After leaving Finch Hatton we started making our way down the east coast towards Noosa where we are planning to stay for 8 days to visit family, and a friend who was in my class at school - 40 years ago!
It isn't easy choosing where to stay as we want to avoid large towns yet don't want to miss them either. I have to explore everything!! Travelling down the east coast on the Bruce Highway is fairly hair raising and one has to have all your wits about you negotiating fast moving trucks, more caravans and fast cars travelling between Brisbane and Cairns (I presume). Once off the highway all the beautiful places can be discovered. We would need months and months in central Queensland to visit all the beautiful places there are.
We ended up choosing to stay at the The Caves -outside Rockhampton - in a fantastic bush camp which is part of the Capricorn Caves tourist park, Seventeen Seventy - an absolutely beautiful town on the coast named in memory of Captain Cook's landing in 1770 and Burrum Heads - half an hour out of Hervey Bay where we couldn't resist going to see the whales that migrate from the Antarctic. We stayed a few days at each place and just enjoy discovering what each place has to offer by walking, driving or riding our bikes.
We can't believe how lucky we have been to have managed to choose such beautiful places to stay. The beaches, the ocean, the sunsets are just amazing and no photos do justice to some of the beautiful sights we see. We continue to meet great people too. One couple we met live in a very interesting sounding eco village in Adelaide. They were so touched when I invited them to share pancakes with us one morning and have invited us to visit them in their village when we pass through Adelaide one day.
