Time to pack up and bid farewell to Hervey Bay. Nick kicked the day off with another run, I got the kids up and started the pack. As per usual WW3 broke out when the packing commenced, with Em and Lachie tearing each other apart over the green truck Christine and Grandad got for Lachie.
We paid one last trip to the beach to race up and down the sand with the truck and look for hermit crabs and starfish. Unfortunately the tide was too far in so no luck. Em has started asking questions about why the tide goes in and out….time to google me thinks.
After picking up our obligatory trailer sticker of Hervey Bay we headed towards 1770. We travelled via Childers, home to the Backpacker fire that killed 15 backpackers back in 2000. We did a brief coffee stop, got a few marshmallows for the kids and kept on going.
A few hours later and hurrah, we are back on the coast at a spot called 1770, with the town of Agnes Waters just down the road. This was the first landing spot of Captain Cook in Queensland in 1770 (surprise), and hence the cool town name. It has been labeled “the new Noosa”, but being a little harder to get to get to.
Our new camp ground is fabulous – compared to that of Hervey Bay. It is a bush setting, about 1km outside 1770, and is quiet. We decided to trial the annex without walls which went well until half way through dinner when it started to bucket rain. Dinner was ditched in the panic of getting the annex walls up and the rain continued….sigh, here’s hoping for a dry night.
Nick spotted and squashed a couple of cane toads so we are well are truly hitting their territory now. Yucks –will have to watch my step at night and remember to always wear havvies!
I think you need Grandad to help kill the canetoads! xx
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