We got on the road reasonably early and stopped at Cardwell for fuel, before continuing on to Ingham. We stopped at Maccas for lunch, where we read a local tourist board. The board showed some really nice pictures of the local area, and we decided to drive back to the Lucinda turnoff and head to Lucinda for a look.
First stop in Lucinda was the boat ramp, where there were many boats moored in a picturesque little inlet. We walked out onto one of the pontoons and watched a man netting for prawns. He wasn’t catching many, and soon gave up. After a quick look around, we got back in the car and headed around to the main part of town.
We stopped at the beach area and wandered down onto the sand. Mitchell and Thomas decided to play at the playground while we walked along the beach. There is a jetty out into the water from the nearby sugar mill that is reported to be 7.5km long. We walked out to the point and were amazed to see the sand flats that were left when the tide is out. We also noticed that the sand seemed to have real gold flecks through it, and theses flecks were suspended in the water giving it a lovely golden glow.
When we got back to the playground the boys had been playing around on a spinning toy. Darren had a go, and then the boys each had another go. Thomas was first to start feeling ill and it wasn’t long before he was sitting on the ground looking rather green.
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| Thomas after the spinning toy having a chuck ...LOL |
On the way out of Lucinda we stopped at a little seafood shop and Darren brought some prawns. Then we went to Taylors beach for a look. There were quite a few people fishing along the beach when we pulled up, so the boys headed down to see what was being caught. Almost immediately a lady caught a fish and reeled it in. It was a Long-tom, and we were amazed to see its long nose and hundreds of sharp teeth. She wrapped it in a cloth to remove the hook, and threw it back.
We drove past the cemetery for a look and had to wait for a cane train that was criss-crossing the road we were on. Suddenly Darren stopped the car saying that something had fallen off onto the road. He turned the car around and we realised that he had put the box containing all our bathers and beach towels on the roof at Lucinda and had forgotten about it. The box had blown off and all of our stuff was strewn along the road. I ran along the road picking it all up, much to the amusement of the other people using the road.
We headed to Saunders Beach to a free camp for the night, only to find that the camping area was limited and there was no room for us. After referring to Camps 6 we decided to go back a couple of kms to a camp called Bluewater and try our luck there. We drove in and found a place where we could squeeze in a small gap between two vans, only to be told by one of the van owners that they were moving anyway. He pulled his van out and we pulled in.
Bluewater was a great place where you were limited to a 24 hour stay. There was a great lawn area with a playground on one side, with a toilet block. Behind us there was a sports field. We talked to the people camped around us and had pita bread pizzas for tea. A kookaburra came down to explore the campsite while we were sitting there. That night when the boys got in their swags they saw about 30 wallabies congregating on the sports oval near them.
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