{"id":35354,"date":"2024-06-18T18:16:37","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T08:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/?p=35354"},"modified":"2024-06-18T18:16:43","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T08:16:43","slug":"emu-park-queensland-2024-%f0%9f%87%a6%f0%9f%87%ba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/?p=35354","title":{"rendered":"Emu Park, Queensland 2024 \ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddfa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Date: 11th to 16th June 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Travelled: 38 kms from Rockhampton to Yeppoon <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Visited: Yeppoon and Emu Park<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stayed: Beachside CP Yeppoon, $68, S23.11976, E150.749146  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Budget: 27 days @ $XX per day<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We spend a quiet evening at Kershaw Gardens, Rockhampton\u2019s free camp. Cannot believe how many motorhomes, caravans and home made campers can fit into the site. Like a sardine can we have people sleeping in cars all around us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A free night is a free night. The site is well located to a large shopping complex just across the road. Anyway one nights enough for us and we head off to Rockhampton pool as soon as we can extradite the Jayco. Pam does her laps and we make for Yeppoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We stayed in Yeppoon on our way north in 2021. We have booked at the Beachside CP for 6 nights, but we can only get an unpowered site but it is beachfront. Six days unpowered will be a good test of our new lithium batteries and inverter system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Our site has great views across Great Keppel and surrounding islands<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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As we been to Yeppoon before just a few photos to summarise our visit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We use the bikes everyday during our visit. Whilst Yeppoon has various bike paths and a rail trail the pathways tend to be a little disjointed requiring some riding on the road side. We still manage almost 20 kilometres of riding most days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wreck Point, a steep climb but relatively easy with our new bikes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Soldier Crabs aren\u2019t really this big thankfully<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The walk of shame.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Everyone talks up Emu Park as being worth a visit whilst in the Yeppoon area. As it\u2019s 20 kilometres south of Yeppoon along the coast the local bus (#440) seems the best option. As Friday is a pubic holiday for the Rockhampton Show, the tourist lady recommends going on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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$3.60 covers our concession fares to Emu Park. The 35 minute ride gives some excellent coastal views.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Only metal Emus in Emu Park<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Keppel looks very different from here.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Singing Ship stands as the Captain Cook Memorial <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Wandering on further around the point we find Emu Park\u2019s War Memorial. Having travelled around Australia for a while now we found this series of information panels and viewing points most impressive. Well worth our time taking in all the detail of the locals who heard their country\u2019s call.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Anyway we\u2019ve done Emu Park so it\u2019s time to wander up the hill to the pub for a long lunch until its time to make our way to the bus stop for the return journey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We\u2019ve enjoyed 6 days of beautiful weather in Yeppoon, but it\u2019s s time to continue north for our next adventure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michael + Pam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Date: 11th to 16th June 2024 Travelled: 38 kms from Rockhampton to Yeppoon  Visited: Yeppoon and Emu Park Stayed: Beachside CP Yeppoon, $68, S23.11976, E150.749146   Budget: 27 days @ $XX per day We spend a quiet evening at Kershaw Gardens, Rockhampton\u2019s free camp. Cannot believe how many motorhomes, caravans and home made campers can fit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":35376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,123],"tags":[129],"class_list":{"0":"post-35354","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"category-queensland","9":"tag-country-towns-qld","10":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35354"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35411,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35354\/revisions\/35411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}