Easter 2014 Lawn Hill trip Day 9

I got up at 6:30 am as the sun was coming up. Someone needs to recalibrate the Roosters in Alpha as the were crowing randomly from about 5 am while the local Kookaburras were almost dead accurate with their calls as the sun came up. There had been a fairly heavy dew overnight for the first time and the tent was a bit damp on the outside. Had a quick pack up and left at 6:45 am, driving east into the rising sun wasn't much fun for awhile. Got to Emerald and refueled at around 8:30 am and ran into Wayne, Anne and the kids as they came into fuel up after having Brekky at Maccas. Then I found some breakfast and headed east again. 

Finally turned south onto the A3 and headed towards Biloela. Had an early lunch at a great little bakery on the way into town and I was returning to the car, Wayne and company drove past waving. I passed them later on as they stopped at a rest area in Monto. I refueled at Gayndah and guess who I saw drive past just as I was getting back onto the road. They stopped not much further at another rest area (Bin Bin I think) and I continued on south. 

I turned off the A3 at Tansey and headed to Kilkivan and then onto the main highway just north of Gympie where of course I got stuck behind someone doing at least 10 km per hour less than the speed limit. Then all the traffic lights in Gympie conspired to turn red just as I got to them. The only good thing was the new bit of road that was opened to the south of Gympie, very nice cruising at 110 km/hr until being dragged back to reality and a 90 km/hr single land road. In the background the sunset was looking pretty spectacular. Then a simple drive down the main road until I turned off to go to mum and dad's place at Caloundra for the night, arriving about 6pm and looking forward to a nice hot shower and a soft bed inside for a change. For the whole day the temperature gauge in the Paj didn't get over 30 deg, a first since the start of the trip.