We found a car wash this morning and managed to get rid of most of the cow manure ! The Land Rover is looking more blue than it has for a while now.
From the car wash a quick visit to the supermarket to restock on food, a quick visit to the bottle shop to stock up on beer and we hit the road again.
Pam phoned the “day cruise” people at Seventeen Seventy (that’s the name of the town) to see if there was any space on tomorrow’s trip to Lady Musgrove Island Reef which is part of the Great Barrier Reef. There is space available so, as we’d kind of planned, we headed down the Bruce Highway to Seventeen Seventy.
Seventeen Seventy gets it’s name because it was the second landing point for Captain Cook and the first landing in what would become Queensland. He landed in May 1770 and the town was named Seventeen Seventy as part of the bicentennial celebration of the visit in 1970. Many of the streets have Captain Cook and Endeavour related names as well.
In all the miles we’ve done around Australia we’ve not encountered as many roadworks as there are on the Bruce Highway. More annoying was that part of the roadworks forced us to drive through a few large pools of muddy water – so much for the clean Land Rover, still at least it doesn’t smell… We did get the chance to have a very quick chat with a guy in a classic Range Rover in front of us in the queue though so that was a plus.

There are two camp sites at Seventeen Seventy and we looked at both before picking the one not on the beach as it seemed a bit quieter. We’re booked on the cruise tomorrow and will be picked up from the camp site early in the morning. I’ll leave a description of the cruise and the island until tomorrow when hopefully I’ll have billions of glorious photos to choose from 🙂
We’ll stay at this site tomorrow night too and then look to move a bit further south. We’re both feeling a bit of a rest day coming on so we’ll try and find a site suitable for chilling out for a day.