The Road to Rocky

Left Mackay on Sunday the 26^th and stopped at Sarina, about 40km down the road. We did the Sugar Shed tour. This whole area is sugar cane country and the tour was all about how sugar cane is farmed, harvested and processed. It is an eye opener if you don’t know anything about it. We also got to try their schnapps and other liqueurs and spirits and chutneys etc.

We had to wait about an hour for the tour and did not get away from Sarina till around 12.30pm. We hadn’t had lunch so decided to not try and make Rockhampton that day. Would not have made it till 5pm. Our friends and neighbours who had invited us to Strathmore Station told us about Flaggy Rock. It is about 65km past Sarina and 200 from Rocky so it was a well placed stop. For $10 there was no power and water but there was a very large area with beautiful grass, showers, toilets and a pool (although it wasn’t hot enough to have a swim).

It was a beautiful day and we were there early enough to have a sit in the sun and read. Then time for a walk between the sugar cane plantations. There were a couple of brolgas feeding out in the paddock. I heard them before I saw them with their distinctive sound.

You don’t often come across rail lines which are not electrified and are so accessible. So I thought I would rekindle a practice that I got up to with bro-n-law Ross, ie lying on the tracks or on highways around the country. This rail line was just begging to have someone lay on them.