We collect seeds from interesting
plants, usually beautiful flowers, hoping
they will germinate in our garden.
Then we set off to the north. The nature was
still green and that was very unusual. We
travelled to the coast through an area with
many huge coal mines. These are producing
mainly for export, Today we cross
the tropic of Capricorn to the north, which
means that we are now in the tropics. Though
we are closer to the equator, it's slightly
less warm than in the south. We spend the
night in Middlemount, where we found huge
caravan park where most residents were the
coalminers. (Warning sign: fighting patrons
are removed from park). We are looking
forward to reach the coast so we can treat
ourselves on Fish and Chips. In the
morning, during our run we can see
Middlemount. It is s very nice town, with an
attractive layout, like in a park. It
stretches over quite an area, as each house
has a big garden. During the run we burned
550 kcal, according the computer. This
morning the alarm clock did ring at 05.30,
but we decided it is better to start earlier,
so we can exploit the day better. As of now
it will be 05.00, so we have more time for
our program ;-) including running.
Today we drive to the coast for one
of the major events of this tour, diving on
the Great Barrier Reef, the biggest reef in
the world. Today's target us Mackay one of
the major cities in Queensland. As always,
the landscape is interesting. It's all fresh
green. It was a drought for many years, and
as there was no food for the animals, they
were slaughtered. Now there are hardly any
cattle, but plenty of food, at least as long
as it lasts. Interesting to see how
successful nature is in its survival
strategy to survive the drought; one month
after the rain fell, all plants thrive.
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