The excellent adventure begins. Thank you family for housing us. Was a lovely opportunity to see Nanna Nancy, Caroline, Andrew and Tracey. We did a last minute shop of essentials... Namely drugs. No right minded tummy bug will come near our bodies. Brisbane airport is our first stop. Note we actually needed to be at the domestic terminal not the international terminal but we worked it out. First exciting event - we set eyes on the tallest man in Austral...

A sleepless night. Sadly it turned out that the damage to Mission beach and Cardwell is devastating to say the least, cutting all roads north and for us access to all airports. After many phone calls to Jetstar, Virgin Blue and AAMI travel insurance we didn't have many option to work with. We couldn't claim any loss until an "official" cancelation was made by the airline ..... Sneaky b*****s suspended flights rather than canceled them. We were luckily able ...

The tip that almost wasn't. It started like most other trips, months of planning. Time and effort laid to waste as the greatest threat to North Queensland in five years screamed to wards the coast. Cyclone Yasi currently a category 4, was gaining speed and momentum. Avril's great idea was to GET THE HELL OUT OF THE WAY, although it wasn't fully appreciated at the time by Luke it turned out to be a good idea. Heading towards Proserpine was option two of thr...