After we had left the airport Wayne and I were ready to leave the Melbourne area, so we got on to the Hume Highway and headed North towards the New South Wales border. We drove for about an hour that night and then found a rest stop to camp at. The next morning we were off relatively early we were heading to Canberra about 700km from where we were, so we had a long day driving ahead of us. The highway was having a massive upgrade so there were roadwork's all the ...

After BBQ egg sandwiches we set off on Monday from Airlie Beach towards Mackay, with a detour via cedar creek falls which we were told we quite pretty, we got there and there was no falls and the water at the bottom of where they had been looked gross, we names them no water falls. We got to Mackay about and hour later and stopped for a coffee, before going to the airport. The flight back to Melbourne was about 3 hours it was all dead easy and we got our bags str...

After leaving Rockhampton, Dad drove again further North, the scenery changed quickly and the area became barren and dry looking, there was not a lot on the way although we managed to stop at one town Sarina for a sandwich and to stretch our legs. We then came to Mackay another big town, but we carried on to Prosperine, here we turned off of the main highway towards the coast and the town of Airlie Beach the main gateway to the Whitsunday Islands. We parked up ...

We left Woody Point early, it had been very strange to go there but well worth it, it is just a shame that we did not know where my Family had lived it would have been good to look the place up. North on the Bruce Highway towards Australia Zoo, we went, home of the Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin. It took us about 45 minutes to get there and we didn't arrive long after the gates had opened. The first sight that greets you is a bronze statue of the Irwin Family acco...

With sadness we left the Gold Coast early on Saturday morning, we all agreed that we could have spent another week there relaxing and holidaying. We did not even manage to get to a theme park while we were there, such as Movie World, Sea World, Wet N Wild, some of the areas main attractions. We headed North through Brisbane to the Redcliffe Peninsular about 20km North East of the City looking out over Moreton Bay to Moreton Island. This area is probably not th...