Moving Monday

Monday 12th
Saying goodbye to Bluewater Park we headed into Townsville to fill up our 4.5kg  gas cylinder and got it filled for $18. The price of these has varied a little but nothing too bad.
Still a lot of sugar cane on both sides of the road and at one point out in the paddock that had just been dug up we saw 2 Brolgas!!! On all our travelling we have only seen 3 Brolgas.
We stopped at Ayr for lunch at the big snake! Every town has a big something!

You can only see Josiah, Kimberly and Baylee  in this one. 

Zane, Josiah, Ethan and Baylee. Baylee tried going up the neck but it was a little slippery.

This big bridge was the Burdekin Bridge that goes over the Burdekin River. The latest word in our car is berderkin. It's a word we have made up and it means anything the person wants so it was funny coming across the river named that but it is probably pronounced differently.
At Gumlu there was a big watermelon and a big pumpkin!!! Just drove past them. No photo.
So making a decision to stop was a bit tricky as it wasn't very long after lunch but it was either stop early or stop quite late due to no camping spots inbetween.  We made the decision to stop early, a bit after 2pm, and we were very happy we did. The McCrory family came and introduced themselves as soon as we got to the camp spot and they were great to talk to. Again most of the time the most helpful information comes from other travellers. They are going the opposite direction to us so we swapped information and had a long talk about each others holiday so far. Kimberly quickly got to know their daughter Ella and they both had a great time talking and just having girl time which is a little absent from this family. The boys try as they sometimes let Kimberly paint their nails!!