“Sorry everyone reading from Canberra but today I was hot.” – Mia

At Yeppoon, we did the Bluff Point walking track which climbed to the top of a hill and back. The views of the Keppell islands, and turquoise sea water were enticingly cool when watched from above on the hot headland.

After the bush walk we went to a sea shell museum which was very interesting, there were some huge shells from places we had already been but the shells were mainly from Yeppoon and overseas. After the hot bush walk and visit to the museum we went back to our caravan park and swam in the pool and had cold drinks.

The next day we caught a ferry out to Great Keppel Island for the day. We hired kayaks and paddled to Monkey Beach for some snorkelling. We saw at least three different schools of fish and they were everywhere, it was really fun trying to swim with the fish when they kept darting up and down. We had a great beach picnic before Lilah and I tried to kayak together, Lilah kept jumping off when we went far out and when we were going down the beach she jumped off and we had a race back to our spot.

On the way back we stopped at another small beach for more snorkelling. My sunglasses tipped off the kayak and fell onto the reef. We looked for ages before we found them, while dad still couldn’t see them Lilah dived down a couple of metres to get them, she was our saviour! Now we could go back and return the kayaks, get a chocolate milkshake and board the boat. It was a great day with great weather.