Thursday, 10 November 2011

DAY 70

DAY 70 – Friday
We left Yepoon and Darren had to pull up a short way out the road to pump up one of the car tyres that hadn’t been pumped up enough after 4wding.  Then we headed into Rockhampton, stopping to look at some shops before getting back on the road.

After a short stop at Gladstone for fuel we headed through to Tannum Sands and parked near the beach.  I cooked 2min noodles for lunch and then we went for a walk along the beach.  It was quite a windy day so the beach was full of kite surfers.  The boys stopped and talked to one guy that was getting ready to start, and he gave them some of the finer points of kite surfing.  They were great to watch and the speed he got was amazing.


Then we headed to a free camp on the Calliope River.  We found a great spot back off the river bank and it wasn’t long before the boys had the fishing gear out and were heading to the waters edge.  Meanwhile Darren got started on doing an oil change on the car.  Thomas gave up on the fishing first and came back to help Darren with the oil change.  When he had finished we went for a walk along the river to see how Mitch was going.  They all fished for a bit longer then we went back to the van for tea.


While I cooked tea, Darren lit a small campfire behind the caravan.  We sat around the fire and ate tea, enjoying the serenity of the camp.  The boys could hear a rustling in the bushes so they got out their torches.  The rustling turned out to be bilbies that were rummaging for food.  We also saw a possum that enjoyed a piece of Thomas’ hamburger.

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