Full day in Bundaberg today and we had a top one!
Thanks to Mr I'll wake at 4 am Lewis our day was a reasonably early start! I'm guessing bed time will be soon upon us!!
Not long before we went to head out this morning the heaven's opened and it bucketed down but all things considered we didn't have too much of a problem with the rain throughout the day.
Our first stop was The Barrel, or the Bundaberg soft drink factory, we missed doing a tour here last time so it was a must do this time. I remembered to take my 20% discount voucher in with me only to be told I couldn't use it as they were doing 50% off tours, insert happy dance right here.
The tour was really fun, not exactly what I had expected but entertaining and informative, very glad to have done it and I would recommend it to others. The kids loved the end of the tour because they give you a taste of all 15 flavours, sugar overload!!!
Our next stop was Bargara a very nice area on the coast with great walk/cycle ways and playgrounds for the kids.
We headed to an inlet called the basin which is basically a man made sheltered beach area where you can swim and snorkel and even despite the gusty winds we were able to safely snorkel and see fish 🐟 it was a heap of fun even if visibility was low.
We then headed to a great cafe for lunch, it looked ok, it was actually brilliant , we all had great meals, sitting by the beach feeling fabulous! Delicious seafood, cooked to perfection! It was just the perfect holiday meal I had been hoping to have at some stage on our trip and we stumbled onto it by chance.
After lunch we went for a walk along the coastline northbound to Mon Repos, this is an area devoted to the conservation of sea turtles, you can actually do night tours where you may see the turtles come onshore to lay their eggs or at this time of the year possibly see the hatchlings head to the sea. It is a very informative centre with loads of details about turtles and the significant misunderstandings we had about their breeding and development. Fortunately now there is a much better understanding of the turtles and their lifecycle but like so many other species they are greatly threatened by our actions.
After our seriously long walk and visit to Bargara we headed the 15 or so km back into town to visit Alexandra Park and Zoo, it is such a pretty little area by the river with a free zoo with emus, dingoes, wallabies, many birds. Surrounding the zoo is yet another great kids playground, they are so good with playgrounds up here.
After all of that we headed back to our little room for a makeshift dinner and now time for bed. Tomorrow is a big drive day.
And of course no photos again!
Hopefully they will come soon enough
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