Not much to blog today - we covered 400k as quickly as possible passing over the Tropic of Capricorn once again. This time - about 6 weeks later - it co-incided with a Tourist Information Point in Rockhampton; a large city we decided to bypass and the weather is far less hot. We had lunch at the first point in 500k in which the ocean can be seen from the A1 road - or so the PR people said.
Rob found a lovely site at Cape Palmerston which was a short walk from a deserted beach and the owner gave us some passion fruit straight his garden for breakfast. Unfortunately although the beaches no long have surf waves (due to the Great Barrier Reef off the coast) they do now have poisonous jelly fish (or stingers) so swimming is not encouraged.
The sugar cane continues so see photo below - a lot of it is now made into fuel rather than rum!! Rockhampton is also famous for beef cattle and so we have seen several trucks containing cattle on the road
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