We woke to hear the pitter patter of rain so were not impressed as we had decided to stay another night at mission beach and have a beach day today! The tide was in so instead of 15 steps to sand, it was 15 steps to water! The sea was really rough and there were plenty of clouds about but that didn't deter us! We stayed anyway! We had our first meal inside the camper, first of 3 for today, and we pottered around doing bits and bobs! The rain eventually cleared a...

Another beautiful morning and another good night sleep! We enjoyed our breakfast by the lake! We decided that we were going to head to Mission Beach today and begin our journey down the coast. We had a bit of trouble finding the correct way out of the village, the roads out here aren't particularly well sign posted! Mark went to ask for a map and directions from the information centre and had a lovely chat with a lady who used to teach in London. Using the map w...

We had a good night sleep and it wasn't as hot as we thought it would be. We got sorted and had brekkie and headed towards the information centre. We decided there wasn't great deal to see or do in Mareeba and so headed down to Atherton instead. We had a mooch about town and got our snorkeling photo's developed. Atherton was less touristy than the other places we have visited and it was nice to see a 'real' Australian town. We then went to a lookout called Hol...

Today is officially the first day of the summer, not that you would have noticed, as it's been so hot! We left Port Douglas to head back to Cairns to pick up the camper! We took Holly back to the rental place and they were due to take us to collect the camper but because it was returned late the previous day, it was delayed in being ready for us. So, to fill the time we went for a mooch in the shopping centre, again!! When we returned we were very excited as the...

After a brilliant night sleep we headed to reception to wait for the people to come with the new wheels. We were waiting a while and were expecting a proper 'rac' style van but when a couple turned up in a car and started looking at Holly we realised we were wrong! They were family of people who worked for the hire company and were on holiday and offered to come out and fix our car! How lovely of them! Once Holly was sorted we set off on our way. We made a few s...