Tuesday, August 08, 2006

Childhood remembrances

After an overnight stop in Gladstone (not the highlight of the trip), we headed on to Rockhampton and Yeppoon - where I had spent childhood holidays.

Given the caving people that we are, we took the opportunity to walk through Capricorn Caves. Blah, blah... "a unique system of above-ground caves " ...blah blah...
I wasn't personally all that impressed with it. What was interesting, though, was seeing the old bridges and tunnels that the guano (bat poo) miners used.

From there we headed East to the little seaside township of Yeppoon. My most favourite thing in the region is the Singing Ship at Emu Park. You won't necessarily find it on tourist brochures - probably because it is free,m so no-one makes any money off it. But at dawn and dusk:
it is absolutely gorgeous.

And special thanks to DM, who put us up at his mansion in Yeppoon. The afternoon previously there had been a flurry of SMS's between DM and I, as I updated him on the traffic jam, the accident, etc, etc. Sorry we arrived a day late - circumstances beyond our control :(

DM introduced us to Radio NAG, where he is a presenter. Unfortunately we didn't get to hear any of his shows, because NAG don't pod cast or have an on-line broadcast yet - unlike our station RRR. Don't worry NAG - you'll get there.

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