Gladstone

Hi youse guys.

Annie and I are packing up for the town of 1770 this morning. After we left Rockhampton we drove to Tannum Sands.

I had called in there about 25yrs ago and expected it to be the same. (What a fool!)

What was once a really small little seaside holiday town is now suffering the worst form of brick venerial disease. Absolutely overun by little boxes made of ticky-tacky, along with all the infrastructure, as they call it.

A learning experience for Annie and I though. Never to expect it to be like it was.

The caravan park which boasted sea frontage was divided from the sea by a road and thick mangroves. Very dissapointing.So we headed back to Gladstone.

It seems all the seaside caravan parks are falling victim to greedy developers.

So here we are in Gladstone,an amazingly small town, ( unless we didn't really see it all, though we didn't really try ) Very drab and ordinary.

Annie and I fitted straps to the van so we could roll up the awnings instead of threading them through the sail track each time. ( see picture ).

The town of 1770 boasts a van park with absolute beach frontage, so we hope that''s the case. If that fails we will head to Agnes Waters.