From South Mission Beach we travelled down the Bruce to Townsville and on the extra 80km to Ayr for our overnight stop. We went to the Big4 Silverlink park, a little run down, not many vans in, but a fair few workers and backpackers. It was Ok for overnight and I managed a swim in the pool, which is just swimmable despite not being heated.
Then it was a fairly easy drive the 300km down to Blacks Beach, which is just north of Mackay, in the Northern Beaches suburbs.
Our site is just a short walk to the beach itself, which stretches for 6km, and there is a pool, which is 'refreshing'. It's a pretty nice place actually: very clean and quiet.
We're only here two nights and so today we wandered into Mackay itself, to have a look around, then out to the harbour and marina ogling the megayachts, and back across to the north to have lunch at the Eimeo Hotel.
We've taken a chance and booked ourselves in for a week next year....
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| Blacks Beach. Mackay Qld |
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| Blacks Beach. Mackay Qld |
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| Marina, Mackay Qld |
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| Marina, Mackay Qld |
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| Lighthouse, originally from Pine Island, off the coast of Mackay, it was built in 1885 and dismantled in 1986, when it was relocated to Mackay and restored. It is the last kerosene powered lighthouse in full working order in the world. Marina, Mackay Qld |
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