GUTHALUNGRA

Leaving as early as possible from St. Lawrence to avoid the traffic jam that the motor-home club will no doubt create on the highway etc., we stopped at a little place just up the road that we had been told had the best fuel prices around and refuelled (Diesel $1.43.9). Passing through Clairview, Camilla,  Sarina and Mackay with cane growing everywhere, we stopped  for a coffee just before Mt. Ossa. Lunch was fish (mackeral) & chips at Proserpine, as we didn't go near Airlie Beach as it is too commercial etc. (like Noosa ) for us. The streets have huge sloping gutters in Proserpine, which created a problem parking "Lucky Pigs"! (photo) At the fish & chip shop we met another person from S.A. - and after chatting with her we realised that she was a cousin of a friend of ours from Waikerie! She told us they were staying at "the dam", which we didn't realise until after leaving Proserpine, was a camping ground and we should've also camped there. We kept travelling north anyway through Bowen until we found our camp for the night here at a little town 48 kms north of Bowen called Guthalungra. We did pass a nice caravan park on the O'Connell river before Proserpine, but it was too hard to turn back. Big day as we travelled 400kms total arriving here at 3.15pm.