luck - for the third time running we were in the coach with noisy kids!! I did actually look into moving to a different one, but it seemed like noisy kids were a feature of all the three sitting coaches - why they can’t put them all together is beyond me!!

Bundaberg
5th - 6th March

The main attraction in Bundaberg was the Mon Repos turtle rookery, the most accessible way to see loggerhead turtle hatchlings in Australia. The rookery was actually around 18 km out of town, and although there was a campsite there, there was no public transport, so we headed to the tourist info office to see what would be the best thing to do. The lady there recommended that we get the bus to the nearest place we could as there was a campsite

there which had a bushwalk to Mon Repos. She went into great detail about the buses before telling us that we wouldn’t be able to get one today as it was Sunday!! We were like “So when did you think that we wanted to go? Given that we’ve just walked in here with all our bags!!”. As a taxi would have cost about £15 we decided to buy our turtle tickets for the night after, stay in the town for the night, and get the bus the next morning.

The campsite wasn’t up to much, it was hot and there wasn’t much shade, and the kitchen was full of weirdy beardy guys. Hel refused to go in there as she thought they looked like they should have been in Mad Max!! Bundaberg didn’t have much in the way of sights, so we headed off to the Botanical Gardens, which were probably the best thing on offer, but paled into insignificance next to Sydney or Melbourne’s gardens. There was quite a nice Japanese