Leaving Rockhampton for Mackay

We awoke to rain.We debated as to whether we would stay another day, as we hate having to pack up when its   wet. However the gods were kind to us and by 7.30 the sun came out and it wasn't long before everything was quite dry. We have it all down to a fine art now and having had our breakfast and showers we pulled out at 9.15.
Tom Tom read out was 320 kms and indicated we should arrive by about 2pm without any stops factored in.
               As we had to drive some distances where there very few places to stop for fuel we stopped at the BP Marlborough just after 10 am.to fill up. It had now started to rain which meant that we just had to pull over around 11 am for our coffee stop which we had made before we left this morning along with our lunch.Having to stay in the car I was unable to stretch my legs which is something I like to do every few hours on a long drive. As we continued on the sun came out and the blue sky appeared. Lunch was at a truck stop under the shade of some trees.
The 300 stretch of road was mainly through cane fields and some cattle grazing areas, the only real excitement was when we were confronted by a police car coming at us on our side of the road with its headlights full on and its lights flashing.As I slowed up I had to move over to the grass edge whilst he came alongside me and stopped. By this time other traffic behind me was also pulling over to the side as we could now see what it was all about.

The policeman explained that we should pull over more as coming our way was a truck carry a very wide load that took most of the road up. As it passed we could see it was some kind of generator which had we been travelling along normally would have wiped us off the road. The two or three police cars were continuing travelling ahead of it clearing the way.
The journey on through Sarina to Mackay the( sugar capital of Australia )we decided to go up to the northern beaches and stay at Blacks Beach where we stayed when we passed through this way last year. Its  right on the beach and only a 15 minutes drive out of Mackay.