With our 5 week adventure in Australia coming to an end we had two days left to spend in Cairns where we finally arrived three weeks and 5,160 kms after picking up the Jucy crib, I can now officially report Joanna’s contribution to the driving was a whopping 200kms (and I’m rounding up there). Cairns was like Townsville, completely different to what we expected with loads of cafes, bars and restaurants lining the Esplanade there was plenty of choice for an e...

After a short stop in Airlie Beach for a bite to eat and a few drinks we arrived in Townsville pretty late at night so decided to pull into a local petrol station car park to get some sleep….. the drive was the most distressing for Jo to date thanks to the hundreds of frogs that like to chill out in the middle of the unlit pacific highway during the night! Townsville is advertised as the second biggest city in Queensland so after our travels in NSW and Victori...

As the weather was amazing we decided to pull over on our way to Mackay and enjoy breakfast in the glorious sunshine surrounded by hundreds of beautiful butterflies, it was certainly more enjoyable than corn flakes at 47 Park Row! We arrived in the small town of Mackay where we decided to chill out for the day enjoying a nice walk around the botanical gardens before spending the afternoon exploring the surrounding area where we were lucky to come across the very...

After leaving Noosa we hit the Pacific Highway once more stopping to sleep in Gympie (not much going on) followed by a morning at Rainbow Beach, we were going to go for a walk in the Great Sandy National Park but after the first 200m resembled an actual bush walk with lizards flying out in front of Jo she decided that was enough and retreated back to the camper! We reached Hervey Bay later that afternoon and began searching out our Fraser Island trip, we had bee...

After a brief evening stop in Brisbane and deciding there is really not much more to do having already spent a fair amount of time in cities we hit the road again....... We must have liked the night driving as we decided to do it again on our way to Noosa Heads; Lonely Planet had warned this is a tricky place to go without a map due to the stupid number of roundabouts and it was not wrong, we felt like we had gone round in circles all night before we eventually ...