1st April - 4th April Brisbane The flight was a nice and short and got a great view of the Aussie coast that would have taken us 3 days of continuous driving . We didn't book in advance, and were pretty shocked to find that nearly all the hostels and backpackers were full apart from one, where they could squeeze us into a 6 bed dorm. We found the room to be a nightmare, it was inhabited by 4 very messy young lads that had stuff all over the floor that we could...

23rd March - 31st March Cairns and Great Barrier Reef Days spent:Cairns: 9 As we only had a few days left with the Hippie Camper, we tried to make the most of the area around Cairns, these being Kuranda, SkyRail, Palm Cove, the Atherton Tablelands, and Mossman Gorge again. The first thing we did, was go to AJ Hacketts to watch people bungy jump, as we thought this would be great entertainment. Unfortunately, we only saw one person and she didn't make a sound...

19th - 22nd Port Douglas to Cape Tribulation Days spent:Port Douglas: 2Cape Tribulation: 2 As the journey back from Cooktown down to Cape Tribulation would take several hours, we decided to stop over at Port Douglas before heading north again. The drive was long, hot and dry and so noisy that our ears were hurting. We didn't want to put the air-con on (as it's expensive) so we just had the windows opened. When we did come to stop, we had to empty the cabin of m...

13th March - 18th March Cairns to Cooktown Days spent:Cairns: 3Cooktown: 3 We were lucky to find the worse effected areas of the flooding had gone down by the time we got Tully (see pics) which was on the way to Cairns. We eventually found ourselves in Cairns just after it had rained, so it was extremely humid and almost unbearable. We looked at a few campsites, one being by the Barron river near a lake, then one in the city. We chose the city one as it was wa...

5th March - 12th March Airlie Beach to Mission Beach Days spent:Airlie Beach: 4Townsville/Magnetic Island: 2Mission Beach: 2 After a long journey, of over 600km, we came to the tourist town of Airlie Beach, the best place to go if you want to see The Whitsunday Islands. The weather was pretty bad and initially we had planned only 3 days here, but this was to be extended. We spent some time looking at brochures of excursions to the Whitsundays, there are many. ...