After our trip to 1770 we headed towards Mackay, stopping overnight at Carmilla Beach. We stayed at a free rest stop right on the beach. At low tide it was a desert and at high tide the waves were lapping at the walkway. We stayed long enough to do some exploring along the beach and Lee had a go at fishing, with no results. We headed off at lunchtime towards Mackay, arriving there at 4pm we decided to keep heading onwards to Bowen. We arrived in Bowen at about 7pm and headed straight to a friend's house. Scott, Mel and their lovely kids invited us to park the van on their driveway while we are in town, which is great; thanks guys.
We arrived here on Sunday night, yesterday we had a look around town, not much here, great skatepark on the foreshores though! Kids had a ball. Went out for dinner at one of the pubs with scott and Mel and had an awesome feed. Rib steak on the bone smothered in prawns in garlic cream sauce, I had a prawn and scallop pasta and there was more seafood in it then pasta! Very yum and totally unexpected for such a small town.
Tuesday: Today we borrowed Scott's tinny and headed down to Airlie Beach, postcard beautiful. We headed out from the boatramp and wove our way along the edges of nearby islands fishing. I caught a golden trevally, parrot fish, coral trout and a flathead. Lee spent most of the day driving, untangling, desnagging and rerigging either me, the kids or himself and as a result caught bugger all!! Soon he will teach me how to rig up myself so he has more time to fish!
We saw 5 turtles throughout the day, they were everywhere. Once we got hungry we headed across the bay to Long Island and pulled up into a deserted little beach to have a picnic, then it was back in the boat throwing lures again. We worked our way along the edge of Long Island and came to the Long Island Resort. We were pretty thirsty from all that work reeling in fish so we pulled into the beach and anchored the boat and headed ashore to the resort bar on the beach. We sat back admiring the view and having a cold beer, then decided because no one seemed to care that we were there we might as well experience the resorts amenities and hopped into the spa. Of course it has ocean views so we kicked back and relaxed watching the sun dip in the distance. We finally had to drag ourselves out to avoid heading home in the dark.
All up a great day. Didn't get too many photos of the area but will be heading back down again in a few days.
Check out the photos by clicking on this link.
https://picasaweb.google.com/100249554386212106658/OnTheRoadAugust2011?authkey=Gv1sRgCIeK_JH3r_GZqwE
https://picasaweb.google.com/100249554386212106658/AirlieBeachAugust2011?authkey=Gv1sRgCJOb4u-Mk-a3Bg
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