We arrived in Cairns with our first stop being at a chemist to buy some strapping tape for me as I twisted my ankle on a path when in Kuranda - not happy Jan, our second stop was to our friends home in Moorooboola where we will call home for the next 5 nights and the much impending wedding of their daughter Tanya and husband to be Peter. We have known Tracy and Graeme since our Kalgoorlie days some 26 years ago. After some skillful reversing by Mal we secure the...

We headed off to Mareeba with plans to visit the Air Museum and the famous Coffeeworks as this is the home of the coffee beans. Unfortunately when we got to the museum is not only closed but shutdown, but we still managed to have a look around the old planes out the front that were literally decaying without any care, such a shame but the old TAA stairs was a novelty having not seen that signage for a while. Our next stop would be the Coffeeand Chocolate works ...

Friday 5th September we arrive in Malanda our first Tablelands town, and it is Mal's Birthday on the 7th so I am keen to find a nice restuarant and somewhere nice for us to have an overnight stay and I find a nice place in Yungaburra a short distance away and very central to the whole tablelands area. Malanda is a lovely little town and very RV friendly. the caravan park is huge and sits right on the Malanda Falls, which are not high at all. We take a day trip ...

Well it was a tough call leaving Cowley Beach but there was still much to see, besides if we had of won lotto Mal would still be there in the house for sale with the ocean view lol. So Paronella Park in Mena Creek was our next stop, great because when you buy your entry ticket you get 1 night free accommodation in the caravan park which is in the park and the Mena Creek Pub is across the suspension bridge which is just outside the park. After settling in we set ...

On the day we arrived at Cowley Beach 3/8 the weather was overcast, cold, windy and rain was on its way again, we booked in for 3 nights, planning to move into Mission Beach. The next morning we woke to a beautiful cool morning and decided that we would have a look at the other seaside options before making a move. We spent that day looking at Mission Beach, being South Mission, Wongaling and North Mission and decided that making the move was of no advantage as...