sceptical about taking Jesse in so sent Hutchy in to have a look, I needn't have worried, there was a little girl sitting at the bar with her mum and grandparents (grandma was largered), and a cat roaming around as well. Anyway one beer was enough to pass the time and the car was ready. We then went to visit Marshall (Meg Rac's brother) and his wife Gabbi and three kids, had a lovely dinner with them and a good chat.
We (reluctantly) packed up the next day, Saturday, and headed on up the road again. We had to make one last stop in Yeppoon before leaving though at the 'Great Australian Ice-Creamery' as they have the BEST bubblegum ice-cream, which is my favorite ever! (It tastes just like the bubblegum out of the machines when we were kids, but even better). I managed to talk Hutchy into it by telling him they had licorice flavour also (luckily they did), however Jesse didn't like his Mango one so ate all of Hutchy's licorice anyway. I escaped with my bubblegum ice-cream intact under the ruse of walking up to the Newsagents to get the paper.
I actually had a good reason for getting the paper that day. My good friend from Mooloolaba Ruth Frost 'Frosty' was featured in the Courier Mail weekend magazine. Frosty wrote a book 'Pavlova's to Popcorn' about her journey to America as a newly-wed 'war-bride'. She is an amazing lady. Check out her website at http://www.frostmedia.com.au/ruthfrost/
We decided to make a stop at the Capricorn Caves, just north of Rockhampton. We took the hour tour which was just amazing. The caves were discovered in the late 1800's by a man called 'Olsen' and some of the timber bridges and stairs that he built to get around the caves are still used today. In the biggest cave called 'Cathedral Cave' they actually hold weddings, it is absolutely stunning and has near perfect acoustics, the tour guide played a CD for us and it sounded just incredible.
Jesse has started calling everyone, males and females alike, 'that fella', we are definately in North Qld.
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