From Rockhampton the expedition followed the Bruce Highway along the coast of central Queensland toward the Whitsunday Islands. Unlike the bush tracks masquerading as highways that we had followed previously, this highway actually had some traffic.
We passed many kilometres of sugarcane fields on the trek northward.
The sun sank below the western mountains as the expedition moved northward.
Chief expedition photographer, Lord Bailey, documenting himself.
The sugarcane industry in Queensland is robust and polluting.
A field fire along the highway.
