And it was. Unfortunately it's a lovely spot without toilet facilities, so once we'd demolished breakfast there was an issue that needed to be addressed.We needed sleep, but someone needed the facilities, and until that came the sleep bit wasn't going to happen.
What did come, however, was a cassowary, something that produced a bit of an adrenaline rush while the attempt to obtain photographic evidence was made.
We'd been told Etty Bay was a pretty sure bet when it came to cassowary sightings on the Cooktown trip earlier in the year, and here, in the course of a twenty-minute stay, was the verification.
In any case we were heading back towards the Highway shortly thereafter, and the Sugar Museum at Mourilyan delivered the comfort stop, so we headed off in search of rest areas.
There aren't any between Mourilyan and Tully, but I figured we'd be able to turn off there and find a shady spot. One possibly exists, but it wasn't anywhere we looked.
Back onto the highway…
There was, however, a rest area midway between Tully and Cardwell, and an hour's stop there was a significant battery recharger.
After that, we passed through Cardwell, where extensive post-Yasi roadwork nudged stopping into the too hard basket, and over the Cardwell Range, where we ran through the massive realignment of the highway very smoothly and on to Ingham.