Burrum Heads Beach parkrun

Today parkrun adventure was to Burrum Heads beach parkrun located at Burrum Heads in the Hervey Bay region of Queensland some 3 hours drive north from my home at Redcliffe. The area in basically not commercialized. I drove up on Friday afternoon and slept in my car at a large carpark adjacent to the Burrum River. My car is an SUV and with the rear seats down comfortably fits a single foam comfortable mattress. I had a good night sleep after enjoying dinner at a shelter near the river watching pelicans eagerly greeting fishermen who clean their catch at a fish cleaning shelter and expecting a free feed of fish frames. Several Kangaroos were nearby on Friday afternoon and again at parkrun start this morning. I managed to get a picture of 2 big Roos in mid air bounding past the shelter where the Run Director was delivering her pre parkrun brief. The course is 4.8k on the beach with 200meters of concrete path to the finish line making it one of the few Australian parkruns with a beach section. The Beaches parkrun in Newcastle in the state of New South Wales is the only parkrun in Australian to my knowledge that is run entirely on the beach and naturally the course changes weekly depending on the tide. The Burrum Heads beach is a vast open beach and the region is subject to gigantic tidal movement so when the tide goes out it is way out, so far that its difficult to see the ocean. It is a must do parkrun for and Australian parkrunner