We woke up, had breakfast, and packed up. Farewell to Barry took a while, but we left the park around 9.30, for Airlie Beach. Our first destination was a visit to Lee and Caroline, our friends from Brewworks. We had never made it up to visit them, but since we were driving past, I couldn’t miss the opportunity. They were as welcome as ever. We brought some cakes from the local supermarket, and Lee had made crumpets, so we had a lovely feast. They have banana trees, so gave us some bananas to take with us.

We jumped in to Lee’s car, and he took us for a drive through Airlie Beach – much easier than taking the caravan through! He pointed out all the pubs and restaurants that they go to.

Back at the house, Carolyn came down and we said our goodbyes, before heading towards Bowen. We wanted to get there at a decent time so the boys could have a swim. But we still had to make a stop on the way…and also a trip to the supermarket for more eggs.

We checked in to our caravan park, and set up, in time for beers in the pool at 3.00.

We had showers and a couple more drinks, before our courtesy bus came to pick us up, and take us to the pub, where we had a good dinner, and watched the Hawks beat Adelaide.

The courtesy bus took us home after the game, so we were back around 10.45. The wind from earlier had died down, and it was quite comfortable. But I went straight to bed.