The sun was shining as we left Townsville and immediately took the wrong road. A great start to the journey. Anyway a quick U turn and we headed south. After we left Townsville the roads became very quiet indeed and you began to wonder if there was anybody else alive on the planet.
The drive went through a mixture of Banana plantations and also Sugar cane crops with miles of open country and fairly fast straight roads so that you could set the cruise control and go to sleep, not quite.
Occasionally we came across a few cars but we noticed that there was a lot of Police activity and there were quite a few people who had been stopped, we guess, for speeding.
Along the road side was the occasional dead Wallaby or Kangaroo, a bit different to cats and foxes that we have in
We finally reached Rockhampton and headed off to Yeppoon to our supposed self catering room only to find that it was a standard Hotel room, whoops my fault Noel.
The room is not cheap and in a resort complex which at a glance looks nice. However it was full, due to the Easter holiday, and the room quality leaves a lot to be desired. When we arrived in the room we found that it smelt of mould and the air conditioning had been left at the mark saying ‘Frozen food’ as it was about minus 20 in there it seemed. When we checked in they apologised that it was necessary to leave the air con on as the rooms get very humid and wet??? And we found the bedroom walls running with water. I have never seen this in any hotel anywhere on my global travels so I can only put this down to a very old and ineffective air con system. Then Jennifer found broken glass on the floor. The floors are tiled and felt wet when you walked on them.
O boy will I have something to say in the ‘Customer reviews’
We headed off for dinner only to find that all the restaurant were fully booked but if you come back in one and half hours we can get you a table. The menu was OK, Buffet to start and finish and you order your main course. One unique approach they had was to the alcohol, first of all you could not drink at the bar due to it being Good Friday and you could only drink when you have dinner. They also had a ‘wine buffet’, you pay 20 dollars and you can have a choice of about 8 wines and drink as much as you like for up to two hours. So we did. It took away the pain of the poor room and air con and a long driving day.
We returned to the bedroom and found the TV did not work. They sent up the security guard to take a look as he said he knows something about Hi Tech stuff, he pulled and pushed a few plugs but no success. Better luck tomorrow.
Nb No photos this time as no time to take
