After spending almost a week in Hervey Bay, including two days on Fraser Island and some days off due to bad weather, we kept cycling North in direction of Bundaberg. Close to Bundaberg, we trusted Google Maps too much and we ended on a macadamia farm. We met the people working there and they gave us a ride on the tractor while harvesting the nuts. In the afternoon we arrived in Bundaberg at Bobs place, our new host. We had a really great evening and a barbecue in the garden. 

First plan was to move on the next day, but instead we stayed another night and Bob took us to the Snakes Down Under Zoo. This is a small zoo with some reptiles, kangaroos and koalas. First we saw a snake show, where we learned a lot and in the end we could even hold a snake.
Afterwards we were introduced to the koalas and could feed the kangaroos, followed by a presentation of all the other reptiles they had where we could feel their different skins. The next big presentation was with their two saltwater crocodiles. The owner of the zoo even lost his thumb to the male crocodile a couple of years ago. The crocodile was not in a good mood that day and it did not want to follow the keeper's instructions but rather try to bite him instead. Overall we had a really great day in that zoo.

The next day, we started cycling away from the coast and in direction of Mount Perry. We had a few meters of elevation to climb but it was a beautiful landscape and totally worth it. Close to Mt Perry we cycled through the longest non-supported tunnel in the southern hemisphere: Boolboonda Tunnel. It was a really hilly area but very scenic and with some Southerly tailwind we were really fast. On the next day we hit a new record for the longest distance a day: 154km! It was just easy going with some tailwind and mostly flat areas. In the first 2,5 hours we already cycled 64km and by the time we had lunch we had the 120km done. At the end of the day we got on a gravel road and it started to rain, so we were lucky to find a spot to stay over the night. We just met our host Wade when he was on his way out to hunt some pigs and we could stay in his house for the night. We were so happy to stay insight because it kept on raining for the whole night.

In the morning the gravel road that we had to take to go back to the highway was really boggy and muddy. Wade had to go to town anyway and he gave us a ride with all our bags and bikes on the back of his car. That was a real blessing as the road would have been a hell of a ride. From there it was only 35km left from Duaringa to Dingo that we had to cycle, but it rained almost the whole time. From Dingo to Charlevue, the cattle station where we would work the next couple of weeks, we just had another 20km more to cycle. We arrived at around 2 pm, could dry everything and have a nice shower. This cattle station will be our home for a while, we can have a bit of a rest and no cycling, as well as earning some money before starting our cycling through the outback.