After staying in Cape Tribulation for two nights, we continued our mini road trip of tropical Queensland by going to Port Douglas for three more nights. On the way there we stopped off in Daintree to go on a wildlife cruise of the Daintree River. It turned out to be really good and one of the best thing I have done in the last few weeks, that is when we finally arrived. The van decided to breakdown on the way there, which scared us for a bit as it was in the midd...

After having been in Cairns for about a week, we thought it was about time we did some more exploring, so Justin, Chris and I decided to head up north. We packed up in Chris's campervan and off we went. First of all though, I had to make a quick stop to buy a new camera (after the one I had decided to break) so I could record our adventures. We had booked at a hostel right in centre of Cape Tribulation for two nights to start with, but on the way we made a stop a...

This blog will cover the first week we were in Cairns before we left to go to Cape Tribulation and Port Douglas. Unfortunatley there isn't really much to say! Since arriving we have realised that we now need to be much more careful with our spending, and there isn't really much to do in Cairns itself apart from sunbathe, shop and go out at night. Most of the activites are trips outside, which would be fine if we had more money! We arrived in the afternoon after t...

When we left Townsville for Mission Beach we left in style! For the first time we ditched the Greyhound and travelled up with Chris in his campervan, that looks a lot like the bus in Scooby Doo. It was much more fun than travelling on a coach, and surprisingly not any less comfortable. Mission Beach is a lovely, beautiful place but very small and quiet. It was much further off the main track than we expected, and we passed an amazing number of signs warning about...

Magnetic Island is an island off the coast of Townsville, a couple for hours south of Cairns. We stayed in Townsville the night before so we could get up early and make the most of the first day there. I'll write a bit about Townsville in this blog as we were only there for one night either side of staying on Magnetic Island and didn't really do much. It has a reputation of being a bit of a dump, but I didn't think that at all, and the area around our hostel was ...