After our prolonged farm stay at Emu Park we thought it was time to start heading back south again, for two reasons - firstly just timing, to get back to Victoria as the weather improves (hopefully), but secondly we had a problem with the air conditioning in the van. We knew this was an issue and George had ordered some things online to fix it, but they hadn't arrived by the time we left. This means we can't run air conditioning as we drive, and we really can't o...

On our previous trip eight years ago we had gone through Maryborough on a miserable day - it was cold and windy and rainy. We could see it was a nice town with lots of historical buildings, but we just couldn't stay to look. We had moved on to Hervey Bay - the rain had stopped but it was still grey and dull. The beach was long and muddy looking, especially as the tide was out. We had stayed in a caravan park at the back of town which was crowded and ugly, so our ...