Yesterday (Saturday, December 4) we stayed in Rockhampton and didn’t do too much. Enid washed clothes in the morning, while I edited pictures and built everything for November into one slideshow video. We walked to the mall near our campsite and looked for a pair of shorts for me, but didn’t find what we were looking for. In the afternoon we swam laps in the campsite pool. Our sink drain was leaking (I think the watermelon we put in the sink so it wouldn’t roll around while we were driving was too heavy, and broke the seal). I walked across the street to a hardware store, bought a pipe wrench and some silicone, tightened up the nut on the drain and gooped it up with silicone and it seems to have stopped the leak.
This morning it was a lovely day in Rockhampton, and we got away early. The rivers in the Rockhampton area are all very high, but they are starting to recede. An 81 year old man was swept away yesterday and drowned while walking beside the river. As we drove farther south there was more rain beginning in the later afternoon, and some of the creeks were high, but nothing like what we drove through farther north over the last few days.
We had originally planned to stop at Maryborough, but we changed our minds when it was raining anyway, and not much to stop and see. So we drove on to the Noosa Beach area and stopped at the Big 4 Noosa Holiday Park. It is in the small town of Tewantin and we are about 9 km from the beach, so we’ll drive down there tomorrow. The park is wet, and now it is raining again. On the news this morning they said this is the wettest spring on record in Eastern Australia.