Updat from Yeppoon

We began our holiday/adventure on Thursday and had an uneventful trip to Rockhampton and on to the Big 4 Capricorn Palms Holiday Village at Mulambin, approx 8Kms south of Yeppoon.

The caravan park is quite good with very few campers at the moment, which suits us down to the ground.

The beaches here are muddy sand and the beaches are very flat and I would think you would have to walk about 300 metres out to get water knee deep. We went for a walk along the beach on Saturday afternoon but apart from that haven’t done much. 

Along the beach was quite interesting as you could see where the lava had flowed over the existing rocks which happened a few years ago, a few years in dinosaur years.

We went to the Capricorn Caves yesterday, Monday, which was very interesting. The caves have 1 hour guided tours which are well worth the $29 admittance. The caves are limestone caves and are dry caves which means the only water entering is during the rainy times and one of the results of this is that the stalactites and stalagmites grow much more slowly than in wet caves. In the caves there is a chapel where they hold weddings and opera as the acoustics are nearly perfect. 

There is a ramp access to the chapel these days and it was explained that in the past the brides had to wade through bat poo up their calves, bit smelly. 

We are planning to move on to Airlie Beach on Wednesday for a couple of days and then on to Tulley. 

The first photo is of the beach here at Mulumbin.

The second attached photo is called Camel rock and you can see the Camel’s rear end if you look closely.