We booked to stay at Stanthorpe (in our "new" Spacevan) to celebrate the 20th anniversary of our first "real" date but that plan was canned due to wet weather, so we ended up at Tin Can Bay instead!Nick arrived home from night-shift, we packed the car and then I drove several hours up the coast, to our budget cabin accommodation.
We enjoyed the quieter surrounds and exploring. We had fun feeding dolphins, meeting some locals at an open mic, admiring Rainbow Beach and doing a daytrip to Hervey Bay.
The cabin had a microwave, some plug-in hotplates and a frypan - but that worked out well. We dined all fresco on the verandah, listening to the flying foxes and enjoying the stillness. At one stage, Nick went inside to refill his drink and I noticed a few mozzies, so suggested we both retreat inside. Hah. Seemingly they'd been so busy biting him previously that none had attempted to bother me!
I tried something different this trip and packed one of our wide-mouth thermoses with ice before leaving home - so we had icecubes for our drink bottles en route and on arrival. That was a bit flash! (I think it was during our Big Loop trip that we first packed flexible ice cube trays and those came away this time also).
