Friday 20 June 2014

Great? Keppel Island

After a great nights sleep Dan and I went ashore to explore the Island.
We followed beaches and around headlands to get to the remains of the old resort area which I believe was popular in the eighties with the under 30s. What remains were up for sale the pizza shop and a souvenir shop. There were many buildings and dilapidated  infrastructure fenced off. We came to do some bushwalking too armed with a map that Kathy found online and emailed to me. We found the signposted (dilapidated) track heads and they were overgrown and nasty looking so we kept to the old ratty vehicle tracks and just made our way, via a lookout, back to leaks beach and back on board for a Dans special hamburger. So that was the once Great Keppel Island. We did meet some old folk (walking sticks) off the boat for the day who were heading for the tourist shop to grab a postcard or T shirt, perhaps reliving their past journey to get wrecked as they used to say. It was a depressing mornings walk. The only wildlife observed were also intent on destroying  the place. Feral  Goats.
Anyway we decided to do an overnighter and head north towards the Percy Islands.
Bye for now
Wayne n Dan

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