We packed at Inskip this morning to the tuneful strains of the heavy equipment working on the road. Ants had taken the opportunity to abandon the ground flooded the other day and nest under the rope tags on the tent. Mr Raid sorted them out. It was a pretty ordered pack up.
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| The empty husk of a critter that hatched out on the tent overnight. A cicada maybe? |
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| Carlo sand blow looking towards Tin Can Bay |
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| Looking towards Double Island Point |
We headed to Rainbow Beach and up the hill to the Carlo Sand Blow named by Captain Cook after a member of his crew. By this time the wind was fairly stiff hence the reason there is no audio on the video below.
We headed to Gympie and then south along the Bruce Highway until we turned off at Caboulture and along the D'Aguilar Highway until we stopped at Woodford for a latish lunch and hot drinks. We travelled through Kilcoy and then headed southwards to Esk and then westwards towards the New England Highway before stopping at Ravensbourne in our free camp for the night. Only one other caravan here. Not a bad little free camp a bit close to the road but I think there won't be much traffic tonight.
Our Coleman stove decided to misbehave tonight. Once again it is the proprietary regulator assembly but a different part of it. The "O" ring was torn and not sealing. After a fashion I have bodgied it up with silastic gaskets. It will work ok until we pull it apart. I have a list of Coleman agents in Toowoomba which we will visit tomorrow to buy a new regulator assembly. I have seen them online for around $17. If I can't get one I will buy a new "O" ring somewhere. Cooking tonight was not helped by the fact it was windy as buggery However Susan knocked up a nice repeat Chow Mien.
Tomorrow back to civilisation i.e. an area with daylight saving time! our next hosts at Byron Bay.
night folks
Simon
Silent movie!
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