I was recently reading an article in a caravan e-magazine that praised the benefits of hobbies on the road and how they add to the travel experience. I can certainly put a tick on Blogging, Photography, Sketching, and Ukulele playing, but I fail miserably in the Knitting department. I wonder if making macrame ‘fishing nets’ for found beach objects would count?

A handful of shells picked up on beach walks, tiny cowries, in shades of magenta, a pearl oyster shell with layers of delicate shell peeling. Razor clams, thinner than a fingernail scattered across the sands. Thick and strong, the yellow shells of the wavy volute are the opposite of the delicate wedding cake shape of the southern wentletrap.

The Singing Ship at Emu Park, a towering structure with galahs feeding on insects or are they nesting in those sound tubes.

Keppel Kraken fountain on the Yeppoon foreshore. While Woody had a haircut, I sketched and chatted with Ray a retired draughtsman who loves living on this Coast.

A lure found on the beach.

Two people enjoy a picnic in Bell Park at Emu Park. They are dwarfed by a sculpture and the Norfolk pine shading them.

A boat shed on Ross Creek, Yeppoon, sketched from the car parked on the spit while waiting for Woody to return from another of his long walks.

A woman and her kids wait for coffee at Gather coffee van in the Lammermoor beach car park. The backdrop, thick creek-side scrub.

Causeway Lake shop, is a popular spot for fish and chips overlooking the lake. Especially when the live ones aren’t biting.

The race caller’s tower in Bell Park reserve, Emu Park. This was used in the times when company picnic days were popular and held in this delightful park beside the beach.

A teardrop caravan in our caravan park. Ray the draughtsman, took a photo of this sketch for his daughter who is buying one of these cute vans.

And lastly the stretch of lawn behind the vans on our ‘square’ of NRMA Capricorn Resort at Mulambin. The ‘back lawn’ is the central point for power, water, TV cables, washing lines and just lazing in the sun.