Mon, 31st October to Tues, 1st Nov - Burnett Heads

We packed up and left Agnes Water by 9:30am, and drove into Tyrepower in Bundaberg.  The trip was awful due to bad roads and even worse drivers.  We booked the Navara in for 8:30am the following morning and headed off to look for somewhere suitable to stay.  Bundaberg is inland so we headed about 12kms to Burnett Heads which is on the coast.

We found a park near the marina and checked in for two nights.  Our site had some nice shrubs between our awning and the empty site next door.  I commented to Rick about how nice and private our site was.  Within ten minutes some workmen came along with chainsaws and cut the shrubs down to only 2 feet high ... so much for privacy!!  The park owner commented later that they had really cut the shrubs too short ... he said he had asked for them to be trimmed down to his head height so he could reach the tops. The wind really started to blow later in the afternoon and those shrubs would have given us a bit of a wind-break.  Never mind ... we put up with the wind and walked up the street to have a look around.  We didn't find anything much, just a supermarket and pub. We had now been on the road for about 8 and a half months and had covered around 28,000kms.

On Tuesday we got up early and drove into Bundaberg.  Rick dropped me off at a shopping centre while he went on to Tyrepower.  After the tyres had been fitted and Rick had picked me up, we had lunch and then went for a drive around.  We drove through Coral Cove, Burgara and Innes Park where there were some beautiful big homes right on the beach.  The beaches are very rocky but quite pretty.  We continued on to Elliott Heads where we parked and watched the wind surfers while we listened to the Melbourne Cup.

The beach at Elliott Heads

Windsurfers at Elliott Heads