As you probably noticed from the photo's we made it to the tip of mainland Australia. It was only a 40ish k's drive from loyalty beach campground to the top and we stopped at the croc tent for some souveniers. on the way back from the tip we stopped at punsand bay for some lunch and then headed back to camp. that night i packed up the awning for the next day's early start and this turned out to be a bad move as it rained while we were trying to eat our tea, as if...

We did it we made it to the tip of mainland Australia. It was only a 40ish k's drive from Loyalty beach campground to the top and we stopped at the croc tent for some souveniers. On the way back from the tip we stopped at Punsand bay for some lunch and then headed back to camp. That night i packed up the awning for the next day's early start and this turned out to be a bad move as it rained while we were trying to eat our tea, as if id ran over a black cat it s...

Well so much has happened since the last blog its hard to remember but ill see how i go. Before leaving Nan and Pop at Cooktown, Pop and i had 1 last fish off the jetty, we didnt want to buy bait and were using what we already had so it was plastic lures. After a while of not catching anything, a young Aboriginal boy wandered up with his fishing gear and asked how we were going. We told him no good and he asked what bait we were using, he said our plastics were n...

From Atherton we headed straight to Mareeba the coffee capital of Australia. We did a tour of a coffee and chocolate place where we had the chance to sample 30 odd different coffee's and a few different chocolates. We then drove to the Palmer river roadhouse and pub for probably the best steak sandwich i have had. As soon as we arrived at Cooktown and setup the camper we started working on who was taking us fishing :-). As it turned out the first one we rang had ...

While we were at Atherton we visited the gem shop, where we went down a fake underground cave and saw all the gems and rock from around the world inc the huge one in the pic, the princess of Uraguay. The girls got to crack open their very own geode (a rock with gems inside) and they felt pretty special being the first person ever to see whats inside. After the gem shop we went to a little town called Youngaburra where we went to see if we could see some Platypus,...