Maryborough to Townsville

Tuesday last week we finally were able to get away back on the road, we had been back from Fraser Island for a little over two weeks and still not caught up on half we wanted to but we needed to get down the road again to keep to schedule. We headed off last Tuesday and went through to Rockhampton in the pouring rain, from there we headed further up but was forced to stop in Marlborough just 100kms up from Rockhampton. The reason being was quite bizarre, we needed some fuel as we left Rockhampton but knowing there was a BP up the road (we have a BP card) at Marlborough I thought we would be fine to there. On arrival to the BP in Marlborough we were greeted with a no power sign but at that stage I had just 40 kms in the tank, the other caltex down the road was the same so we returned to the BP and waited for the power to be restored. This was at around 10:00am and we were in for a long wait. Whilst waiting we were surprised by the arrival of the Wilsons with their Geist being towed by a Touareg (good taste), they were on their way down the coast and in fact today they are booked in for a service at Maryborough. It was great to see 3 Geists on the road that day. At around 4:30 pm we were able to fill up and head down the road and Clareview was our new target, revised from Mackay. Arriving during a storm we settled down next to a motorhome at the rest stop and had a restless night waiting for a branch to come down on top of us. In the morning all was fine and we headed through to Townsville without incident. One thing to note is that Home Hill has now a very good comfort stop off behind the main street. Many people are starting to use it now, it even has showers. Farrys IGA has good meat there, we bought some Yearling Rump and thoroughly enjoyed it the other night. The skies had cleared and Thursday afternoon saw us arriving safely into Townsville after a rough 48 hours. We quickly set up the van and caught up with Rachel's parents whom we had left in Maryborough to return to Townsville in late January. We have set up at their place for a about a month to catch up on video editing, Honeycombes, our dealer and website development. Friday was quite hectic on the phone with another XK 630 sold into WA. That night I went to the local AFL football match, Thuringowa Bulldogs v's West Tigers and it was a good game and the Bulldogs won. We have been supporting the local team this year, I helped the marketing into their new 10,000 seat stadium. My partner Steve has been looking after it since so this was the first game I could attend in the season. Rachel's father has been doing the time keeping, an expert in the field it was interesting to see the process from the top box. On Saturday Rachel's father Graham suggested a fish down the local beach, so the four of us headed down that afternoon to try our luck, of course I caught the first 5 fish, then promptly threw them back as they were way under size. At this stage is was 5 fish to 0 but for some reason everything turned and I caught 0 and Graham caught 3 reasonable fish. What the!! We returned for a BBQ.
Sunday was a chance to catch up with the man upstairs and ask for forgiveness of all the things I shouldn't have done over the last 6 months. A good mate Pastor Matt Thiele is leaving Townsville to go to another church in Buderim soon and it was the last opportunity to worship with him. It was great and we surprised a lot of people. The afternoon was spent buying a couple of things at Anaconda and catching up on sleep. That brings me to today, catching up on the blog (done) and seeing an owner Mr Cullen and visiting the crew at Honeycombes Caravans and Motorhomes.