Mackay - Blacks Beach

11 - 13 March 2025

We had stopped in Sarina and booked a couple of nights in Mackay at Blacks Beach and were looking forward to another nice beachside spot. Although there was rain forecast the sky was clear when we arrived and I was able to get some washing done. We had also discovered that water had managed to get in under the bed again so we had to take everything out and dry it off. We figured it must have been when we were caught in the really heavy, driving rain at Moore Park Beach.

We could see more rain out to sea

The weather was hot, and there were a couple of showers of rain but otherwise we enjoyed a fairly relaxing stay which included a number of dips in the pool at the caravan park. We walked along the beach a couple of times as well. We also went shopping for the next few days which would be spent at Eungella, camping in the national park.

We had suspected for some time - as far back as the NSW south coast - that we might have had a mouse in the camper trailer. We had bought traps and left them for a few days with no result so decided that we must have been mistaken. We discovered that our mouse had managed to get into the car and was happily feasting on packaged pantry items! We set more traps and the sneaky little thing was able to eat the peanut butter without setting of the trap. After purchasing some new plastic containers to secure the few packaged items we had left, we planned to stop at Bunnings on the way out of Mackay and buy some different traps - the ones that catch the mouse in a little house.

The day we packed up to drive up to Eungella the weather forecast was for rain - and quite a lot over the next few days, but we were committed so headed off anyway, stopping to pick up some more mouse traps - hopefully ones that would outsmart our hungry passenger.