What a lovely relaxing day we had at Rules Beach. I actually slept in until 8.30am and was totally surprised when I woke to see what the time was.

We spent the morning at the beach and what a lovely morning it was. The sun was out, not a cloud in the sky and it was 21 degrees. I did stick my feet in the water but it was way too cold for me however the boys went in and enjoyed playing in the surf.

Pa went back to camp to read his book. I stayed on the beach and started another book. Katie watched the kids and they all played, dug in the sand and sunbaked. How nice it was to feel the warm sun after the freezing weather we’ve had so far.

After lunch Katie and I spent a couple of hours planning the next week. Where to go, what to do etc. We have one week until we should be in Airlie Beach so we had a busy time finding tours that we wanted to do and accomodation that would suit the various tours.

One of the big tick items for this trip was to snorkel on the Great Barrier Reef. Unfortunately we can’t do that from Airlie Beach as they were booked out already for the whole week next week so we had to be a bit creative. Instead we are booked to go to Great Keppel Island for a tour, glass-bottom boat tour, BBQ lunch and snorkeling on Thursday. So we need to make tracks the next day so we get to Yeppoon where we will catch the Fast Cat to Great Keppel Island.

We did manage to book a day trip to Whitehaven Beach and Hill Inlet for when we are in Airlie and we are really looking forward to that.

So we had to up and ready to get on the road the next morning and get some 280km done via Gladstone and Rockhampton.