Up early, had a quick bite to eat and coffee and then packed up and left to go to Yeppoon. Found a nice coffee shop and had an iced coffee before heading off Capricorn Caves (near Mt Etna Caves). We got there just before 9 am and booked on a Geo Tour at 10:15, This gave us heaps of time to refuel with tea and scones and get cameras and walking gear sorted out. It was ok but too much fossils and not enough Caves.
Then we drove out to Mt Etna Caves and walked around the circuit but you couldn't actually get to the cave part.
We headed south back into Rockhampton to find a tyre Store and a Repco for Shane. Unfortunately, they couldn't fix Shane's tyre so we ended up with KFC for lunch. Shane then headed off to do some shopping while I sat in a park in the shade and worked out where we were going to head for the evening.
After Shane had refueled and done some shopping, we decided to head out along the Capricorn highway and have a look at Goodedulla National Park. It was pretty slow going getting there as a lot of it was over farm roads that were not meant for high speed travel. Then when we got into the park the roads got worse and it was obvious from the branches and trees over the road that the ranger hadn't been in for awhile. The Hema maps didn't show all the roads or campsites while the pdf I downloaded from the parks web page was sorely lacking. Lots of intersections with a small number on a fence post and no signs meant it was a maze. The camp site we had been aiming for didn't seem to exist, so we kept on driving until we came across an old shed which looked like it was still occasionally used when they mustered the cattle that were around.
We headed south back into Rockhampton to find a tyre Store and a Repco for Shane. Unfortunately, they couldn't fix Shane's tyre so we ended up with KFC for lunch. Shane then headed off to do some shopping while I sat in a park in the shade and worked out where we were going to head for the evening.
After Shane had refueled and done some shopping, we decided to head out along the Capricorn highway and have a look at Goodedulla National Park. It was pretty slow going getting there as a lot of it was over farm roads that were not meant for high speed travel. Then when we got into the park the roads got worse and it was obvious from the branches and trees over the road that the ranger hadn't been in for awhile. The Hema maps didn't show all the roads or campsites while the pdf I downloaded from the parks web page was sorely lacking. Lots of intersections with a small number on a fence post and no signs meant it was a maze. The camp site we had been aiming for didn't seem to exist, so we kept on driving until we came across an old shed which looked like it was still occasionally used when they mustered the cattle that were around.
It was getting close to sunset and it was near the river which had a little bit of water in it, so we decided to set up camp. Of course we couldn't set up on the nice flat area around the shed we had to bush bash the cars down to a nice little spot closer to the river.
Shane went for a quick swim in the river and then we lit the fire. We cooked diner and sat around the fire before heading off to bed.
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