Completed The Loop

We have done it - back in Mt Cotton, Brisbane from where we started.  22,000km in 6 weeks.  Thought we would have done more kilometres, guess you could if you took more time and went in and out of every nook and cranny.  It has really just been a breeze through everywhere but we have seen and learnt lots about Australia in that short time.


This morning we left Tin Can Bay and headed for Rainbow Beach, where we had intended going yesterday.  It is a beautiful beach at the end of the road, not too commercialised, popular for surfing, 4x4 driving as you can drive all along the beach.  Then if you carry on along the road to Inskip Point is where you hop on a barge to get to Fraser Island.   It is the closest point to get to Fraser Island.   Literally a hop step and jump across the water.


Carried on back out to the  main highway to Gympie where we checked out a museum on the history of gold mining in the area, even claiming :The town that saved Queensland from Bankruptcy".  Original gold mining in Gympie occured for 60 years, beginning in 1867 with the discovery of gold by James Nash, and continued until 1927.  After leaving the goldfields fallow for over half a century, mining recommenced in 1980.  Most of the town of Gympie has mine shafts underneath the town itself.


Then it was the last stretch down the Bruce highway back to Mt Cotton, Brisbane from where we started, arriving just before dark.

Surfers at Rainbow Beach

Fraser Island Barge

Rainbow Beach

Rainbow Beach

Rainbow Beach

Ghost gum

we reckon this looked like the first "Dingo"