Day 3 Yeppoon to Gundiah

We left the Beachside Caravan Park at around 8.00 am and at the first roundabout we passed another Active Camper.  We both gave each other a big wave and later on the facebook page we acquainted ourselves with each other.  The Active Camper group is such a great community and it is the only group that I follow on Facebook.  We get heads up information about the best places to stay and camp across the whole of Australia.

Our first port of call as we headed into Rockhampton was to purchase a Broadband USB stick for my laptop.  I have been using my mobile phone as a “hotspot” but it is very slow and if I want to continue to update the blog it was a necessary purchase.  So far it is great.

Today our destination is “Evergreen” at Gundiah.  Our son and DIL have a magnificent property here.  As we left Rockhampton the sky was quite gloomy but a beautiful temperature to be driving.  We stopped at the Calliope River Rest Area for lunch and found a lovely shady tree to park under.  We took our time over lunch eventually hitting the road again around 1.30 pm.

The gloomy skies darkened and just north of Maryborough we ran into some very heavy rain.  I was driving at the time and slowed right down to 60kmh as visibility on the busy A1 was extremely low.  Everyone did exactly the same thing so it made it safer for everybody.

We finally arrived at Evergreen at 4.30 pm and after greeting the family we made our way to the lake to set up camp.  It is such a pretty spot and just teeming with birdlife.  It is a photographers dream and I am very pleased that I brought the SLR with me. 

We went back up to the house to meet Marco and Suzie who then drove us the short distance to where the chooks were camping so that we could put them into the old caravan for the night.  We were once again introduced to the Maremmas (guardian dogs) but they seemed to remember us from last time as they came right up to us for a pat.

It is always lovely to catch up with family and we sat outside and talked the night away over some delicious nibblies.  We eventually headed back to our camp as the air had turned rather chilly and us north Queenslanders are not used to that. 

As soon as our heads hit the pillow we were asleep.