Called into a few beaches along the way – Sarina was beautiful, Tony went for a swim while I played in the rock pools with some very pretty nemo fish. Stayed the night at a lookout and watched 26 ships waiting to be load with coal, they were still there in the morning and according to the local there have at times been up to 100 ships waiting – that would be a fairly amazing sight. Decided to continue our coal journey and left for Sarina and heading to Hay Point Port. They have a public viewing lookout and from there we could see the coal operation of the port. There are 2 coal terminals with offshore wharfs, 1 stretches 1.8km out to see and the other an impressive 3.85km. Together they handle 130m tonnes of coal each year which is brought into the port via trains over 2km in length – quite an impressive operation, and one which Tony really enjoyed seeing.
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