Day 26 - Rockhampton

Today the weather turned on a fabulous show and peak at 32 degrees! It was delicious!! With the sun following us we headed for a visit to the Capricorn Caves for a look and see. Payed up, we joined  another group of people and headed down the forest track towards the caves (with a tour guide). We entered the first room  to the cave called the Grand Entrance. Izabella turned on a fabulous show with screaming and yelling that we were asked to leave (just one of us)! She as so scared (but hey what is she not scared of??..) . With my tail between my legs , Bella and I headed for the exit and waited in the sun until Maciek and Krystian completed the tour. I did however receive a refund for my ticket (Bella was free which was nice).  Izabella was so quiet for about half an hour i truely think she was frightened. Anyway, about forty five minutes later, Maciek and Krystian returned and everyone was happy. Maciek tried to tape and photograph as much as he could but said that the Hastings Caves in southern Tasmania were much more beautiful.

After recovering from Bella's melt down, we hoped back in the car and whilst Bella slept, we went in search of Rockhampton's Big Bull (s). After finding, what we think is the biggest of them all, and doing two laps around the roundabout to try and get good photos (looking like complete loosers) we finally got what we wanted. 

Oh, and just like the big Ram, all of the Bulls come with testicles and all! 

After consuming some lunch, we headed for the Rockhampton zoo and Botanical Gardens. The zoo here is small ish but FREE and the Botanical Gardens are beautiful with a fabulous playground for the kids to play. We were lucky enough to see the Chimpanzees being fed. They are amazing creatures! The zoo keeper fed them yoghurt and they fed them selves from a bowl with a spoon. Never seen any thing like it considering the Chimps taught themselves this. totally totally amazing! we also got to pat a Koala, which Bella thought was fantastic! This was a nice way to chill out and spend the afternoon. 

After a frolic at the park and one lost boomerang thanks to me (wog) we decided to head home for a quick dip in the pool seeing as it was still some 28 degrees outside. After, we decided to head to Sizzler for dinner. Blonds been hanging out for this one. Once at Sizzler, we stuffed ourselves silly and spent the the next few hours trying not to be sick. Krystian consumed a bowl of pasta, a bowl of soup, one ice-cream cone, one mixed icream and then about a dozen drinks. I have never seen a kid eat as much as he did, which also explains the blank look he gave me when i asked him if he wanted more. Apparently he did not respond in fear of puking......The look on his face was priceless. It is safe to say Krystian has experienced his first Sizzler BLOW OUT.

Tomorrow sees us leave rocky for the Whitsundays, with some 480 km ahead and 5+ hours of driving. Tomorrow if going to be a LONG day so best we head to bed and see you all tomorrow.

Over and out