YEPPOON

It's a miserable days driving out of Hervey Bay. We make it 400k north but it's lots of stopping and starting as many improvements are being made along the pacific highway, great if your planning on using the road in a years time, not so great at the moment. Although the building works and machinery make for good photos in the rain. A little beaten by the arduous monotony of the stretch we call it a day just outside Rockhampton (the beef capital of Australia, which could perhaps explain the pasty fiasco). 

Yeppoon is a half hour detour but the road is stunning. Coming into Queensland we've now lost an hour as we realise when at six thirty it's almost dark, the rain hasn't let off all day. We manage to pull into a beachside park exhausted and agitated just before the sky empties completely. And its Tuesday night again. Yeppoon is almost a pretty bog-standard, beachy place except the beach itself is incredibly long and sweeping and thick, surreal clouds stack high and gather around the rim of the valley basin atop hillsides framing the dominantly hot-blue sky and loom over little Yeppoon like the taunting stalls of a Roman amphitheatre. It also has LOADS of charity shops and as we've now cleared out just about all our junk we have a little room to acquire more. A perfect place to spend a Wednesday.