Our last sunrise on the beach in Yeppoon. Today is a travel day, heading further north. We bade goodbye to the chairs in the shade of a Norfolk pine overlooking the dunes where we watched gorgeous turquoise and orange colored rainbow bee-eater birds swooping to catch bugs on the wing!

The birds were colorful jewels, swooping and diving, then roosting together on a twig! (Not my pics!)

We stopped in the tiny town of Koumala for a break and coffees at the hotel. An iconic fixture of most small towns we’ve been through. Most have a restaurant/bar and some still provide accomodations. There were quite a few patrons because a Crack-Off Competition was in progress in the community park! A whip-cracking contest, apparently something that’s popular in the Outback at cattle stations!