We drove to a free campsite a few hours away from Cairns, we had a nice spot right next to a forest. After we had finished dinner and the sun had gone down we could all hear rustles in the forest and it was getting louder. Gem thought it was a kangaroo but when we shined the torch towards the noise a bid possum was staring back at us! It wasn´t shy at all and let us follow it back into the forest. It has to be said that none of us were too sure what it was a...

That night we stayed in a free beach campsite that had showers, bit of a treat for us after staying in the desert for so long. We celebrated being back in civilisation with style, curry and pasta and a box of goon! The folowing morning we cooked breakfast then started our journey to our next stop, Mission Beach. On the way we saw a sign for Paluma Range National Park and Jourama Waterfalls. We decided to take a bit of a detour as we had time and it was such a...

The next morning we didn´t even cook breakfast, we just packed up the van and left. Needed to get as far away as possible from those frogs in the loo! After a couple of hours driving we stopped off at a place called Wycliffe Well, this is the site of the most UFO landings in the whole of Australia! Really it was just a petrol station in the middle of nowhere, we couldn´t even see any houses around. But, they had made a real go of attracting tourists with Al...