Another great nights sleep after a good meal at the motel last night. The one disadvantage of staying at a motel with a restaurant is that they don’t supply a toaster or cutlery or plates, they want you to buy their stuff!! Therefore we forewent the the toast this morning and had bread and jam. At least the bread has substance to it compared with the aerated stuff we get at home.
We continued eastbound after breakfast through miles of even more nothingness than previous days, for miles it was just scrub land with no crops or grazing. Even geocaches were not to be found. We tried one geocache and all I got was quite a shock as when I moved a piece of bark on a tree this thing dove out.
We think it was a huntsman spider, evidently it’s not particularly venomous, but an ice pack and medical assistance is recommended if you do get bit.
There were plenty of kangaroos and wallabies, unfortunately they were all horizontal and not moving😢. We did have some success in the cream cake department; reasoning that Australia closes down on Sundays itwas best to ensure we got a cake today.
We had a late lunch, that’s when we found out that the shutters go down at 2PM on a Saturday, we finally found some found at a petrol station on the Bruce. Talking of petrol, prices inland and up north peaked between $1.65-$1.70 / litre, they are now back to ~$1.40.
After lunch we headed off to the town of 1770 (that’s right it’s numbers not letters for the town name), so called because Cpt. Cooke discovered the place in 1770. We got about 10k along the road and saw a lot of smoke ahead, another brush fire. This one was different in that the smoke was drifting across the road reducing visibility. There were a couple of cars stopped on the road and a firefighter was explaining that they were dealing with an accident just passed the fire, once that was sorted they would work on the fire so there would be an unknown delay if we wanted to go that route. We opted to skip 1770 and route direct to our destination.
Our re-planned route took us down the Bruce to Gin Gin (we didn’t stop to sample any drinks) where we headed off towards the coast. We finally made the motel around 4PM.
The motel is one block from the coast so we took a walk along the beach to get in some much needed exercise, and a couple of geocaches.
Tomorrow we continue southbound, and tomorrow night will be our last motel night.