We have made it a little further down the coast to Hervey Beach, overlooking Fraser Island, just north of Brisbane. We have driven nearly 3000km since leaving Cairns and we are still in Queensland and have only turned the page in our road atlas once! I think we have settled back into camping again now, the nights are getting earlier and we are forced to get up by 8am because of the heat. The campsites here are a world apart from the ones we stayed at in Africa. ...

We arrived in Townsville on Tuesday 14th October and booked into a campsite for two nights. It was bit of a let down as it was a good five kilometers from Townsville and it was set on a very busy A road but we made the most of it. We took a drive into Townsville…… It was not what we where expecting! The town centre is getting ready to be rebuilt so most of the shops where shut or closing down. There was very little to do other than walk along the esplanade ...

We are now in Northern Queensland having left "Rosie & Tosanne" after a wet bank holiday weekend! We arrived in Cairns and spent a couple of nights there. Didn't really like Cairns it's full of backpackers! We picked up a hire car and went up the coast to Port Douglas, via Ellis Beach and Yorkies Knob. We spent a couple of nights in Port Douglas in our new tent and explored up to the Cape of Tribulation. On our way south we drove inland to the Ca...