After leaving Coolangatta, we were heading south into New South Wales and back towards Sydney. We drove straight down to Byron Bay, after a bit of a drive around, we eventually settled on a caravan park about 5k south of Byron, in a place called Suffolk Park. The van site was lovely, with direct access to Tallows Beach and the best part was that they had a deal on for backpackers so we got 4 nights for the price of 2! We spent the next few days enjoying the chill...

On our way to Brisbane from Noosa, we stopped in a town called Yandina to visit the world famous Buderim Ginger Factory! OMG It was amazing! We are both massive fans of anything ginger flavoured so were very excited to tour the factory and see how they make all things ginger. We saw how they harvest the ginger, select what's going to be used for which product and how they preserve the ginger ready for use in all our favourite ginger flavoured items. We also had a...

After our Whitsunday adventure, we left Airlie Beach to head further south, towards Rockhampton. We knew it was going to be a long drive, so we left early and made our way along the Bruce Highway. On the way down, the scenery began to change, we'd been in tropical rainforest surroundings also far in Queensland but now the landscape was becoming less tropical and more like we are used to seeing in the English countryside. After a few hours on the undulating roads,...

After a week in Cairns and the surrounding area, the day we had been anticipating had arrived, it was time to pick up our campervan! Although we've loved every minute of our travels so far, we were hugely looking forward to not being restricted by bus timetables or hostel availability and having a bit of independence for the last 5 weeks of our travels. We hopped on a bus and arrived bright an early at 8.30am to be introduced to "Bob". Bob is, as an estate agent ...

After a 4 hour flight from Perth and a 2 hour time difference, we arrived in Cairns at 4.30am and hopped on the shuttle bus that would take us to our hostel. The hostel had kindly given us the access code to get in so that we could crash in their lounge room until reception opened at 7am, which we took full advantage of! At 10am we were able to get into our room but all we could think about was sleep, so we spent the next few hours catching up on sleep. We were q...