After the Great barrier reef experience the first thing we wanted to do was get out of Cairns. It is not the fact we did'nt like Cairns, it is very beautiful and all that, but we just don't seem to enjoy cities speed of life anymore, maybe it's because we have been to so many over the last 9 months. Anyway a visit to Queensland is not really complete unless you go and see where our Yorkshire Hero Captain James Cook came to shore in 1770, so we headed upto Cape ...

We set off from Uluru prepared for the 5 day drive of 3000 kilometres to Cairns. We were not looking forward to it, but knew that once we reached the East coast there was not much driving to be done. The drive was pretty uneventful, staying at free rest areas all the way, which meant that Matthew could get his teeth into cooking on open fires! The scenery was really bare and a bitboaring really until we reached Queensland. As we were heading to the North of Queen...