I love visiting Mackay. My partner has relatives there. It is a really big climate change from where we live in Tasmania. You really can feel the difference. And it’s so sunny, when its not raining! You can swim in pools all year round. There are stingers in the water at times and it’s not safe to swim at the beach when there are stingers; so most of the locals have pools or go to the pool. So lazily sitting in the pool on the noodle chair with my alcohpop is one of my favorite things to do when it’s hot, which is a lot. I love the different foods too. All the exotic fruits and even the flowers are different. It is such a contrast to our place so tropically beautiful. Mangoes are the go, more and more mangoes for me please and so cheap while we’re up at Christmas. There are local banana plantations and the bananas are just beautiful. What can I say; you’ve got to love tropical fruits especially when they are fresh from the farm. We take day trips out of Mackay to tour the countryside and check out any farm gate stalls.

Very soothing driving along just looking at what the country side has to offer. We rent our cars from carhiremackayairport.com.au. We always get one that’s a bit bigger than we need so that we are all comfortable and we can take the nephew out with us. With carhiremackayairport.com.au most of the cars from the companies on offer have unlimited kilometers, so we can take out time strolling around the farms and the beautiful beaches. carhiremackayairport.com.au is also able to give you a price guarantee. As a part of the vroomvroomvroom group of companies, car rental companies offer us their best deals through carhiremackayairport.com.au. Companies like Avis, Thrifty, Budget and Hertz giving us more choice in companies and vehicles. Book online with carhiremackayairport.com.au and then pick up your car from the hire car desk at the airport of your rental company. It’s really a very simple procedure. We also add a child safety seat on the booking page while checking that it’s the car we want. Prices are quoted and then carhiremackayairport.com.au will guarantee your quote. Simple stuff really, more to choose from means more competition, which means less to pay for me, and more mangoes to eat on our holiday.