This morning I was awoken by Daniel at around 08:00 knocking on the side of my van as he was heading home and wanted to give me his mobile number and said that if I make it down to Melbourne then I should call him and come and stay for a couple of nights. I said that I should be down there around the 20th September and that I would give him a call when I get a bit nearer to see what he is up to.As I was now awake, I decided to go and get a shower and head off ea...

It wasn't too much of a late night last night as I had booked a full day kayaking around the Whitsunday Islands today. www.saltydog.com.auI get picked up at the hostel at around 08:30 and driven to the port where the kayaking starts and then we are told to watch an induction video while they get the equipment ready. Everyone gets a double kayak and I ask if I can have a single one. At this point I get told that there is no full day trip as there were not e...

Yet another early start today as I wanted to visit the Billabong Sanctuary in time for feeding the koala's at 8am. So I headed out in the van and go to the sanctuary just before 8 to see that it was closed and didn’t open until 08:30 and that the flier that I had must have been out of date or they had changed their opening times as it was off season. So I waited for it to open and was the first person in there just like a big kid (with an SLR!!!).www....

I started out early today as I knew that I had to drive about 180km to the start of the outback over to Charters Towers. Along the way I clocked up first 1000km in the camper van and I had only gone 350km south of Cairns so far.History lesson number 1.....Charters Towers is a city in northern Queensland, Australia. It is located 137 kilometers inland (south-west) from Townsville on the Flinders Highway. In 2006 the population was 7,979 people, some 450 fewer tha...

Today I had a 240km drive to do from Mission Beach down to Townsville and at lunchtime I pulled into Frances Creek Rest Area where I sat and ate my lunch on one of the picnic benches there. I was joined by an Aussie guy on a motorbike called Dave who told me about his most recent accident on his bike and that he was driving to Townsville to have another scan on his back at the hospital down there as he had an operation on his back after the accident and was goin...