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Town of 1770 - East Australia
Round The World Trip Journal

Text By Jo & Photos By Mike

(21st April) Town Of 1770 - Yes that's the town name!
After Airlie Beach we did the big drive south, driving 700km down through Mackay, Marlborough, Rockhampton and Gladstone. The landscape slowly changed from trees into open pasture – this is cattle country. We ended up on the Capricorn Coast – so called because this is where we crossed the Tropic of Capricorn. We spent the night at a small resort town called Town of 1770. What a great name for a place. Apparently this was the second place that Lieutenant James Cook landed in Australia (in 1770 no less!) and the first in Queensland, hence the town is referred to as the birthplace of Queensland. The sun was setting here as we pulled up and we watched it set over the inlet just as a bright pink amphibious vehicle drove out of the water and onto the sand flats! We had a frightening encounter with a gigantic spider this night. We were just about to make the bed up when Mike shouted at me to get out of the van – so I did. As I looked back in, there was a hand sized hairy spider up on the ceiling above where I’d been sat! Gruesome! Mike whacked it with his shoe and disposed of it. It was then that we discovered that the netting over our ceiling air vent had a hole in it. The spider must have fallen off the tree above us and climbed in! Needless to say we quickly taped up the vent! The next morning we drove around the area to get a better feel for it and discovered the neighbouring town of Agnes Water. This is apparently the northernmost surfing beach on this coast and there were a few out. A pretty beach that reminded us of Devon with the rocks around it.

Highlights of our round the world trip:

Stop 1 - Capetown---> The City | Simonstown Penguins | Table Mountain Cable Car | The Waterfront Seals | Windsurf Action.
Stop 2 - West Australia---> Perth City | Perth Zoo | Cohunu Animal Park | Rottnest Island | Rockingham Penguins | Yanchep Park Koalas | Cervantes Pinnacles | Geraldton Windsurfing | Kalbarri Gorge | The Pink Lake | Coronation Beach Windsurfing | Gero Road to Cervantes | Carnarvon Jetty & Quobba Snorkel | Denham Lagoon | Monkey Mia Dolphins | Coral Bay Termite Hills | Coral Bay Quad Biking The Dunes | Exmouth Kangaroos | Mandurah Canals | Margaret River | Margaret River Wine Tour | Margs Windsurfing | Bunbury Windsurf | Bussleton Pier | Towns near Bussleton | Augusta Nature | Pemberton Camping | Pemberton Tall Trees | Cape D'Entrecasteaux | Walpole Tall Trees.
Stop 3 - East Australia---> Cairns Sky Rail Cable Car Over The Rainforest | Mossman Gorge | Cape Tribulation Rainforest | Port Douglas | Daintree Crocodiles | Captain Cook Highway | Beaches Near Cairns | Atherton Tablelands Fig Trees | Bowen Beaches | Airlie Beach | Whitsunday Islands Boat Tour | Great Barrier Reef Snorkel | Whitsunday Snorkelling | Town of 1770 History | Fraser Island Beach Driving | Tin Can Bay Dolphins | Noosa River | Australia Zoo Wombats | Sunshine Coast | Nanango Bush | Gold Coast Beaches | Byron Bay Beaches | Woolgoolga Beaches | Coffs Harbour | Port Macquarie Cafes | Forster Pelicans | Great Lakes | Nelson Bay Dolphins | Sydney By Day | Sydney By Night | Sydney's Manly Beach.
Stop 4 - New Zealand---> Auckland Revolving Restaurant | Rotorua Volcanic National Park | Lake Taupo & Waitomo Glow Worms.
Stop 5 - French Polynesia---> Tahiti Island Waterfalls | Moorea Island Water Bungalows | Moorea Shark Feeding | Bora Bora Island Buggying.
Stop 6 - Hawaii, Maui---> Maui Snorkel Videos | Maui Snorkel Photography | Maui Windsurfing | Maui East Coast Hana Highway | Maui North Beaches 1 | Maui North Beaches 2 | Maui West Coast Surfing | Maui South West Lava Fields | Haleakala Volcano.
Stop 7 - Hawaii, Oahu---> Kailua Beaches | Round Oahu Island Drive | Honolulu Pearl Harbour | Oahu Snorkel Videos.
Stop 8 - West USA---> Los Angeles City Tour | Venice Beach | Long Beach | Queen Mary Tour | San Onofre Surfing | Route 66 Drive | Las Vegas Casinos | Grand Canyon.
Stop 9 - East USA---> Miami Beach Art Deco.
Stop 10 - UK, HOME---> Back To Heathrow, Bringing To A Close Our Amazing Round The World Trip.