Campervan Trip 3 'Hervey Bay' (Sunshine Coast) On our way but Tom really needed a haircut (either that or start sporting a ponytail) so visited the local barbers and a guy from Dublin cut his hair, returned with a distinct tan tide mark! Easy journey to Hervey (pronounced Harvey) bay which is known as the gateway to Fraser Island so stopped at the Info centre on route to book our trip to the Island for the following day with pickup at 7.25am! Noticed along the...

Campervan Trip 2 'Noosa' (Sunshine Coast) Brilliant wakeup call with another early morning swim in the ocean and still managed to be on our way to Noosa by 8am. The first leg of the journey took us along the motorway (M1) and back past Brisbane with Sue sitting at her 'desk' in the back, tidying up and adding to my blog posts (and yes Dad I am marking any mistakes in red ha ha)! Came off the main drag to get back to the coast road at Mooloolaba (great names eh)...

Campervan Trip 1 'Byron Bay' (Gold Coast) 6.30am start to pick up the motor home but just as well as we didn't get on the road until a few hours later and somehow managed to find ourselves back in the city during rush hour - Sue willing to take blame as navigator! Although our road trip to Cairns takes us north along the Sunshine coast we had decided to first travel south along the gold coast as we were keen to visit Byron Bay. Made a stop at Surfers Paradise ...

Brisbane Arrived in Brisbane having gained an hour and it being a subtropical region we had 31 degrees with glorious sunshine. Unfortunately the hotel room wasn't as glorious but with Tom's dogged persistence we ended up with an amazing 2 bedroomed apartment looking over the river! The hotel is situated on the city rivers south bank which is home to a number of lively bars and Australia's only man made city beach! There are some fabulous walk ways and cycle tra...

Melbourne 2 Little rest as up at 6am to catch the 'Great Ocean Road 'tour, a trip which would take us some 560k (only here once!).The Great Ocean Road was initially constructed to provide work for servicemen returning from the Great War, it stretches for 270km and is just as magnificent as everyone told us - we were so glad we followed advice. The driver was a bit of a boy and kept us well entertained! Stopped off at 'Bells Bay'; said to be the world's 2nd be...