Yeppon is a lovely, tropical, peaceful little town on the Capricorn Coast, about 40km from Rockhampton. There are palm and coconut trees everywhere, and beach after beach. We stayed at a lovely quiet camp ground, and Antony did very well to get the van backed in to the site, as it was quite squishy with the next door neighbour's Annex pegged a little on our side! At first we couldn't find our power source, so i asked the park keeper, turns out it was through the hedge and up the ramp...of course it was!!! :) We even had a little 'pet' while we were there, a gorgeous little green tree frog that had made itself at home in the ladies amenities.
We spent some time in the beautiful Byfield National park, where the rainforest reminded us of Mt Field, only instead of Manferns it had palm trees! And we knew it was Croc inhabited from the inprints in the sand next to the river. It was quite surreal to be so close to where a croc or crocs had been recently, they were probably watching us from just below the surface....
We had planned to go swimming in Stoney Creek water hole, but 2 things stopped us, #1 the water was freezing as it came off a mountain, #2 there was a warning sign advising to not tread on the rocks under the water as they may not be rocks, they could be spikey stone fish and the spikes can go right through your feet! As Alex is more of a walker than a swimmer we thought it best to not risk it. The water in Stoney Creek was amazing though, so clear and a beautiful soft bluey green colour.
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