Sarina Qld Friday 26 August 2022 (225km)

Sarina Qld Friday 26 August 2022 (225km)

Just for the record, the roadworks stared at Bowen and ran for at least 50km, all posted at 60 kph whether they had started any actual work or not.

Sarina was picked out as an overnighter on our way back down the coast, but the town is close enough to Mackay for me to go in and do a Parkrun. I've done this one before and its quite pleasant as it follows the lagoon round and through the Botanical Gardens. Not that you’ve go time to stop and admire, still trying to get back under 40 minutes. Made it in 42 mins flat, so its not so bad. After Parkrun (which starts at 7am in Qld) we normally find ourselves looking for breakfast before we drive back to our van. This time we ended up back in Sarina, the only place open for food was the restaurant at the Motel, which proved to be quite good.

Sarina also has a lovely heritage precinct that includes museum and a Sugar Shed, which is attached to the very much operational sugar mills. They run tours but the afternoon one was booked out and the next morning one is too late for us and our planned journey to Mt Larcom. Might be enough reason to come back here net time.

Sarina Sugar Shed. Sarina Qld

The van park was a bit quirky, starting with us being put out the back, which turned out quite good as it was close to the loos. They also had a range of large animal statues all over the place such as this Rhinocerous...

Rhinocerous. Sarina Qld

We had a spare hour in the afternoon so we took a 20km run out to the beach. What a disappointment. Apart from being slightly better than a mud-flat, its almost total inaccessible due to the houses build right along it. We checked out another beach called Greengrasses, but that was more of the same and that was enough fun for us for the day.