Beer, beaches, ginger beer and RUM

On our last day in Brisbane we spent the afternoon at the Castlemaine XXXX brewery. It was a very interesting tour but the best bit was the tastings in the bar at the end :-) Needless to say, we spent a very nice afternoon. My favourite ales was a porter called Jack of Spades. We have a photo somewhere of me pouring a half pint - and very tasty it was too.

From there we headed north to Tin Can Bay. A bit disappointing as we were expecting it to be on the coast and it was on the estuary, overlooking Fraser Island so no view of the Pacific Ocean. We remedied this by spending the day at Rainbow Beach, about 30kms away. It was nice to chill out by the sea.

On to Burnett Heads, 15km outside Bundaberg and on the coast. Yesterday we cycled 20km to Bargara and back, past the Mon Repos Turtle Rookery. We're a little early as the turtles start coming ashore to lay their eggs in November, so we'll be back this way after Cairns and will look in on them then.

Bundaberg - home of brewed ginger beer and rum. What a wonderful combination! We did tours of both establishments - well, it would have been rude not to.

Tomorrow we head up to the tropics to Yippoon, just past Rockhampton.