Take time to smell the roses
In June 2018 we made the trip to Cape York. We left our van at Mount Carbine Caravan Park. You can store your van there for free if you stay there before and/or after your trip to the top. After our little adventure in the Aurukun forest, (see previous post https://wordpress.com/block-editor/post/workingholidaypress.home.blog/580 ) we made our way along the corrugated-tarred-corrugated-tarred road.
We settled near Mackay for the winter of 2018. Thomas was employed as a truck driver to cart bogasse, the dry, sawdust-like end product after the sugar cane has been crushed. The bagasse is stockpiled at the local sugar mills who then burn it to produce electricity. I found the whole process of sugar production fascinating, from the machines that cut the cane and spit it into trucks which remain in exactly the right position to catch the cut stalks, to the network of train tracks throughout the fields, supporting locomotives pulling long snakes of carriages carrying the harvest to the mills. Photos and videos of transformer-like machines, trains and trucks were a big hit with our three year old grandson.
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So back to the summary of our trip so far and the lessons we have learnt along the way.
We worked for a few months in Sydney, saved a bit of money and set ourselves up for freedom camping, armed with Wikkicamps, my new bestie, we could not drive out of Sydney quick enough. Still under twelve months on the road, we had learnt a lot but still had lots to learn.Read More »
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