Capricorn Caves and Agnes Water
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Monday 25 September 2006
The Capricorn Caves and Agnes Water
South again to all those places we spotted on the way up but could not stop at.
First port of call was the Capricorn Caves just north of Rockhampton, discovered by a Norwegian and now privately owned. They are all above ground in a huge limestone outcrop.
We stayed on site and the camping is good, cheap, very tidy with clean toilets and showers. The next morning was hot and being in large limestone caves was like having air-conditioning, lovely and cool. The guide for the tour was Jason a young local lad who is clearly not fazed by the dark and is certainly not claustrophobic in the slightest. A very interesting hour and a half worth doing just to get out of the heat. Oh yeah, if you don’t like bats or snakes or spiders they do a Devon Cream tea in the restaurant!
We continued south to the next recommended destination 1770 and Agnes Water, on the way we stopped and had a chat with the local authorities! It was not that interesting and soon made good headway! We arrived at 1770 it was gorgeous long deserted sandy beaches and we thought this was ideal.
However our tummies were rumbling so we thought we should grab a bite, no such luck everything was shut and no one could even help with suggesting where food could be found, we searched and came up with a Kebab house that could make us 2 tuna melts @ $5 each ’crikey’ go for it, oh no after an agonising wait of at least 20 minutes they turned up without the tuna melt bit? So a short conversation soon had them understanding the error of their ways, however another brief 20 min wait saw the worst tuna melt in history of shit sandwiches.
Ok forget the beauty and tranquillity lets hit the road, so we refuelled and drove to Hervey Bay we found a really nice clean campsite after an hour or so and we are still here, tomorrow we will be whale watching and will fill you in as to our luck.
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