The Campervan Adventures Chapter 7...'Are we there yet Mum?..'Time for a detox and a couple of days on the road to reach our next destination- Airlie Beach.We're over halfway through our five weeks on the road now and (bar the first days calamity) we're really enjoying the drive. Airlie is about 850km up the Queensland coast from Hervey Bay and so we have two quite long journeys to our two stopover points. Long drives coupled with needing to recover from all th...

The Campervan Adventures Chapter 6.. 'Dangerous Sam and the pasta explosion..'Fraser Island- a world heritage listed sand island- was our destination for our three day 4x4 tag-along tour. As described by the Lonely Planet Fraser is "an ecological wonderland like nowhere else on earth". As described by me, Fraser is "like being in Jurassic Park, only with dingos not dinosaurs".There were about 50 of us in total on the trip and we were split in...

The Camper Van Adventures..Chapter 5.. 'As if we can surf...' Who needs scuba diving when you can surf. Scuba diving is for wimps, anyone can sink to the bottom of the sea and swim about looking at fish. Surfing is much more skillful- practically the equivalent of walking on water. And we did it. We actually did it. Obviously we fell off a lot, got battered by waves, copped a few board bashes in the face and ended up having various embarrassing bikini malfunction...

The Camper Van Adventures..Chapter 4.. 'The cougars rob the casino..'We got to Brisbane penniless- our money hadn't cleared onto our travel Mastercards, the don't accept English debit cards over here, Lodge's credit card is maxed out and I don't know the pin to my credit card.. So with just enough money to pay for the campsite, we stayed in on Tuesday night hopeful that our funds would be available the next morning.It turned out not. All in all it was a disastrou...

The Camper Van Adventures.. Chapter 3.. 'Please keep your arms, legs and plugs inside the van at all times...' We were due a disaster- one week since 'the day we drove miles and got no where' and things had been going too smoothly. Lodge decided to liven things up a bit and somehow managed to close the side door with one endof our power lead hanging out...About 3km down the road- we were on our way to Byron Bay at this point- we finally got the hint from people a...