Sunday, 17 April
While you could opt for breakfast in Gladstone, the game plan, having sighted a reasonably priced servo on the way back from the fish shop, was to refuel there, head south through Miriam Vale and Gin Gin and stop for a brunch in Childers.
From there, we reasoned, a further couple of hours would take us to Eumundi, where another rest stop could be spent browsing through the shops (there's a Berkelouw Books there, for a start, so that looks after me) would give the driver a lengthy break, and we could probably grab a bite to eat as well if we were so inclined.
The trip itself was more or less uneventful, passing the once preferred overnight option at Koorawatha (which hasn't been the same since Basil and Sibyl sold up and retired), discussion of matters relating to operating a successful business in a relatively isolated location took us a fair way towards Gin Gin after we'd noted that the little place south of Miriam Vale (the only other place you can buy fuel between Miriam Vale and Gin Gin) seemed to be closed for renovations.
There was, I suppose, always the possibility that our preferred brunch option, the cafe beside the Post Office in Childers, might be closed on Sunday, but there were bound to be other options in a town that has always struck me as reasonably tourist and backpacker oriented, and as it turned out we didn't need to go looking for other options.
