Next day we kept on going arriving to Noosa in the evening for a nice dinner on the beach with a drink or two, the following morning we had breakfast with a beautiful ocean views, walked around town and dreamt of owning one of those fantastic houses, back to the caravan park, hooked the van and took off to Gladstone.
We drove the tourist drive from Ballina to Byron Bay and visit Lennox Head to see the damage done by the twister, that hit the place few weeks ago, while on the road we saw a lot of people looking to the ocean and Rosario spotted something that looked like a whale, we stopped the car and with binoculars and camera in hand off we went to the edge of the cliff and they there were, five magnificent whales putting a big show for us, it was amazing.
Arrived to Gladstone late and had dinner, next day we went to visit the Bundaberg Rum factory, it was amazing to learn there are more than five million litres of molasses in the factory to be fermented and to see the vats containing the rum for aging for two years and worth six million dollars each (and there were heaps) prior bottling.
The factory premises were impregnated with that special sweet aroma mixed with rum at the end we had some "Bundy Rum" tasting; more incredible knowing 97% of the production is consumed in Australia....go aussies!!!!!Gabriel mentioned, he never thought he was going to use the air conditioning system in the car during winter, bye bye winter clothes!!!.
