From Lake Tinaroo we headed to the Daintree to get on the ferry across to Cape Tribulation.The winding road led us to the camp site I had planned to stay at, yet on arrival they were still shut for the wet season so we continued on the winding roads to Cape Trib Camping, one of…
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Townsville|Mission Beach| Atherton Tablelands
Once we left the Whitsundays, knowing we will return one day, we headed north past the big mango then onto Townsville. By now the nice weather had passed and we were back to windy, raining but stinking hot weather, also known as the wet season in the tropics. We spent longer than expected in Townsville…
QLD Coast, Gemfields & Whitsundays
We left Noosa, and headed for inland to the Sunshine Coast Hinterland. We didn’t get far up the road to Emundi before realising we had a problem with our caravan lights. Which lead us to the nearest supercheap auto which then led us to a free camp at the back of a sports ground in….we…
Noosa/ Fraser Island
We are back on the road, after celebrating Christmas, New year, Birthdays, Hens and Bucks parties, a wedding and catching up with all our family and friends back in Perth. After the 6 weeks we were ready to get back on the road for another holiday. We flew into Brisbane where we had left our…
East Coast, again
After doing an outback loop, working for 2 months and then down to outback NSW, Sydney we were now back on the east coast again. We had missed a lot the first time coming up the coast as we were rushed to get to Byron in time for a music festival, Splendour in the grass….
Outback Queensland to the coast
We left Kilmorey, with our bank accounts topped up we, we were back on the road and back on holidays. Our next destination was Carnarvon Gorge, which we had never heard of before getting a tip off from the family we just worked for. From Kilmorey we took a short cut by travelling along the…
Kilmorey
Once our friends left us we spent the next couple of days in Longreach camping by the river for $3 a night. We saw all the main tourist sites from the Stockman’s Hall of fame, to where the first Qantas plane was built and we spent a day travelling to the nearby town of Barcaldine…
Betoota|Birdsville|Bedourie|Boulia
We arrived in the Ghost town of Betoota, with a population of zero. The population used to be 1, he was the Publican who is now buried behind the ruins of the pub. The only other thing left in Betoota is the race coarse which comes alive once a year for the Betoota races. Caravans…
Outback Queensland
We left Caboolture and headed inland for our outback Queensland adventure. Having 2 weeks to get to Birdsville we slowly made our way west stopping the first night a free camp at Lake Clarendon. We spent the afternoon going for a long walk along the dam wall where we saw the biggest water rat we…
Brisbane
We arrived in sunny Brisbane, reunited with my cousin after not seeing each other since Christmas, we caught up on the past 6 months and old times. We where lucky enough to stay inside at my cousin’s house where we spent the next couple of days spending time with her young family and checking out…
Byron to Brisbane
We arrived in beautiful Byron and we were very excited to see our friends, but first we had some time to kill before they arrived. We set up camp in the Discovery caravan park on a powered site before riding our bikes into town to have a look around, this was the easiest way to…