Byron Bay - 15th October ByronCar Kilometres: 182,624 Distance Travelled: 344km Total Distance Travelled: 14,373km We drive down to Byron Bay via the Gold Coast and Surfer's Paradise - it's like a Spanish resort town; full of skyscrapers, traffic, surfer dudes and bikini girls... we're glad that we're just passing through, although one of the reasons that it's so busy is because the Indy Car race is in town next week, and they're busy setting up for it - Da...

Brisbane - 8th October BrisbaneCar Kilometres: 182,280 Distance Travelled: 232km Total Distance Travelled: 14,029km From Noosa, it's only a 130km drive down to Brisbane, although we can't resist stopping on the way at another of Australia's 'big' attractions - this time, the Big Pineapple at the Golden Circle plantation.It's huge and made from fibreglass, filled with a slightly random inside that you follow as you walk up the steps to the pineapple-top look...

Noosa - 6th October NoosaCar Kilometres: 182,048 Distance Travelled: 365km Total Distance Travelled: 13,797km We manage to contain our excitement at our impending visit to Australia Zoo just enough to stop in at Maryborough on the way to Noosa. Maryborough was the birth place of PL Travers, the author of Mary Poppins, and as well as having plenty of Poppins-themed attractions (which we decide to skip), it is also home to the National Trust classified Bre...

Hervey Bay - 3rd October 2008 Hervey Bay Car Kilometres: 181,683 Distance Travelled: 273km Total Distance Travelled: 13,432km Hervey Bay was our next real stop, but as the East Coast has more than one town every 650kms we decided to pause a couple of times on the way down in order to break up the journey. Our first stop was a Town called Yepoon. Unfortunately the only thing we really saw of Yepoon was the campsite. We did manage to go as far as a drive int...

Cape Hillsborough - 29th September Cape HillsboroughCar Kilometres: 180,673 Distance Travelled: 1201km Total Distance Travelled: 12,422km We leave Mission Beach behind, and plan to stop over for one night near Townsville on the way to Mackay.We drive south for about 250kms, with just two stops on the way.The first is at Tully, a town which proudly claims to be the wettest in Australia, with a 7.9 metre fibreglass and concrete giant gumboot at the entrance t...