Judy & Brian Tour Oz

Airlie Beach Week 1 Leaving Townsville at a respectable hour, we drove out of town and onto the very lamentable Bruce Highway for 3 1/2 hours of bashing and crashing our way down the goat track to Airlie Beach. We finally made it to Bowen, and as we were still stuck behind something or other travelling at 85, we considered taking luncheon, but then at the critical moment, they all turned into town, so we kept on going. Apart from a rogue ratbag truck driver who attempted to run us and another van off the road, it was ‘uneventful’. Finally we are here The Big 4 Adventure Whitsunday Resort at Cannonvale. As Cannonvale and Airlie Beach are almost the same place, we'll just call it Airlie Beach. Judy is finally in her favourite caravan park and we have been for a swim and been to the food shops and had a wine and all is right with the world. But what to do? There are the magnificent Whitsunday Islands of course, and Whitehaven Beach, but we've been to them all and frankly, are ...

Proserpine Qld. August 5, 2015 A day to go exploring inland a bit today. We went up to Proserpine first and wandered in and out of the old-fashioned shops that line the one street. Having exhausted this form of entertainment we adjourned to Cafe 22 on that main street. It may have been the only one for that matter, it's not that big a place. As it was, the moment that you walked in you knew it was 'the' place to have lunch as it was packed. The lack of thongs / flip flops / plugs on the customers' feet gave an indication that they were the local workers from the business and council offices. After lunch we started back down to Airlie, but took a detour out to a place called Cedar Creek. Not that we expected much, it hasn't rained for ages. We found, at the end of a side road off the side of a side road, a small-ish waterhole with a few drips coming down over the rocks. No water coming out of the waterhole and down the creek, which was a shame as it would be quit...