Tewantin, Qld

The reason you stay 3nghts in Tannum Sands is so that you can erase the previous days tortuous travel from you mind and refreshed, you go back out to the Bruce Highway (who are they kidding?) and do it all again. Anther 400K in 6 1/2 hours. It's truly atrocious, even the new bits are totally wasted, just a continuous string of potholes joined by broken tar. There's lots of evidence of road work (didn't actually see any actual work going on) and guess what? They are replacing the single lane goat track with an upgraded single lane goat track. It's not that there's no traffic, it's just a solid stream heading north with no letup the entire day. The best part is that they have these 80k / Road Work signs and no work and in the middle for apparently no reason and covering at most a stretch of 50m, a 60k sign! We finally hit a section announced with a Start Motorway sign, and the surface immediately go worse until it to it too had a 80/60 speed sign. Finally, to our relief we came to the End Motorway sign and back to the original but better roadway. What a nightmare. Stopped at Childers for a break and some tea. Stopped at Gympie for lunch at a lovely little park complete with lakes and  gardens and walkways over bridges.

The last 60k down into Tewantin wasn't so bad and we finally parked ourselves in a lovely van park just up the road from the river and its many delights. Tewantin has developed somewhat since we were here last, its come upmarket with marinas and shopping precincts, but its hardly surprising given the nearness of its famous neighbour, Noosa.

Enough already, I'm ready for a rest.

Snap of the day

Mum, Dad and the chicks. Alford Park, Gympie, Qld