http://www.drivenow.com.au/blog Travel ideas for those on the road in Australia Sun, 29 Jan 2012 02:38:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.drivenow.com.au/blog/2009/12/15/great-driving-holidays-mackay-to-ayr-qld/ http://www.drivenow.com.au/blog/2009/12/15/great-driving-holidays-mackay-to-ayr-qld/#comments Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:05:25 +0000 spida http://www.drivenow.com.au/blog/?p=874 We decided to deviate from our intinerary, something we have become very good at! Although sometimes it is not planned at the time.
So after Mackay, we decided to stop in Ayr, a great little town 80km south of Townsville. It’s a good old country town, buzzing with busy farmers and tonnes of produce. There is still enough sugar cane to sink a battleship, but two things Ayr has that not a lot of these small country towns have are, one, it is right on the beach, and two, it has an enormous water supply in the Burdekin River and [...]]]> http://www.drivenow.com.au/blog/2009/12/15/great-driving-holidays-mackay-to-ayr-qld/feed/ 0