6th, Yeah for Yeppoon, this is one beautiful place for a holiday, I just wish it wasn't stinger season the beaches here are to die for but at the moment I just look along with everyone except the foolhardy.
7th, we had a bit of a rest today and just explored the town, and surrounding beaches, found an icecream shop, one of the nice places is Emu Park there is a monument there for Captain Cook that is a very cleverly design of a ship that makes music, it is called the singing ship, we also booked the car in for a service for Monday.
8th, fishing was on the agenda today but the wind had come up over night and the water was not a pretty site. The Byfield National Park is not very far from Yeppoon and we had visited it 12 years ago, it has great beaches for fishing from so we decided to take our lunch and go there for the day. One thing we never thought of was when we came here before it was just after the wet seasonal, the road goes up over a very big sand dune, it seems to wind on forever and is very steep, when we originally went there the wet season had packed the sand down and there was no one else there, this time time there was approx 100 cars some with trailers trying to do it, what a mess. We got stuck approx half way up so we got out and with the help of people in front and behind us we got going again, as we neared the top there was huge holes dug out and we kept bottoming out when we got stuck again we decided to turn around, get out of the way of people trying to get up, with 16 inch wheels we never had enough clearance. There was a young couple with a landcruiser trying to tow a small tinnie, he kept getting stuck so we helped them work there way to the top with digging and his maxtrax when we got close enough to the top another vehicle hooked on and pulled him over the top. We walked back to our car as more cars came racing up, one trying to pull a camper trailer, it got stuck, we looked at each other and said no, we took off pretty fast. When we got to the bottom and was pumping the tyres we were talking to a couple who go up there every weekend, there is a little township up there and her parents live there. The couple told us what makes it bad there is some young locals jack up there 4wds put large wheels on and try to see how far they can get in 2WD, hence they dig a lot of holes.
9th, took the boat out today the water didn't look too bad that is till we got out there, its frustrating we could see mackerel about and it was too rough to get over to Kepple Island to the fishing spot we wanted. We travelled approx 1/3 way to the island and decided to drift over a shoal, we hadn't long got our lines down and Merv had a spotted mackerel, undersized but at least it was a start. I had taken a quell but myself and Merv were both feeling off, it was impossible to stand up. We pulled our lines put on a lure and trolled in, I was thinking I was a woose but when we got in there where quite a few others that had beaten us and a couple of guys said it was much to rough for fishing. Two of the guys that where there told us to be careful when bringing the car back as they had a new ford ranger 2 days before, backed it back too far, got onto green slime and it just kept sliding down off the ramp into the marina, the coast Guard had already warned us. That night we tried off the beach as we had plenty of bait, didn't even get a bite.
10th, had the car in for the 40,000 service and a new tyre. We wandered around town waiting, 5 hours then back to the park for a swim in the pool
I have realized too late that I didn't take any photos of the beautiful beaches.
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