Mackay, Australia

“Let’s Google a city I have lived in to see if it looks worth visiting”

Websites of places you have lived I feel is a worthy topic. K is too busy with work and eBay to actually get her blogging fingers on. Since we are more or less up to date (minus info and photos of a couple of trips to Abu Dhabi and Dubai) I thought I would keep the content going. Of course this poses the question as to what content comes next. Like the last blog this one is just going to be organic so of course there will be content on Al Ain and the UAE, but other times it will just have something that decides to fly out from brain to keyboard without it turning into too much of a brain-dump-blog (which of course is not a bad name for a blog anyway).

So after looking and being rather disappointed by the immediate online content from Masterton, I thought I would see if my next home fared any better in my “Let’s Google a city I have lived in to see if it looks worth visiting”.

Mackay City Council – Typical council kind of website that really does nothing to instill a desire to visit the place.
Move to Mackay – Moving to Mackay? Fill in the survey and they will give you $25 when you arrive. Reminds me of the Simpsons Movie when Homer gets the cash for crossing into Alaska, just on a VERY small scale!
Mackay Tourism – See there are websites out there that can make somewhere I have lived look inviting! The only problem here is you have to use “mackay” or “mackay tourism” as the keywords and not “mackay queensland” or “mackay australia” otherwise the site gets lost in pages that most likely wont be reached.

I suppose this time it is more to do with search engine optimisation rather than just bad sites. I was looking forward to seeing bungee jumping Australian wildlife but I guess it was not to be.