We woke up round 6am excited to get to Barnacles cafe and feed some Dolphins, as you do. Background story? Well, basically in the 1950s' a dolphin was injured and came to this cove by Barnacles cafe where the locals cared for her until she was well enough to leave. Since then, 4 generations of her family have come back every morning to be fed and interact with visitors before they swim off to get on with their day out in the big blue. We stand in a really small...

We got up around 6 am and were picked up at 7.40am by Unique Tours guide Troy, who was thrilled (and told us) that we weren't posh. Thankfully we had a great bunch in our 4wd excursion, two couples, who were related, from New Zealand in their 50s. They were great Craic and Troy himself was brilliant - full of jokes all day, not always appropriate but we couldn't help but laugh. The other guide had a bunch of the most unfriendly drips in his wagon, we were lucky ...

We are having to wait a day for our Fraser Island tour so we take today off as a rest day - Matt's been constantly driving so needs a bit of a break and as it's a sunny day we decide a pool day is ideal. We find another campsite on Hervey Bay called colonial YHA, it's $30 and comes with a pool, restaurant, gorgeous grounds and the luxury of an indoor shared kitchen with a sofa and TV!! We chill by the pool for a few hours topping up the tans, Jacq walks to the s...

A lot of driving involved in today getting to Hervey Bay from Airlee beach - it's a total of 10.5 hours but we feel it best to make tracks so we can get good weather at Fraser Island. We drove the scenic route and found a national park that was supposed to have the most amazing views. Typical us we discover the camper is not meant for such rough roads, the area although beautiful, looked a bit too remote and then we spot a sign threatening to shoot dogs if they ...

What a way to spend Valentines Day! Having parked up last night in what we thought was a dedicated rest stop - as advertised online - we are pretty miffed to discover a parking ticket for $225 on our windscreen - gutted in fact. We take pictures of the signs saying RV parking etc. and decide not to let it ruin the day - well email later to see if we can appeal. Trust us! Shame as we drove 30 mins out of Airlee to park here thinking we were doing it above board a...