Beautiful Byfield

 

Happy mothers day

 Can I say a very belated Happy Mothers Day to all the wonderful mothers. I am a bit behind in the blogging - sorry busy holidaying!! Darrin was up early mothers day morning, just quietly I was getting a bit excited thinking he was getting me breakfast in bed. But instead I heard him tinkering in his shed (back of the car - it looks just like his shed), he was up early to change the flat tyre. So no breaky in bed.



But, we were in a beautiful place called Byfield, about 45mins from Rockhampton. We spent 3 days exploring this diverse and spectacular area. First stop was Byfield state forest, which was like a little rainforest oasis in the middle of the state forest. We did some snorkelling which the girls found some fish and turtles. They went in search of the stonefish that are meant to be inhabiting the area, but had no sucess in finding any. At night the girls spotted their first cane toad - so a quick lesson in how poisonous they are and why they are an unwanted pest anywhere. But more exciting we found some geckos, did you know that their feet are just like suction caps and that is why they can climb vertical walls.



Holding a turtle





Rock pools by our camp



Finding geckos





Walk to the beach



The next section of Byfield to explore was the Byfield National Park, this section is the coastal part of Byfield. We encoutered massive sand dunes to drive to the coast, lucky there was a big wet season as this made the sand very wet and hard , so our troopy and camper made the trip no problems. The views were quite spectacular and there were some great freshwater rock pools to swim in, as they do not recommend swimming in the ocean because of crocodiles. We did not see any but went for the freshwater option just to be sure.



Waterfall on the way to the beach




One spectacular view of the coastline