Day 2 - Gladstone to Pomona and somewhere lost on the way!!

Our departure from Gladstone left us saying goodbye to Mandy and Zaydan and heading further south with the plan of staying at Pomona with the Marshall's that night. We had a really good drive with very little traffic and two passing two 8.5 wide loads carrying truck bodies. We had our first radio com (1 Van No Plan CH 40) from a lady that was travelling down to Ipswich for a wedding on the weekend. She had previously lived in Sarina and had 9 kids!! We lost her somewhere after road works with the truckie that we were following. He was doing a great job of sticking to the speed limit and then all of a sudden a unmarked white Lancer north of Gin Gin flashed his lights and started to turn around on the side of the road to pull him over. We did hear a Hilux mentioned in some of the radio com but the truckie and us were dead set sure we were on the 90 km speed limit so he pulled over but we went on.
Our lunch stop was at Gin Gin and the car and caravan was skillfully parked down the back of the car park out of sight. Now were just waiting to see if we get a letter in the mail.
On the road again we programed the address into the GPS and followed all the directions from Gympie and beyond!!
Karen (the GPS lady) seriously got it wrong this time. We took a turn that said to Mount Mothar and the road was apparently suppose to link up to Kin Kin near Pomona. Well we started along this road and we came into a state forest with some sort of ranger station at the entrance thinking that it looked sort of ok even though it there was a 4wd only sign not far up the road. Karen still insisted on telling us to continue for 10 km until all of a sudden she says "find the nearest road when possible". We are on the nearest road that you told us to go on!!!!! and then the road disappeared off the GPS all together!! Unfortunately we had no option towing a caravan but to continue until we could find somewhere suitable to turn around. Eventually we had no choice when there was a section of the road would have left us bogged for a week so Andrew had to reverse the caravan (in 4wd this time) back into the bush, take off the caravan to turn the car around an then hitch it back on so we could return the way we came. On the way back down Karen found our location again and said "do a u turn when possible"!!!!! ARGHHHHH!!!!!
What we are thankful for on that surprise adventure was seeing 2 wild goats wandering the road and seeing a bush turkey. Without them the kids would of really been distraught because there was a lot of tears when the bush turned to rainforest and there was talk of us being lost and then came the "I want to go home" from Declan. All is a days work of caravanning with the Hurrell's.
We were anticipating an arrival time at the Marshall's by 3pm but after our ordeal we arrived around 5:30 with me (Sam) having some sort of delayed reaction to the flu with experiencing chills and fever. Thankfully they offered us their cottage to stay in on their beautiful property because I don't think any of us would have been capable of setting up the caravan in the dark. And this is only Day 2!