The reasons we decided to visit Agnes Water Town of 1770 were to do the Scooteroo tour and to do some surfing. - The surf is rubbish - The trip is booked up for 2 days We have driven 100km out of the way and sat in the campervan all day. But in a strange way we have really enjoyed it! It's not often that we can't do anything. Amber and Tom have had the message that we will be with them a day early! Can't wait! M & C xxxx

900km....10 hours to go.... Today was our major drive and we were determined not to swerve from the plan. We set off on a driving schedule, 1 hour each for 10 hours, quick toilet stops and a 20 minute lunch at 12:00. We are so in the campervan club now and campers all love each other! This is expressed by the frantic waving, flashing of lights and beeping of horns as you drive past another campervan. Surprisingly this makes time pass quite quickly. We stuck ...

Guess what....we slept a full night! But payback was still on our minds as we had an early start to pick the camper up. When we first signed up to the $1 campervan, we decided that we would take the risk with no insurance and just put a $3000 bond down incase of accident. However after the thoughts of losing $3000 at this stage in our trip we bottled in and paid $30 per day for stress free insurance. 1750km to go.... Plan of Day 1 = Cairns to Townsville 35...

Rain, rain and more rain. This meant one thing....shopping. With winter in NZ on its way we needed some warm clothes. An early morning bargain hunt was on in cairns due to another sleepless night. Our two German room mates thought at 4am it was ok to come in and have a conversation at over full volume, sit laughing and then sit waiting for their illegal room mate to make an appearance for an hour. At least we had had an early night so when we couldn't get back to...

It's a shame the Gilligans 'Resort' doesn't come with the clientele. This was clear when first of all, we had a random enter the room, throwing cereal at the people in bed (who were off on a trip at 6am). Matt can not stand 'travelers' who are just here to get paraletic every night - you can do that in England. The offender's face dropped when he got a face full of cereal in return and the death stare from Matt. The next incident occurred when Char was woken up a...