Agnes Water/1770When we first arrived in Oz everyone told us to visit a little place on the coast called 1770, this is where Captain Cook arrived in the year 1770!Everyone has raved on about it so we decided to include it in our little adventure.It was 'one of those drives' that got us here, we left Rockhampton thinking that the drive would only be about 40km but 2 and a half hours later we were still driving, stupidly we hadn't filled the petrol tank and drove f...

Well after the delights of sitting on a yacht sunbathing and lying on gorgeous islands having the cooking and cleaning done for us, it was time to get back in the van and hit the road. The distances between sights to see is getting longer now but we had to stop in Eungella National Park a tip from our very own personal Aussie tour guide Gabe. This visit give us a chance to do some more platypus spotting, and relax by campfires at nite with bake potatoes goon an...

We arrived into Airlie Beach with on thing in mind the Whitsundays, this is a bunch of 74 islands off Airlie beach and they are all secluded and beautiful. We dicided to take a 3 day and 2 night sailing trip out to them to do a bit of snorkelling and sailing. It was one of the hardest choices to make decidingon what boat to take as we had heard all about these 'party boats' and boats that you just get ripped off on. We thought about it and decided that a small...

We got to townsville and decided to really cheap it out and stay on a BP Petrol Station site, (its not all funa nd games you know) so we got down and dirty with a load of truckers! Actually there were some of the best showers and facilities that we had used yet, got to make the most of every shower we have now! Townsville is the type of place that you could actually settle down and live, theres a port there and a lovely stretch of beach, along the beach they ha...

From the Atherton Tablelands we made our way to Mission Beach back on the trail a little as we are sick of the brush turkey's company. We camped up on the local council campsite that was full of Aussie gypsies. These people know how to live they spend there whole lives liveing out of big double decker busues that they have converted into houses with tv's, air conditioning even gardens and travel round Australia living on cheap campsites drinking beer. We didn't ...