Beautiful weather again so sat outside for breakfast watching fish jumping out of the water! Amazing! Packed up and drove to Aldi for a restock and then drove to Yuraygir National Park and found a spot near Lake Arragan. There were several possible campsites but we weren’t sure whether the one we had stopped at was overnight or day use so we drove down another road to one of the other sites listed. The trees were quite close together snd the further we drove th...

Left Murwillumbah by about 9:00am in more glorious weather. Turned left instead of right out of the Showgrounds as the GPS hadn’t quite kicked in and ended up driving along the Tweed Valley Way, a hilly windy road but with lovely scenery. Arrived in Ballina an hour or so later and settled into the Reflections Caravan Park. The internal road was a little tight and I narrowly missed knocking over a plastic waste skip which I noticed was on wheels and would probab...

Departure day from Noosa (Camp Cooroora) today sadly as it has been one of the nicest places we’ve stayed at. Chatting to the manager’s wife she told us that the place is going to be bulldozed in a couple of years time to build a new dam wall. What a shame. Drove down the Hwy to the Glasshouse Mountains and to the scenic lookout which had been improved since I was last there. Had coffee and took in the view before driving through Brisbane via the Gateway Brid...

Awoke to sunshine and low flying aircraft! My former work collegue John was camped nearby in another caravan park so we arranged to go for a bike ride from Kirra Beach to Currumbin Creek. Lots of others had similar plans but it was lovely to see the Pacific Ocean again after being in the outback! (well, the edge of the outback at least!) John and his partner came to our park for afternoon tea and we were also invited to the Horse Races during the afternoon in th...

After I wrote yesterdays blog we donned our swimming togs and went (in the dark) to the local artesian bore. The water temp is just over 40degC! Lots of people there and all floodlit. Fantastic! (couldn’t stay in too long as too hot) Another clear, sunny and mild day. Even had a tee shirt on by midday! After breakfast went to the ‘Chambers of the Black Hand Mine’ an underground attraction where one man who, not doing so well at opal mining, turned his han...