1770

It rained a lot of the night and continued as we packed up and it was actually quite cool - top of only 16 degrees (still nearly double the temperture in Melbourne!) We left about 9.30am and it was about a 3 hour drive to get to our next destination - the twin towns of 1770 and Agnes Water. It was a little hairy on the roads in the wet conditions. The kids settled in, watching DVDs so we drove straight through apart from a toilet stop. The towns are quite away off the beaten track with only a few shops, tour operators and lots of accommodation options and are remarkably unspoilt by urbanisation. We were staying at a beachfront caravan park in 1770. We set up and had a bite to eat. I did some washing and the kids had a muck around on the beach. We walked towards the headland to check out the monument commemorating the landing of Lieutenant James Cook who was the first European to make landfall (on what later became known as Queensland) here on the 24th May in 1770. We contemplated doing the lookout walk but it was pretty wet so we drove into Agnes Water to visit the info centre and checked out the surf beach.