Got to Mount Carbine at 11:00am, pretty different from what we've been experiencing up the coast. The landscape is dry and dirt. The caravan park is much the same. Very basic with power and bore water (obviously not consuming) and amenities. Its cheap at $18/night and we get to leave the vam here for nothing while we do The Cape. We quickly set up camp just doing the basic as were only staying a night. Spent the arvo sorting out our stuff we needed for the next ...

Tomorrow were leaving Cairns and heading to Mount Carbine to stay a night and dump the caravan before starting the Cape. The last few days have been heated, and not from the weather! Was bound to happen after spending 24/7 together. Yes that's right, after 9 weeks of being in each others face Marty and l had our first big blow up. There were times when we both thought the trip was going to end, but after a couple of days of venting and being grumpy with one anot...

Well the hope for a better nights sleep was unrealistic. The truck that had it's generator going didn't leave and was noisy all night. The trucks were also noisy passing by on the highway. Oh well, what can you do hey? So we woke, or should l say got out of bed, at 7:00am and were packed up and on the road by 8:15am. We were set Cairns today, so that meant another 369kms. I think everyone was looking forward to getting to a caravan park and staying put for a co...

Got out of bed around 6:15am after a night of restless sleep die to the trucks going by!!! Also Boo needed to go to the toilet at 3:30am, so we are all a bit weary but hopefully the next rest stop is off the road a bit. The plan is to do another big drive today to reach Home Hill rest stop around 3pm. We packed up and swapped contact details with the young couple we met and were on the road at 7:30am. The drive to Mackay was wonderful with the scenery changing ...

Today we said farewell to Hervey Bay and set off to head to our destination of Yaamba. We were packed up and headed off at 9:00am (still can't crack this start). Our first pit stop was Bundaberg. It was a beautiful trip with fields of sugar cane and the trains. We headed to the Bundaberg Rum Distillary to have a geese. Took some pics (blog photo) and then headed off to out next our stop to the town of 1770. We didn't take the tour of the Bunde building for two ...