Tues 11th Sept - Mackay to Rockhampton

After picking up my photos, of which a handful of them came out pretty well, I headed for the Finch Hatton Forge in Eungella National Park. I was originally thinking I might stay over night in the National Park (which is meant to be a good spot to see the platypus), I decided to just pay it a brief visit and then head on to Rockhampton, in the heart of Australian beef country. I went on one of the walks in the National Park which takes you through the forest until eventually you emerge at a waterfall. A short distance from the car park I could hear something hissing at me from the undergrowth, which gave me a bit of a shock, thankfully it turned out to be a goana and not one of Australia's venemous snakes! :)

When I got down to Rockhampton I spent the night at the Criterion hotel which is a lovely old Victorian building. The rooms were a little shabby but the building itself has the feeling of an old country house almost, except that there's a bar and a restaurant downstairs..