George goes 4 WDriving

Yeppoon is a pretty place with lots of walks and a beach which apparently is crystal clear and blue usually, the fact that it currently looks like pig swill is due to the floods and continuous rain.  Did a 5.3km circuit walk on the way into Yeppoon which took us up to a lookout where we saw turtles swimming below – very cool.

Walked another track which took us past fan rocks which are the result of volcanic activity – also very cool until Tony decided kiwi needed a ‘Tony adventure’ and I stressed in case he fell off!!!!!!  Tony most definitely would have been in for an adventure then to rescue him.

hot work all this walking!!!!!

Kiwi on the edge

Saw some quite odd looking ‘structures’ in the trees – they looked like a ball made of leaves and we wondered what had made them, we were lucky enough to see another one close up and realised that it was an ants nest – Tony thought he might ‘knock on their door’ and see if anyone was home – hmmmm most certainly they were – I have told him that they will have sent the message around and will definitely be out to get their revenge (I just hope they realise I was an innocent bystander!!!!)

Thought we would go for a bit of a drive and check out the local area – Sandy Point looked as if it could be a bit of us, almost had second thoughts when we came to the off road section, but confident that George would cope we continued but things only got worse and then we got to the sign that said we could only go 20km – well that was almost laughable considering we were only going about 5km to start with, however we pushed on encouraged by the sign that said it was only 5.8km to go – an hour later with only 600m under our belt we decided that enough was enough and we turned around.

We will never know what was at the end of that road but there was some quite pretty wetlands at the beginning of the track – hmm maybe we should have stopped before we even started!!!!!

Thanks to the Lions club of Yeppoon we spent some time cooking at their very nice facility – great bbq’s, great shelter and power.

We had also noticed that during our morning and nightly cooking sessions a lot of bats were coming and going, talking to one of the locals we discovered that their ‘home’ was just down the road – so we went to check them out – 1000’s of them, smelly and noisy even though in theory they were supposed to be asleep.