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Reply #160 - Jun 19^th, 2025 at 3:16pm

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Well this is something you don’t see that often. Maggie & Derek at a pub. Cheesy

Camped for the night at the Kuttabul Pub free camp just north of Mackay.

Great free camp on the grassed area out the front of the pub with nice cold beer. No facilities although can use pub toilets when open.

Couple of schooners went down well. Unfortunately they are having issues with the kitchen and it’s closed.

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Reply #161 - Jun 19^th, 2025 at 5:14pm

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Hi Derek
Another nice camping spot . reminds he of a song
" a little further north each year" by Graeme Connors
enjoy your self
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Reply #162 - Jun 20^th, 2025 at 9:12pm

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Motorhome is parked up for the next week in Mackay as we visit family here.

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Reply #163 - Jun 21^st, 2025 at 4:41am

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Hi Derek
Have a great time with family
take care
regards Kev Wink

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Reply #164 - Jun 22^nd, 2025 at 2:55pm

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Maggie’s cousin Norm, paddled up the creek in his canoe yesterday and dropped some crab pots. Picked them up this morning for three nice bucks.

Yummmmmm!!!

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Reply #165 - Jun 22^nd, 2025 at 4:22pm

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Hi Derek
That looks like a lovely meal coming up Good on you Norm
and a bit of local knowledge. Grin

Have a great time Derek
regards Kev Wink

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Reply #166 - Jun 22^nd, 2025 at 9:54pm

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Bit of a look around Mackay Harbour. The weather was not kind to us. Sad

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Reply #167 - Jun 23^rd, 2025 at 5:10pm

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Hi Derek
Thanks for the photos
regards Kev Wink

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Reply #168 - Jun 24^th, 2025 at 11:53pm

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About 20 or so years ago the company I worked for flew me up to Mackay to help steam the Tug they purchased back to SA. Wasn't a bad trip with a stopover in Sydney. From memory trip took about two and a half weeks.The tug was called the Lucinda. I never got to see Mackay that much as we were getting the tug ready for the trip home. (But the pubs I visited there were nice.)

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Reply #169 - Jun 25^th, 2025 at 6:42pm

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About the best days fishing I have had for many years.

Out today with Maggie’s cousin Norm. We had a 6 hour window between tides to get in and out of the creek where the boat ramp is.

Went 25 klm out to around Brampton Island. Fished for possibly 4 1/2 hours as Norm showed me the old Brampton Island resort.

A mix of coral trout, sweet lip, cod, Moses perch and a few others.

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