Southward Ho!

21 and 22 April

Very quickly, it becomes apparent that campervanning (is that a word?) your way around Australia is simultaneously liberating and restricting. You are free to go anywhere, to your own timescale and your accommodation is always ready and waiting when you've had enough of driving. However, finding a safe, legal campsite can sometimes tie you down to places away from cities or areas of interest.

We'd already bitten the bullet and decided to take 'the road less travelled' in Australia, creating our own route from Cairns to Sydney to take in some good walking-country and more 'naturey' (did I just make up another word?)pursuits. The downside of this is that to get to the places we really wanted to see, some days would have to be sacrificed to relatively intensive driving. By Sharon. Wuss that I am, I can't drive.

Thus, on Friday 21, we left Proserpine and just kept going until we found a place we liked the look of to camp at. That place was Marlborough, and as luck would have it the campsite was behind the local hotel (pub) in this tiny town.

By Saturday 22 we appeared to have left the bad weather behind, and another few hours driving brought us to our chosen campsite beside the scenic Lake Monduran.

Apparently the lake supplies the water for the Bundaberg region and hence its rum distillery, but for the moment we were still content to sample Australia's wine.

I'll leave you with the sunset over the lake: