Day 73 Townsville - Ayr - Bowen - Airlie Beach "get your motor runnin, head out on the highway...." Headwind.... We woke to grey skies this morning. First time in over 10 weeks the sky wasn't cloudless and blue! Before getting back on the road we decided to drive back to The Strand and maybe have a swim at the lagoon at the beach. Too windy though and even though the water temp was ok, no one was interested. We walked along the beachfront and out onto the je...

Day 72 Lucinda - Ingham - Townsville "Let's be kids again Life was so simple then Let's be kids, again......" If we only had another week...... We left Lucinda at 8.30 to head further south towards Townsville. From there we were just going to see what eventuated - and that was nothing as it turned out. We stopped at Ingham to fuel and them drove a short distance to the Tyto wetlands. Cayden has developed a big interest in birds this trip - he has always lo...

Day 71 Cairns - Paronella Park - Innisfail - Tully - Cardwell - Lucinda "Get on that sugar train There is some place For everyone....." We became sugar experts today! Well not exactly growing the cane but once Farmer Joe hacks it into little pieces - we're good from there ! We awoke to Pancake breakfast day at the park in Cairns - put on free every Thursday. The kids have been hanging for this since we arrived! They each ate 3 full plate sized pancakes with...

Day 70 Cairns - Lake Barrine - Yungaburra - Atherton - Mareeba - Kuranda - Palm Cove - Cairns "I was drivin drivin drivin down the 101...." Today was a tourist driving day. We left Cairns at 9 and headed back into the mountains for a look around. We drove up the narrow winding road to the to overlooking Cairns and up to Port Douglas and the Daintree. Our first stop was Lake Barrine where we looked at the Curtain Fig tree where a fig has moulded into and kil...

Day 69 Cairns "lifestyles of the rich and the famous, they're always complaining......" Did the drive by of Cairns today. Stopped by the Esplanade to watch the Howells board their GBR helicopter to wherever on the Barrier Reef. Thurston dressed as usual of course and Luvvy looked a treat too ! That excitement over we drove by all the usual Cairns sights before returning home via the Stockland Shopping centre and off course Dan Murphy's. The afternoon was spe...