Rockhampton/Great Keppel Island

After a couple of days at WoyWoy and a visit at the relatives of Diana we decided to change our holiday route. Originally we wanted to buy or hire a car in Sydney and drive it up to north to Cape Tribulation (in the north of Cairns). But they told us that our time is not enough to go the whole way.
Plan changed and 2 tickets were bought to fly to Rockhampton. Unfortunately we couldn’t see Brisbane, Sunshine Coast and Gold Coast. But it was better to save it for summer times when it is warmer there and we can go for swimming.

So we arrived at Rockhampton and had to take notice that there was no public transportation to town available. But a very nice woman offered us a free ride in her car to the city centre. ;-)
Ok honestly it is too much to call it city centre. Rockhampton is not so small like it seemed to us but as the cattle capital of Australia it was more a little city which could be a setting of an italo western movie.

We slept one night in a Saloon looking Pub and booked our Trip to Great Keppel Island, where the crystal clear water and the long and lonely beaches were waiting for us. And surprisingly it was the truth which was caused by several factors. On one hand it wasn´t the already high season and the really big boom of Keppel Island happened some years ago. Therefore we only were 25 people on the whole island.

It was awesome and we booked it unfortunately only for three days. It was our first camping in Australia and it was the most comfortable, because they offered us for our tent mattresses, top sheets, blankets and pillows and it didn’t matter anything that we had neither a sleeping bag nor a camping mat.

The weather was not extreme hot but it was really nice we had all the time sunshine and during midday it was really hot to go swimming. We spent the following days relaxing mostly at the beaches where sometimes passed some daily tourists and we watched every sunset at the sea.

After three days we had to leave and went back to Rockhampton to leave from there with the bus to Townsville...