Day 56 Mackay to Yeppoon

 We had a day to fill in before we were due in Yeppoon and we did have plans of stopping somewhere else along the coast, but it is so busy with the school holidays that we headed straight to Rockhampton and just stayed the night there. We were lucky to get the last site at the Discovery Park for that night as the 2022 Australian Junior Motocross Championships were on. Not exactly the most inspiring place to stay but good for one night.

The Bruce Highway never fails to deliver as one of the worst especially the stretch between Mackay and Rocky. It has always been the same but add lots of caravans and impatient people and it gets very interesting.

The good part of staying in Rocky was dinner at the Brunswick Hotel - a great place if you like good food especially steak. Very full when we left. 

Headed for Yeppoon and our caravan park for the next 4 nights. We were lucky enough to get a beachfront sight at the caravan park just out of town and it was a beautiful spot just to sit back and enjoy the view. We spent a lot of time walking, swimming and Russ even chucked a line in.

We did find this amazing shell museum that was attached to the visitor information centre . For a gold coin donation, you can go in and have a look at an enormous collection of shells some of which are very old and very big. There are lots of things to do in Yeppoon including going over to Great Keppell Island, but it was school holidays, so most things were booked out. I did forget how hilly Yeppoon is .

We did drive over to Rosslyn Bay and check out the marina and the seafood shop - picked up some magnificent prawns for dinner, 

We did have one rainy day so headed into Rockhampton for a bit of retail therapy - I come to the conclusion that all shopping centres are the same - same shops and similar decor. 

The great thing about Yeppoon was that my eldest sister Christine, my niece Karen and her 2 kids were there at the same time. Great to catch up with them.

Tomorrow, we start to head west again towards Carnarvon Gorge