Months in the planning for this journey and it finally
arrives. I spent the week casually packing my bag and looking things up about
my trip to north Queensland. I had back around February / March where I wanted
to take a holiday north into the deepest, darkest Queensland to explore some
areas that I have not been for a long time. My first plan I had to scrap as I
was going to be in Cairns for my 40th birthday, but too many people
were on holidays at that time. The next was much closer to my birthday that I
ended up with being in the Whitsundays instead. That works for me and using my
flight credits from the New Zealand journey the year before.
The day hit like a brick as I had been watching the rona spread across Sydney
and while I was at work there was a snap lockdown and I was worried I might be
stuck without getting into Queensland, although really I live within 5kms of
the state border. I scooted home for a shower and was on the way to the airport
before we knew it. No problems on the train and I was nice and relaxed when I
arrived at the airport hotel that I had booked my night before the push to
Mackay.
So far the plan is all go and I am lucky that I am not going south rather than north for my birthday as that would really suck as the state has done a lockdown, but Queensland hasn’t as of yet, but things do change and will be interesting to see what happens when I end up arriving back home after a fortnight. I aim to have a good time away and I have breakfast already paid for, so the future is kinda bright already with daylight that is. I had the thought of walking in the dark to the Kingsford Smith museum, but in the dark might be problematic and I think I might need some sleep instead.
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