We woke up and it was raining. Darren did some finishing touches to Johns tv, and we packed up in the rain. We said goodbye and headed south once more, stopping in Bundaberg. The caravan park we found was right beside the Burnett River, and the boys made plans to do some fishing while we were there.
The rain had stopped so we laid everything out to dry and headed for the tourist information centre. We picked up a lot of brochures and found that the last tour of the Bundaberg Rum Distillery was at 3pm. If we went straight there we would just make it.
The tour showed us the process of making rum, from molasses through fermentation to the bottling and packaging. The boys were happy to find that they got a taste test of the molasses and a smell of the alcohol after fermentation, but after that there was nothing for them!
At the end of the tour, the adults were served two drinks each to sample the different products that were bottled at the distillery. Much to Darren’s delight I don’t like the taste of rum, so elected to give him my two drinks and drive home.
We then went back to the caravan park and had a shower, and decided to go and have a look at the lookout. We thought it would be nice because it was getting dark and we would see the lights of the city. Unfortunately, the area is really flat and the lookout is not very high, so the view was nothing fantastic.
We drove back into town as the rain started, and it absolutely poured! The rain was so heavy that we had to sit in the car and wait for it to ease before going into Eagle Boys to get pizza for tea. It had stopped by the time we got back to the caravan and ate the pizza, so the boys were able to sleep in their swags outside the van.
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