From Mackay we went back to Gladstone. Actually, we thought about directly going to Hervey Bay, but on the one hand, we had some buffer and on the other hand it would have ended in a complete day in the car. That’s why we decided to make another stop in Gladstone at our couchsurfer Stephen, who wanted to host us for another night.
On the way to his place, we stopped several times along the Capricorn Coast national park, a national park comprising interesting rock formations along the coast. A part of it consists of half of an extinct volcano and that is the reason why you can see stone sediments of this volcano. Such a volcano forms by ongoing melting and hardening processes of the stone quite weird formations, mainly if in addition it is affected by erosion of the sea water.
In the evening, we were as mentioned above at Steve’s place who had two couchsurfers from Albany staying with him. The two (mother around 50 and son around 20 years) wanted to visit their father and granddad, respectively. As we’ve already been to Albany (remember: in Western Australia, where we had the breakdown), we had quite a few stories to exchange. Steve prepared again self-made burgers with fresh herbs from his garden. And this time we’ve been fast enough to pay for the shopping, at least, to return the favour.
After a long evening and an extended breakfast, we went on the next day to Hervey Bay with a stopover in Agnes Water, but this…