Rockhampton to Chinchilla

 We have had a lovely rest day here at Gracemere - which sounds like Gracelands but is really just a suburb of Rockhampton. We are in this great park which is very green and pretty with trees and birds. We are camped on lovely soft green grass which is a luxury!  There is a new shopping centre just down the road which was perfect for us as Dennis saw a Dr there (he has been struggling with a cough for a while) and Tops and I attended to some beauty therapy!  It was nice to have a rest day. We did a tour of Rockhampton and the city centre looks like it's struggling a bit with many empty shops. But there are lots and lots of shopping centres out from the city. 

We have some very different lunch spots - one day it's a lorikeet visiting at a beach side stop

      

and another day it's wood cutting way out back!

Now we are on our way to Dalby - famous cos that's where Dennis and Peter were born. We decided to leave the coast as the Bruce highway is busy and we are on the Leichhardt  highway going through some very funny places such as Banana where we had morning tea. Not a banana in sight but the name came from a yellow bullock called Banana! 

After carrying fuel for 7,000 km Darryl, as tour leader today, decided to not worry about refuelling at Rockhampton, but to get down the road with no towns in sight and use the emergency fuel. Turns out there was a station not far down the road anyway! 

The things you see on the road - the old Fords towing camper trailers had Dennis pretty happy. They are heading to WA for a rally from McKay so not a bad trip. 

 

    

       

Darryl's  pretty upset at the minute as he's over his data limit plus some extra he bought and despite trying to work it out with Telstra, they insist he used 1.2gb in 90 mins of normal usage! (That's checking messages, FB & reading newspaper) So in protest he's turned his iPad and phone off till Monday when new months data resumes! And I have to publish this as quickly as I can using my phone hotspot! 

 

We won't get to Dolby today so are heading to Chinchilla  weir - a free camp site.

Must hurry - love to all xxxxx