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Day 181 – The Crocodile Hunter’s legacy
We get ready with a burnt hot cross bun (as Daisy was in charge ????) and some coffees before getting out and on the road With one activity in mind today, we get straight to it: Beerwah is only half an hour away and hosts a very famous tourist landmark here Australia Zoo isn’t cheap…
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Day 180 – The Ginger Coast of Aus
Slow day today – first day in a while we’ve got more than one night somewhere so we can sleep in (or at least try) Couple mugs full of the good stuff, with the cafetiere in our bungalow, and a hot cross bun and a half each, of the Cadbury choc chip version, with some…
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Day 179 – Kayaking the Everglades
Wake up and get out of our place We pop to a Macca’s nearby, still in Hervey Bay, for a treat brekkie On the road we’ve got to get passed the bottom half of the Great Sandy National Park, consisting of a very long arched stretch of beaches Sadly the road doesn’t go near to…
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Day 178 – A Quoll-ity day
We have some left over pizza slices from last night so we enjoy that with a coffee for breakfast Out of the motel only 20 minutes late and then a little hop to an adjacent street for the Alexandra Zoo It’s a very little tourist spot with a couple of exhibits for various Aussie breeds…
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Day 177 – Rum-ing around Bundaberg
Nice, leisurely morning with Dave being a gent and making brekkie of hot cross buns and some coffee We get up and get a recommendation of a local delicacy as we leave our place to stay so head off in the car First stop is back at the 1770 Marina – the 1770 Marina Cafe…
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Day 175 – Take me down to Rockhampton city
Coffee, a hotel cross bun each and get ready as we have to check out and do a big lug of driving today Make a coffee for the road too to get us to Sarina First stop is some lunch at Natalesha’s Cafe: egg’s benny and banana and maple syrup pancakes Get on the road…
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Day 174 – Sailing the Whitsundays
Up early this morning, we’ve a boat to catch! We notice some rawkus outside our window Turns out we have a couple visitors sheltering from the showers Some porridge, coffees and showers to meet our shuttle – only a couple minutes late too ???? – we’re the first to be collected The bus carts us…
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Day 173 – Cooking amongst a crusade of Cockatoos
Lazy Sunday for us – first in a long while Dave is up earlier than Daisy not being able to sleep: he plays some Mario (on Mario day, Mar10 ????) on the Switch, watches some Flash, etc. Eventually, Daisy awakes and starts the day too We enjoy the start of Big and then hunger strikes…
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Day 172 – All around Airlie Beach
Wake up with the usual coffee and porridge Have to do a little admin as well as adding an extra couple nights to our stay here as our boat trip around the Whitsundays will now be on Monday Get ready and grab the local bus into town ($4.80 each for the day) to catch the…
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Day 171 – A couple of big things
Wake up with a couple coffees and working out some breaks along the way of driving today Out the door, we pop to a charity shop briefly for Daisy and into Woolies for some snacks Now we can get started – drive about an hour to get us to Plantation Park, in Ayr They have…