Guns and Police Raids

Finally heading towards the coast and warming up - not so much the days which have been brilliant around 24 but it even made it up to 28 today - almost hot and sweaty weather. Stopped at Biloela for coffee, again heaps of young miners around and a vibrant little town and on to Mount Morgan which boasts the Dee River - the most polluted in Queensland thanks to a mine overflow in the flood this year - it'll be ok says the information centre guy - it is white and looks like you could walk on it - thats what heavy metals and acids to for a river - even looking at it hurts - I don't know how it will possibly be ok.

Anyhow we had lunch in a local park, not overlooking the river and did a quick drive around after. We found a suspension bridge that even Toni could walk across. Found the local community gardens - James you would be impressed. 

Saw the old railway station and found a lookout to see the mine - it's quite big.

That evening as we watched TV we saw a a story on Mt Morgan - while we had been there, there was a police raid and they discovered one of the largest gun caches in Queensland in Mt Morgan including semi-automatics - well that was exciting - didn't even see a thing.

So we blithely continued into Rocky and straight onto Yeppoon and then Kinka Beach Park - humongous on 150 acres, something like 100 cabins and villas, a conference centre and big heated pool. Huge sites with heaps of trees and well set up for the night. Back to the warmth of the coast.