PART 6 CHRISTMAS~NEW YEAR TRIP TO THE COAST

THE GREEN FROG and BREAKFAST ON THE BEACH!

After the night of the turtle experience, we woke up tyring to decide what to do with the next couple of days of our trip. We were maybe going to go another hour south to Bundaberg or just hang around in Deepwater....well, decision was made quick and easy when the people who had booked the site we were staying on showed up in the morning. We had luckily finished our breakfast and also were luckily still around (I'm sure they would have been frustrated if we left for the day and had the whole campsite set up with our things!). So, we packed up and headed down to Bundaberg...This was on Wednesday, Dec. 28. We got there around 12pm and found a nice caravan park, much different than the national park. There were people, tents, trailers...EVERYWHERE.....Basically you drive around until you can spot a decent area to set up your tents. And even though it was super busy, we managed to find a spot under a couple of trees to shade us from the sun. SO we spent the day relaxing around the site and spending time in the little town of Bagara (just 15 km east of Bundaberg...on the coast). We went out for dinner and then returned to our campsite to some MORE aussie wildlife. There was a Green frog on Charles and Michelle's tent. It was actually eating the string on Charles's swimming shorts, that were hanging over the top of the tent...maybe the frog thought it was a bug or something, I don't know...but it was the craziest thing. We pulled the shorts off the tent and the frog literally was hanging from the string. Finally, he decided to spit out the string and we put him on the tree trunk and got some amazing pictures.

The next morning we packed up a picnic breakfast and cooked french toast down at the beach. There are these electric BBQ's all over Queensland that you can use for free. It was so cool to cook our breaky and eat down by the water!

During the day Brendon and I went to the Bundaberg Rum Distillery for a tour. We learned how they make the rum (from sugar cane) and how they use North American White Oak (YEAH CANADA...we were so proud!) for the huge barrels that is used to age the rum (for 2 years at the minimum). At the end of the tour, we got to try some of the rum products. They have Bundaberg and Cola premixed in a can or you could order it on draft like beer. We were not allowed to bring our camera into the distillery (or watches, coins, hearing aids, sunglasses cases, sandals).