Sunday / Monday Hervey Bay - Airlie Beach

On Sunday after lunch we had almost 900 km to go to Airlie Beach and we had to do it over 2 days as the "highway" in Australia is only 1 lane and quite often interupted by little towns so we can only do an avergae of 70 km an hour.

Our stop over was Rockhampton and the only thing we can remember are the big main streets with motels everywhere. Because of the lights and the colors of the motels every main street looks like a street with strip clubs.

Monday morning we headed to Airlie Beach and it started to rain. At the petrol station staff informed us that the road to Airlie Beach was closed but we took the guess.... We had rain and more rain but sometimes it was possible to see a bit of the beautiful scenery and hills through the clouds and rain. The road to Airlie Beach was not closed, only flooded. We drove the Wicked through 30 cm. of water and were right on time because later that day they closed the entire highway.

Every state in Australia has a slogan on their licence plate, the slogan for Queensland is "The sunshine state" but we wanna put in a change request for "The rain state" or "The sugar cane state". For most of our journey we have seen huge cane sugar plantations and has been raining.