Oh boy are we enjoying the relative cool. This evening we are even able to leave the windows open without screens - no flies and a lovely cool breeze.
We got up early this morning and had a good look around Bowen. Being on the beach, it has many interesting beaches and bays, a very large harbour and the view from Flagstaff Hill was excellent. The hill overlooks the town of Bowen, its boat harbour, its commercial harbour Port Denison, the northern islands of the Hinchinbrook Island Group and points north as well. There are a couple of videos below taken from the hill.
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| 281116 Rose Bay, Bowen |
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| 281116 Grays Bay, Bowen |
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281116 Looking towards Yasso Point from
Grays Bay, Bowen take 1 |
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| 281116 Looking towards Yasso Point from Grays Bay Bowen take 2 |
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| 281116 Exercising on surfboards at Horseshoe Bay, Bowen |
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| 281116 Exercising on surfboards at Horseshoe Bay, Bowen |
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281116 An interesting rock structure looking northwest
from Flagstaff Hill |
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| 281116 Bowen Boat Harbour from Flagstaff Hill |
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281116 Bowen Harbour with Bowen in the background
from Flagstaff Hill |
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| 281116 Tug returning to Bowen's Port Denison |
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281116 Tug from Abbott Point returning to
Bowen's Port Denison |
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| 281116 Looking north Flagstaff Hill |
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281116 The Hinchinbrook Islands Group from
Flagstaff Hill, Bowen
Video (1) from Flagstaff Hill
Video (2) from Flagstaff Hill |
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| 281116 Looking south from Yasso Point, Bowen |
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| 281116 Looking north from Yasso Point, Bowen |
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| 281116 Bowen township |
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| 281116 More of Bowen township |
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| 281116 The Big Mango at the Bowen Information Centre |
We followed the sugar cane fields and the ever present Great Dividing Range southwards.
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| 281116 Sugar cane near Proserpine |
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| 281116 More sugar cane, more mountains |
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| 281116 More sugar cane, more mountains |
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| 281116 More sugar cane, more mountains |
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| 281116 More sugar cane near Proserpine |
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| 281116 Irrigating sugar cane - maybe a blow out? |
We resisted the temptation to take the turnoffs into Airlie Beach, Shute Harbour, Mackay and Hay Point. The heading home wind was at our back all day.
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| 281116 The Mackay bypass |
We did pass through Proserpine and Sarina of course.
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| 281116 The town of Proserpine |
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| 281116 Proserpine sugar Mill |
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281116 The Pioneer River near Proserpine
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| 281116 Coming into Sarina |
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| 281116 The Sarina Station out front |
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| 281116 The Sarina Station platform |
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| 281116 The Sucrogen Plane Creek sugar mill at Sarina |
On the advice of our host at the Caravan park last night, we decided to stop over at Cape Palmerston, an isolated caravan park near the beach. We will take a look at its surrounds tomorrow.
We "destroyed" a tyre on the caravan trying to move around a tight Woolworths car park. Replacing it in the carpark and finding a tyre service centre for a new tyre left us both red faced. Well, it was rather hot in the sun. Felt rather strong though. We held up the traffic in three directions as we reversed out of the car park.
We did see some unusual wild flowers up on Flagstaff Hill in Bowen. The tree and its closeup were photographed at Horseshoe Bay.
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| 281116 Never seen one of these before |
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| 281116 Unusual flowers/blossoms/fruit? |
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