{"id":218,"date":"2009-05-12T21:01:12","date_gmt":"2009-05-12T11:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lostinoz.laugher.id.au\/?p=218"},"modified":"2009-05-12T21:01:12","modified_gmt":"2009-05-12T11:01:12","slug":"barron-mackay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lostinoz.laugher.id.au\/?p=218","title":{"rendered":"Barron Mackay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We don&#8217;t get too many &#8216;name&#8217; acts coming through this area, so when we saw a ad for comedian Carl Barron at Capella (50k north) we grabbed a couple of tickets. Actually the venue sold out over a week before his performance. As it was on the Saturday night of a long weekend up here, we took the chance to have a couple of days away.<\/p>\n<p>Carl Barron was great &#8211; lots of laughs. After the show we continued north and stayed the night at Clermont. Next morning we headed north-east, through Moranbah and on to Mackay.<\/p>\n<p>When we bought Suzi we never imagined doing trips\u00c2\u00a0 in her like this &#8211; the roads are pretty rough and being such a short wheel-base, Suzi is pretty rough to travel in. The distance between towns is also a lot more up here. Mackay is just under 400km from Emerald &#8211; our second closest larger town. Rockhampton is closer, at 300km to the east.<\/p>\n<p>We both hit the shops on Sunday arvo in Mackay. Both of us had a few things we wanted, things just not available in Emerald. Stayed in the CBD, on the south bank of the river. Had a nice tea out at Hogs Breath.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_220\" style=\"width: 496px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-220\" class=\"size-full wp-image-220\" title=\"dsc00366\" src=\"http:\/\/lostinoz.laugher.id.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/dsc00366.jpg\" alt=\"Mackay breakwall and boat harbour\" width=\"486\" height=\"363\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-220\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mackay breakwall and boat harbour<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Monday morning we both indulged in our favourite breakfasts at the harbour &#8211; pancakes with lemon for Jan, eggs benedict for David.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_222\" style=\"width: 506px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-222\" class=\"size-full wp-image-222\" title=\"dsc00368\" src=\"http:\/\/lostinoz.laugher.id.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/dsc00368.jpg\" alt=\"Some of the 400+ boats in Mackay harbour\" width=\"496\" height=\"370\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-222\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some of the 400+ boats in Mackay harbour<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We had a look more of a look around Mackay and then Sarina, 40km south. We then headed back to Emerald on a slightly different route.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_225\" style=\"width: 512px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-225\" class=\"size-full wp-image-225\" title=\"dsc00369\" src=\"http:\/\/lostinoz.laugher.id.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/dsc00369.jpg\" alt=\"Sarina beach\" width=\"502\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lostinoz.laugher.id.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/dsc00369.jpg 800w, http:\/\/lostinoz.laugher.id.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/dsc00369-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 502px) 100vw, 502px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-225\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sarina beach<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This trip to Mackay was our first but it won&#8217;t be our last. So many things to see &#8211; so little time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We don&#8217;t get too many &#8216;name&#8217; acts coming through this area, so when we saw a ad for comedian Carl Barron at Capella (50k north) we grabbed a couple of tickets. Actually the venue sold out over a week before his performance. As it was on the Saturday night of a long weekend up here, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostinoz.laugher.id.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostinoz.laugher.id.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostinoz.laugher.id.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostinoz.laugher.id.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostinoz.laugher.id.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/lostinoz.laugher.id.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236,"href":"http:\/\/lostinoz.laugher.id.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions\/236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostinoz.laugher.id.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostinoz.laugher.id.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostinoz.laugher.id.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}