to continue on .....

We left Stradbroke and drove north along the Steve Irwin Way,  passing by the Glass House Mountains but could not see them because of the rain....as it was raining so much we decided to go into Caloundra and tried to set up our camp but the wind and rain were so strong that we ended up renting a van for the night!
Felt like failures...... but we watch the winter olympics for the first and only time, so it was not too bad.
The next day was not so wet so we headed  back to the Australia Zoo and I must say it is impressive. Just so well organised reminded me of the parks in Florida. The crocodile show was good to see..... those crocs are so huge, learnt a  bit about them, lets hope that we don't see any.
We went into Bundaberg and read about the turtles hatching now so decided that was a thing not to be missed. We stayed at Mon Repos beach, a conservation area for loggerhead turtles and watched the hatchlings emerge from the nest and head for the water. One actually crawled across my foot, how special was that.... these little things are so very cute.
As I am such a poor sleeper I was listening to my radio (I use a headset) and during the night the ABC were putting out emergency flood warnings (reminded me of the Canberra fires) for Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast - apart from the monsoon low that was in western Queensland they were expecting an East Coast low to form off Frazer Island the next morning. High winds and rain on top of the usual rain squalls coming through so we packed up and left.
Drove to Rockhampton in heavy rain until we arrived but have only had one squall during the night. Today is cloudy - the Fitzroy is in minor flood - very brown, fast flowing water running by the camp we are in on the banks of the river.
Tomorrow we will head out north - the weather should improve by the weekend, we hope. Hate to complain about the rain and I know that it is the wet BUT this is more than the usual wet. The gardens are so lush and lovely.