{"id":1056,"date":"2018-12-04T11:48:59","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T19:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/?p=1056"},"modified":"2018-12-04T20:53:47","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T04:53:47","slug":"mackay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/mackay\/","title":{"rendered":"Mackay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday, 5 December 2018<\/p>\n<p>After 5 days in Townsville I took the Greyhound bus to Mackay yesterday. After that it was a 1 hour ride to the caravan park at Blacks Beach. It&#8217;s beautiful but there is nothing much there.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1054 alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-content\/uploads\/20181205_0518434563786532048973547.jpg\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1536\" srcset=\"http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-content\/uploads\/20181205_0518434563786532048973547.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-content\/uploads\/20181205_0518434563786532048973547-150x113.jpg 150w, http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-content\/uploads\/20181205_0518434563786532048973547-600x450.jpg 600w, http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-content\/uploads\/20181205_0518434563786532048973547-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-content\/uploads\/20181205_0518434563786532048973547-528x396.jpg 528w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I first choose a super camping spot right overlooking the beach, but it was terribly windy and a forecast of thunder showers overnight, so upon the advice of a couple of caravan campers I moved onto the pad and under the roof of the mini camp kitchen.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1055 alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-content\/uploads\/20181205_0546522398811136161423056.jpg\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1536\" srcset=\"http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-content\/uploads\/20181205_0546522398811136161423056.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-content\/uploads\/20181205_0546522398811136161423056-150x113.jpg 150w, http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-content\/uploads\/20181205_0546522398811136161423056-600x450.jpg 600w, http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-content\/uploads\/20181205_0546522398811136161423056-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-content\/uploads\/20181205_0546522398811136161423056-528x396.jpg 528w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There were indeed a couple of thunder showers moving through and I was reasonably protected, although it was noisy with the tent flapping and the rain on the roof.<\/p>\n<p>Today more rain in the forecast and also for the next 5 days. COP of 90 &#8211; 100% and precipitation of 50 &#8211; 150mm each day! Hmmm. Don&#8217;t want to be stuck here since there isn&#8217;t much to do and too far from town. Not the best choice of campgrounds. It&#8217;s 107 kms to Nebo, so I am really hoping to fetch a ride at least part of the way. I may have to ride to the beginning of the road towards Nebo, which is still about 30 km from here.<\/p>\n<p>There is a nice Tavern though where I spent some time last night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday, 5 December 2018 After 5 days in Townsville I took the Greyhound bus to Mackay yesterday. After that it was a 1 hour ride to the caravan park at Blacks Beach. It&#8217;s beautiful but there is nothing much there. I first choose a super camping spot right overlooking the beach, but it was terribly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1056"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1061,"href":"http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056\/revisions\/1061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}