One of our beaches at Mackay

After a week in Moranbah, Andy came home with the news that we were off to the coast for 10 days! His work has paid for us to stay in a hotel in Mackay for 10 days while he does training. So we packed our bags that weekend and headed off to Mackay. We’re staying in a motel (they are all motels here) called the Shakespeare International – which is one of those deceptively grand-sounding names. In my experience those who put ‘Royal’, ‘Grand’ or ‘International’ in their name are generally the ones to avoid. It is OK, but for a 10 day stay the room is quite small and the interior décor consists of the red bricks it was built with. So, here we are in Mackay, and we are just off to watch greyhound racing so I’ll catch up with what we’ve been up to in Mackay tomorrow…