Stayed overnight at a small park at Carmila. Left this morning after shaking as much water/condensation from the awning as I could before rolling it away. Park was behind the local 24hr roadhouse and about equi-distant from the railway line. The amenities block was clean and the water "sweet." We didn't hear trains or traffic through the night and so both slept soundly. This morning, took a short drive to Carmila beach where there is a boat ramp and bush camp. We saw a guy with rod and lure in hand heading down to the river where the tide was rushing in. On to Mackay that has grown quite a bit in twenty eight years. Called at the Tourist Information place at City Gates and moved through to find the park. Mackay has developed probably beyond its residential capacity, as have a great number of Queensland towns. Grown from the point of view that units, cabins,flats, and in a lot of cases, any vacant land within that controlled by the caravan parks, are heavily booked by miners/ coal seam gas explorers and, as such, the demeanour of the place has suffered. The large shopping centre at Caneland was busy but as we both said, not a lot of people in the shops....
We both look forward to catching up with another old friend tomorrow and won't be sorry to be leaving Mackay.
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