Left Calliope, travelled through Rockhampton and headed towards Emu Park. Stayed a night at the caravan park on the water. We had wanted to go out on a 17metre cat "Funtastic" that we had been told about that the cruise went through the Keppel Islands, but on calling to book they weren't going out for at least another week, due to strong winds etc. When we arrived at Emu Park we could understand why they weren't going out the winds were strong and the water was brown, not the cystal blue colour that the locals kept tell us it is normally like.
After Emu Park went through Yeppon and onto the Capricorn Caves, north of Rockhampton. As we pulled into the Capricorn Caves entrance, Mark knew something was wrong with the clutch as he had the clutch to the floor and the bus was still moving forward. We had the maintenance guy at the cave give us some brake fluid, as the fluid levels were down slightly. We then went down to see the local mechanic, who informed us that the master cylinder was on its way out. But he thought we would be able to get the bus to Mackay.
We decided then to stay for two nights, until Sunday as there is heaps of roadworks along the Bruce Highway, due to all the recent floods and we thought there wouldn't be any roadworks on a Sunday.
The Capricorn Caves and caravan park was amazing. There is a cathedral cave where they hold weddings and opera's. Staff went out of they way to help us, amenities, camp kitchen area is great, we had fires each night down at the camp kitchen and got to met some wonderful fellow campers. We would rate the park 10/10, great spot, but the weather still isn't kind to us, overcast and rain.
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| The Capricorn Caves Capel |
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| Lorelle & Mark at the capel |
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| The bridge walk |
We took off on Sunday morning and got down into the town of The Caves and had no clutch, so yes had to call in the RAVC?RACQ, who have been fantastic. The RACQ ute came and picked up the trailers and me and Mark came back into Rockhampton with the bus on the tow truck. Not a pretty sight.
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| Our first breakdown - not a pretty sight |
The RACV were great, they arranged a taxi out to the airport to pick up a hire car and accommodation at a caravan park at Rocky.
As the bus was going to be out of action of at least a day or two we decided to check out the Koorana Crocodile Farm, which was awesome. The farm breeds for meat and skin and we both got to hold a two year old croc. Then I had to try the croc pie for lunch, which was beautiful. Back at Rocky for the night and hopefully the bus will be ready tomorrow, so we can take off to Mackay.
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| Croc at the Koorana Crocodile Farm |
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| Mark with 2 year old croc |
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| Lorelle with the croc |
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