Bundaberg & Agnes Water/1770

doggies waiting for Dave

attending to the chooks

We were in Bundaberg for about 3.5 weeks and we had a great time with Reisha & Peter at Dragonfly Ridge. Our first Wwoofing spot!

feeding the chooks

  

taking labels off jars, with help off the chooks

shelves Dave & I built (& they're straight!!)

sunset over Burnett River

We also explored Hervey Bay and the coastal towns between there and Bundaberg. Some pretty little places full of tea tree and banksias. Hervey Bay was a pretty big place and it had one of the longest piers I’ve ever seen. Dave spent the length of it with his head over the side looking for fish!

We kept on going back to Bargara, a coastal town 20 minutes from Bundaberg, we both really liked that place. Eating lunch at a nice café looking over the water….aaaaaaahhh. We also went to Mon Repos beach which was lovely, from November onwards turtles come onto the beach there and lay their eggs.

Bargara to the right

Bargara to the left

view from Mon Repos beach

After Bundy we headed for Agnes Water and have been to the beaches of the area and of Seventeen Seventy (1770). After Captain Cook's first landing in Botany Bay in 1770, he then landed further up the QLD coast at the spot they now call 1770, the birthplace of Queensland. There is a Museum in the town of Agnes Water, near the Information Centre, and it has so much on the history of Captain Cook and lots of other little goodies, and for $3 entry fee, a lovely time was had by all.

These are beautiful coastal towns that are on the verge – still have great little beach shacks around the place but unfortunately ‘housing estates’ are slowly moving in (boo hiss).

our first concrete slab caravan site (oooooh-oooh)

yes, views are a thumbs up Dave!

We went for a walk on the Red Rock Trail, which started at Reedy Creek Reserve on the beach and went along the coast for a few k’s. There were some delightful little beaches hidden away as you rounded a bluff and in amongst the rocky outcrops near the water were little and big rock pools waiting to be explored. Being a very sunny day and the grass of long length, Dave found himself a wacking stick to thwack the grass and hopefully scare any snakes away – must of worked because we didn’t see any, phew!

view from 1770

beach all to ourselves 

on our Red Rock Trail
We left Agnes Water yesterday and have made it to Lake Awoonga, just outside of Gladstone. Car being looked at tomorrow due to some over heating issues :( , but hopefully all shall be fixed and all good again :)  Silver lining is that Lake Awoonga is beautiful and a lovely place to be stuck.