Rick and Rae's Travels: Fri, 4th to Sun, 6th Nov

The wind finally died down and we woke to a beautiful day ... what a shame we had programmed to leave Hervey Bay and continue south. We drove about 30kms to Maryborough and decided to have a look around this lovely town. We went into the visitors' centre just in time to catch a one hour bus tour of the town leaving at 10am. Maryborough has many beautiful old buildings and queenslander homes and the tour also took us past where a lot of Queensland's trains are manufactured. We also learned on the tour about Helen Lyndon Goff who was born in Maryborough in 1899 and adopted P. L. Travers as her literary by-line. P.L Travers was the creator of the character Mary Poppins.

After the tour we drove about another 90kms to a roadhouse about 20kms from Gympie, now owned by one of Rick's old school-mates. From there we drove to Tin Can Bay and checked into the Top Tourist Caravan Park there.

Saturday was another sunny and warm day. We went for a 30km drive to Inskip Point where we heard there was an excellent low-cost camping area. Inskip Point is the closest point for catching a ferry to Fraser Island. Being a weekend, the whole area was packed with campers and we discovered it was really far too sandy for us to risk taking in our van. On the way back, we stopped in at Rainbow Beach and had a nice lunch at the Surf Life Saving Club. In the afternoon we went to the boatramp back at Tin Can Bay and fished for a couple of hours. We didn't have any luck in catching anything, but it was a nice way to spend a few hours. In the evening Rick caught up with his school-mate again.

On Sunday morning we caught up with the grocery shopping again. When we returned, we found the concrete slab at our site absolutely covered with duck poo! The ducklings are very cute, especially when the whole family was having a drink from our leaking tap. We fished again in the afternoon on Snapper Creek, but once again had to settle for spaghetti on toast for dinner.