| The Big Mango Information Centre at Bowen |
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| Bowen harbour full of boats |
We spent some time in Bowen,walking along the almost deserted Queens beach, and visiting the Market listening to the live music. We then drove around the harbour area and onto Airlie Beach which was extremely busy.The only place we found to park was a carpark in the closed National Parks office, so we decided to have our lunch there as it was a nice area. I took some photos from the car as we drove along and through Proserpine and then to Bloomsbury rest area where we stayed the night.
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| Bowen |
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| Bowen |
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| High rise apartments at Airlie Beach |
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| Bloomsbury Rest Area |
We continued on from our overnight stop at Bloomsbury and decided to change our plans again and to head north to Herberton as this little town was on our original plan to visit the Historical Village there which we had heard was well worth a visit. So Plan B saw us heading back up towards Townsville. We passed through Home Hill and bypassed the main part of Townsville and onto Ingham.
The traffic was busy throughout the day and the rest areas were crowded so we continued on to Rollingstone where we stayed overnight at the Bushy Parker Park.
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| Home Hill, Steel Cathedral type bridge over the Burdekin River |
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| Bushy Parker overnight stop, Rollingstone |
We left the Bushy Parker Park overnight stop and headed to Ingham, Cardwell and Tully.
Ingham is a small town in the sugar cane area and at this time of year they were harvesting the cane and loading onto the cane trains.
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| Near Ingham |
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| Cardwell |
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| Banana plantation |
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| Haughton River near Townsville |
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| Sugar cane |
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| Cane train at Ingham |
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| Sugar cane train |
Tully was our next stop, where we did some grocery shopping and then got stuck behind some trucks, and a detour because of an accident found us on a different road to what our GPS was telling us but we continued on hoping to end up in Herberton, but we ended up in Ravenshoe about 30 km from where we wanted to be. We checked our map (the old fashioned type) and ignored our GPS and eventually got into Herberton.
As we had booked this caravan park the day before, we were able to set up straight away in this pretty little park in a beautiful bush setting.
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| Herberton caravan park |
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| Wild River Caravan Park, Herberton |
Some interesting scenery you have been enjoying, thanks for sharing with us.
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