Agnes Water

Agnes Water and the adjacent township of Town of 1770 are beach holiday destinations, trading on their position as the most northerly surf beach in Queensland and the southern extent of the Great Barrier Reef. Our caravan park had absolute beach frontage, and although we aren't usually much into swimming we decided to take advantage of this position to have a dip before breakfast a couple of mornings. The water was surprisingly mild, even Wendy, who usually struggles to get her head under water, needed little encouragement to dive under the waves.

The unusually named Town of 1770 marks the site of the second landfall Captain Cook made in his journey of discovery up the Australian east coast. A cairn marks the spot where Cook landed, along a walk around a headland which protects Bustard Bay where the Endeavour anchored. We also hiked up a short steep track in Eurimbula National Park to a lookout back to the same headland.

Apart from a short 9 hole golf course, there wasn't much else to occupy us here at Agnes Water. However, with the Presidents Cup golf tournament on television every day, we have to admit that we spent a great deal of our few days here inside the van glued to the screen. If only those professionals played a bit faster we might have had more time to get out and walk along the beach!