Yeppoon

24/06/13 St Lawrence

 A lot of driving but nothing exiting to report. The free camping area was quite nice, big and busy. We could even have a hot shower ($1.00 per 3min).

 

25/06/13 - Yeppoon

On the way to Rockhampton we saw some funny signs. Our favourite was : "Still a long way to go kids".

We decided to visit Yeppoon and this was a first city where we had to call more than 2 or 3 caravanning places before we could find a place to stay. We really wanted to camp at the Byfield National Park but they have some problems with computer and couldn't tell us if there are any free spots or not. So we book a place in Yeppoon and went for a drive to the NP. We drove to the Water Park Creek and  after than to the Little Five Rock Beach .

 

 

The first part  of the road to the beach was easy but after than we had to let our tyres down and  4WD the rest of the trip.

 

 

 

 

But it was worth it. It was a lovely little beach.

 

We found some interesting patterns on the sand made by crabs and sand-worms, little waterfalls and even wetland

 

 

 

 

Graham spotted some free oysters on the rocks and had a little snack. He took a picture of it in case we had to go to the hospital and show them what he had.

 

26/06/13 - Yeppoon

 

As we had no time left yesterday to see any of local beaches in Yeppoon and around, we decided to stay for one more day. There are couple of nice lookouts and walks around the town. As you can see you can enjoy the view from the lookout from different position.

One of the beach was made of those tiny shells....

We went for a drive around Emu Park to see the Singing Ship  which was built in honour of Captain Cook and his visit to the region in the 1770.

 

We had a cravings for pizza from yesterday so we went to Eagle Boys and got one for lunch. Pizza and beer on the beach, oh yeah!

 

In the afternoon we went for one more walk on the beach not to far from where we are staying and came across some different parrots.

 Graham was trying to find some more free oysters but instead we found a green turtle stacked in the shallow rock pool. It didn't look happy or comfortable in this pool so Graham rescued it by moving it back to the ocean.

 

Graham the turtle hero!