I drove down to Port Maquarie with a little time to spare, so when I saw the signs for 'R12 Tourist Drive to Port Maquarie' I decided to follow them, after driving for about forty minutes I came to a T junction in each direction was a sign 'R12 Tourist Drive' after about three of these fantastic directional signs I ended up lost and fairly low on fuel, so did a U turn.Australia is great for a lot of things but sign posts it isn't. Like most towns my first chore ...

I arrived in Coffs Harbour early evening to establish that there was nothing there worth seeing, so I found a camp site and recharged my batteries before moving on the following morning. My next stop was Dorrigo National Park, about three hour south of Coffs Harbor, Dorrigo is about 100km inland and is home to some spectacular scenery.I drove up the mountains along Waterfall Way, meandering along the hill sides stopping to look at the views as the rainforest str...

I finally arrived in Hervey Bay, a small little town much like any other Australian town so far.It has two things to offer trips to Fraser Island and whale watching.Knowing this I arrived specifically on the Wednesday, as the tour company only runs the Fraser Island trips three times a week, one of which being on Thursdays.I booked in only to find out there were not enough people to run the trip and I would have to wait until Saturday for a larger group. I was a...

The drive from Townsville was only a few hours, I stopped at Ayr and Bowen on the way through, both fairly mundane farming towns surrounded by mile after mile after mile of sugar can it was at this point that I realised that North Queensland like much of Australia so far was a whole lot of nothing with not much in between. Still I pulled in to Arlie Beach, which seemed to be a fairly buzzing town.Only small, but with the biggest marina close to the Whitsundays a...

I'd always intended on making the journey south from Carnes to Melbourne on the Greyhound but taking the camper up north for a week changed my mind.I'm not sure if it was the fact that I missed driving so much or that I loved the freedom of being able to stop wherever I wanted, not being restricted by bus timetables and pre planned routes. So I negotiated a good deal with the camper rental company and started the epic drive south to Melbourne. The drive out fro...