Our plans from here to home were big days in the car with an overnight stops on the side of the rd when needed and a couple of nights in our chosen spots. We were headed a road side spot just past Charters Towers, but i had pulled a muscle in my shoulder/upper back area that morning and by the time we hit Charters i could hardly move and wouldn't be much help in setting up the camper so we decided to get a cabin for the night. The next day was going to be another...

We are still in Cairns and on fri we had one of our best days out yet. We started off by being picked up by a bus out the front of the park and were basically given a tour of Cairns as we were the first pickup of the day. The Kuranda train line was originally put in for the gold rush but now is a tourist train from Cairns to Kuranda. The train went through lots of tunnels and over heaps of bridges inc one bridge with the tightest curve for a train. We also stoppe...

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...