Mackay

Sugar Cane Country

sugar cane plantations, a harvester and the bio-ethanol distillery in Sarina

Driving through this beautiful landscape all you see is sugar cane plantation. We stopped in Sarina for a playground-tourist information-morning tea break and had ice cream at the Sugar Shed, which is a big bio-ethanol Distillery. Being told that Hay Point has the better beach we drove on for another 30 min and stopped at: another playground for Sarah :-)

Solonika Beach in Hay Point

wave hopping, our shell collection and sand patterns

The beach is a pretty good playground as well! Sarah and Regine had fun jumping over the waves and collecting shells. We love the fascinating patterns that the little crabs create when digging their holes.

Mackay 

Our next quick stop was Mackay and we visited the Lagoon: a great water park with a playground right next to it. It was overcast and  the water was pretty cold, even for Sarah. And actually, I was glad she didn't want to go because the water literally bucketed down! We spend 2 hours on the playground making friends with a boy and his mother who are also going up to Townsville before driving on to our camp for the night: Midge Point. The landscape on the drive was stunning, unfortunately the weather wasn't good enough to get those breathtaking pictures of the mountain ranges. Sarah enjoyed a relaxing chat with Martin before we went to the beach for more beautiful views.

Coconuts 

coconut palm, watch your head, Martin the coconut cracker

The area is full of palm trees and there are coconuts everywhere. We collected a couple and they are delicious but hard work to get to the flesh!

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Hi Sarah Thanks for your exciting story that you are sharing with us. Today I explained to the class your adventure so far. We showed them some photos of you having a great time. We miss you but excited at all of the things you have seen. Next month we will be talking about the environment, perhaps we can play a game together because you are seeing a lot of cool things. I don’t have a lot of time at work to type but here are some pictures of what we have been up too. Ethen is doing some fishing, in the red trough we put the dinosaurs and some special flour, as we dropped vinegar with the dinosaurs we made little explosions. It was cool, Haven, Abby and Lexie are playing mums in the little tent. Lastly we are sticking pipe cleaners into a colander to test our fine motor skills Keep sending photos and I will do my best to keep you up to date with what we are doing. Let me know if you get this as I am not sure if I am sending this the right way. Thanks Isa Millar From: comment-x7ryq38rtudqpsuz1tfc+862036@posthaven.com [mailto:comment-x7ryq38rtudqpsuz1tfc+862036@posthaven.com] Sent: Thursday, 28 May 2015 9:28 PM
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