First bush camp of the trip and what a beauty! Well sort of a bush camp if you can call living in our Taj Mahal caravan, camping. Gorgeous spot off the road in the scrub. We can’t understand why the grey nomads stop right on the busy roadside. Although when 3 roadtrains carrying stock rattled past our quiet spot at once, we were wondering what we had done! Luckily the only traffic for the night.

We are now Cairns bound. An unscheduled detour due to a sister and niece in hospital and new baby Arlo. I remember a wise person at the start of this trip telling me to be ready for changes to our plans.

I had a hard time convincing the boys to go high enough up the coast to stop at Airley Beach for me. Now I am taking them to Cairns by road instead of flying in like we normally do. The reward will be seeing family and making them soup.