Hervey Bay to Agnes Waters 26th May

Woke up to a beautiful morning after the rain of yesterday. Not a cloud in the sky and with the sun drying out our canvas covers we were able to pack up the Jayco. At 9.15 am we pulled out of the Australiana C.P with Tom Tom set for Agnes Waters. Not a long drive today as we only had 250 k's to do making our arrival around 2.30 without any stops. Having decided not to go into Bundaberg we headed for Childers where we would stop for our coffee. The country side looked good with it all looking quite green as a result of the rain that had fallen recently. The cane fields now appeared to be the main crops we saw with the sugar industry being the main employer of the local work force.

We drove through Childers as we had spent a few days here around about the same time on our trip last year. We pulled over not long after to stop at a freebie overnight travellers stop for our morning break. Here we chatted to a family of Mum & Dad and 2 daughters 10 & 8 who had been on the road for 5 months and intended to make it a year of travelling around the country. The girls were doing their 3 hours of schooling with Mum being the school mistress. Dad (Steve) was very interested in our X-trail as he had a similar car and was keen to know how we found it handled the work load pulling a caravan. We could only give a good report as we really hadn't had any problems, which made him feel much more confidant about his car, which he also found to be up to the job. Bidding our farewells we continued on to Gin Gin for next our next stop.

Here we visited the tourist information bureau to pick up some more recent maps and info about the region.

Not long after we pulled into Agnes Waters and checked in and finding a site a 100 mtrs from the beach. Probably a little bit too commercial for us, however we wanted to be near somewhere we could watch the State of Origin game in the evening.

Enough said, we lost and being in the heart of the Queenslanders it was in good humour that they gave it to us with their whistles and hoots whenever they scored. Still in was good fun and Beatrice even managed to down a few schooners of beer and actually (enjoyed) watching the game.