Hervey Bay to Warwick via Maroochydore: 18-19/10

We heard last night that my uncle Jim had died on Monday  afternoon, unfortunately we ear still too far away to make it home for the funeral.
On our way from Hervey Bay we turned off to River Heads and had a look at where the Barge leaves to transport you to Fraser Island......perhaps another trip!!!!!!

If you can't back you can't go to Fraser Island!!!!!!!!

 

 

 

We travelled down the coast through Marborough and Gympie and then along the Sunshine Coast looking for sunshine but without much luck. We eventually stopped at Maroochydore at the Coconut Tree Caravan Park. We were camped very close to the water and it was a beautiful place to spend the night.....lots of friendly neighbours. Only downside was trying to get into the shower and toilet block when someone needed their husband to put in the code.
The water was full of kite surfers when we arrived, but they had all gone when we took the photo.

Where is the warm water?

We reluctantly left Maroochydore planning to reach Tenterfield but road diversions meant we had to go out of our way. They did take us past the Glasshouse Mountains.....so we stopped off to have a look. The pictures aren't very clear as the rain was coming in.

We also heard that there had been massive rains in far north Queensland and many of the tracks we had been on  were now flooded and impassable. Cairns alone had over 200mm in twenty four hours.......a week later up north and we would have had to stay put for a while.
We continued on and came to roadworks where you could only pass on the hour southbound and on the half hour northbound........these finally put paid to getting to Tenterfield. We revised our plans and with the help of our trusty ipad put in new directions.
We went down through Esk and Toowoomba to Warwick where we found a very quiet caravan park to spend the night......our neighbours came from Warrnambool(it's a small world)
Warwick is the home of Rodeo.....so they told us. We missed the big rodeo by two weeks.