Monday, 16 June 2014

Day 91 Mackay to Rockhampton

As much as Sander wanted a hot shower this morning, he had to settle for a cold shower instead.
After packing up we drove to Sarina. 
Now that we had been driving through Sugarcane Fields for hundreds of kilometres we decided it was time to learn a bit more about this thriving crop. So we took a guided tour at the Sugar Shed Museum in Sarina.
It was actually a really nice, little tour. At the end we had the possibility to taste the actual sugar cane and some of the products made from it. The chilli/lime sauce, the coffee liquor and the fairy floss being our favourites.

From Sarina we just did a lot of driving. We stopped at a rest area just next to the Bruce Highway to spend the night. The place itself wasn’t much more then a truckstop next to a roadhouse but it was just packed with caravans, campers and vans staying for the night. We managed to find a spot and had a decent sleep that night.
On a funny note; Sander and I had camped here a few years ago. It was during the Queensland flooding of 2010 when we headed north and had just escaped Rockhampton before it flooded the next day. Back then we had the whole parking lot to ourselves!






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