Hydeaway Bay was nice but we need to move on if we want to see the rest of this continent. We have now more than 4,000 km covered but it feels we have not done a lot, apart from writing blogs. No, that is not true, we have seen actually quite a bit and enjoyed the scenery, the people and each other.
About that scenery; there is quite a bit of variety between flat and farm like, urban, coastal and hilly with one common thread though: sugar cane. Geez, kilometer after kilometer of fields with sugar cane. And the associated narrow gauge rail tracks that it is transported in. To the young readers, I suggest you consider becoming a dentist or alcohol addiction therapist or own a bar, because this cane must make an enormous mountain of sugar or bundaberg rum that is consumed.
We have several sources for campings and some of them have pictures. The picture of Toomulla Beach seems to come from the imagination of the writer of the article in Bush Camping with Dogs as there is no link between the actual spot and the picture. Still we had a nice time when we eventually reached the beach.
Marjo and Dotti struggled to wade through some of the lagoons formed by low tide.
And Nossi had his own way of dealing with it:
Followed of course with zoomies:
What we suddenly realized that if already at low tide we would struggle with the tide coming in, it would only get worse on the way back. We rushed back and made it with wet pants and dresses.
The higher tide made the sides of a channel on the beach collapse which scared Nossi and he had to very carefully investigate and by doing so caused to collapse more and that scared him more. A nice thing to watch.
Then we got treated on a falcon trying to get a meal together and he kept coming back to dive.
Our final view was of a lone fisherman:
When we came back on the quite full camping, we were accompanied by an orchestra of power generators owned by people to charge their batteries. That is ok for 5 minutes, well perhaps 4. But after two hours you’re about ready to #|~>€%^]@&$ or as Marjo suggests put earplugs in with some music. that worked too. I wished she had those ideas two hours earlier.
We had a very nice dinner with Coral Trout (local fresh), salad and sweet potato.
Tomorrow a less noisy camping 🙂
Posted from Wongaling Beach, Queensland, Australia.
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