Gladstone - Pollutant city?

TANNUM SANDS what a lovely spot, just 20km's south of Gladstone, the beachside town has a really nice feel to it. We spent the last three nights at the caravan park there, it adjoined bush so kangaroos were there in the late afternoon and lot's of birdlife.
GLADSTONE a very high industry town with coal departing the city, a power plant and alumina factory. The port is due to double in the next few years. Despite the so called polluted air there are a lot of new homes being built. Personally I would rather travel 20kms and live at Tannum Sands.

GREEN TREE SNAKE spooky; he was thin and long, seemed that he went on forever coming out of the leafy undergrowth and into the orchid house at the Gladstone gardens.

TOWN OF 1770 this is where have arrived today, named after the date that Captain Cook landed here. It was overcast this morning with some rain out at sea, the day cleared, good for us tourists but not good for the area which is tinder dry.

TOWN OF 1770 BEACH later today and accessed from the caravan park.