Cairns We headed down the coast and spent a week at Mossman which allowed us to again visit the Mossman Gorge which we first went to some fifteen years ago on our previous holiday to Cairns and Port Douglas. Our next stop was Cairns for a week to catch up with Dave’s cousin Claire and her husband David who were holidaying in Queensland. The weather for the week was very wet and this curtailed our movements and also caused us to shelf plans to head out to t...

Cooktown After spending just short of a month at Atherton in the lovely tablelands west of Cairns, we spent a night at Granite Gorge where we got close up and personal with numerous Mareeba Rock Wallabies as well as some strenuous rock climbing (see Christine's photo). We then headed up the York Peninsula stopping over night at Mt Carbine with its many birds and wildlife before driving to Endeavour Falls about 32Km north of Cooktown. While seeing the sights of ...

Atherton We spent three days at Charters Towers then travelled on to Atherton in the Tablelands of Queensland. We found a lovely caravan park just 15 minutes from the town of Atherton set up for a few weeks. Sadly we had some bad news from home that Christine’s sister Jenny had passed away after suffering a stroke which meant that we flew back to Perth for a week to attend her funeral.

Toowoomba & Emerald From Glen Innes we travelled north into Queensland spending several days in Toowoomba which gave us an opportunity to get our car serviced and replace a couple of car tyres. Toowoomba was badly flooded in January of this year, the results of which were still very evident in the town centre as well as in its many parks and gardens. After Toowoomba we continued north to Emerald and spent three nights at nearby Lake Maraboon which is said...

Glen Innes, NSW After Coonabarabran our next stop was Tamworth for an overnight stay en-route to the Australian Celtic Festival in Glen Innes. In Tamworth we visited the "Walk a Country Mile" interpretive centre exhibiting the history of Australian country music.Unfortunately we then had problems with our car alarm and immobilizer so spent the afternoon with a visit from the NRMA and a new battery installation! We stayed a week in Glen Innes which all...