We packed the van in the morning and headed toward Rockhampton. On the way we decided to call into Yepoon for a look while we had lunch. After calling in to the Tourist Information we decided to drive 20km and stay at a council caravan park at Emu Park. We selected a nice sheltered site and set up the van, then decided to go for a look around.
Our first stop was the Singing Ship. It was basically a white sculpture of a ship that was erected to honour Captain Cook, who had landed here and walked up to this point. The amazing thing about this sculpture is that the masts of the ship were made out of wind chimes, and with the wind blowing from the ocean, it was constantly “singing”.
Next we headed north to the town of Yepoon, where we found the swimming beach. We went for a walk along the beach while Mitchell and Thomas played rugby/football and the sand. Along the Esplanade we also found a “climbing web” and Mitchell and Thomas swung and climbed on it for a while before Darren couldn’t resist joining them. On the way back to Emu Park we checked out a few fishing spots, but nobody seemed to be catching anything.
Great Keppel Island is just across the way from Yepoon, and we went to the booking office to see about going across on the ferry. The ferry was booked out for Thursday so we couldn’t get on. (They also told us that the insurance companies had stopped them from running any water sports, so that if you did go across, you were limited in what you could do).
Back at camp, we went for a walk along the beach before watching tv. Thomas went to bed early, and when Mitch went, he saw a possum at the base of a nearby tree, but it ran up when Mitch scared it. He cut up an apple to try and coax it back down and left it at the bottom of the tree when he went to bed.
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