Yearly Archives: 2015

Our first view of Cairns was from a lookout on the Kennedy Highway.  It may have been love at first sight.  We felt like we were back in Tassie on this road!  Mountainous and curvy.  Towing a caravan is never more fun. 🙂 We stayed at the best caravan park near the Crystal Cascades.  Cairns is in tropical far north Queensland.  These stats are amazing! We walked up to see the Crystal Cascades waterfall first. We took in the view … Read More

After Cooktown our plan is to make our way down the coast as far as Mackay and then head inland.  After we saw the rock art in Laura we went to Mareeba for a few days.  We had spent a night here on our way north.  The town has a rodeo grounds you can camp at and these usually charge less than caravan parks which is good for our family.  The amenities are never as nice at show grounds but … Read More

Before we started on our trip around Australia I heard about the Mon Repos Turtle Centre, where you can go to watch sea turtles laying eggs on the beach.  That sounds absolutely magical!  It made my list of things we had to see on our trip.  I was so glad we ended up nearby and could visit.  Mon Repos is near Bundaberg, and we stayed in nearby Elliott Heads.  Unfortunately for us, it was the wrong time of year to … Read More

Here’s a catch-up post.  I’m going to call them flashbacks.  From earlier in our trip, so the post is out of order.  Hopefully I’ll be able to sneak these in from time to time and catch up on blogging about some of the places we’ve been.  I’m finding it near impossible to keep up, every time I feel close to caught up it all gets away from me again! On our way up the east coast we spent a couple … Read More

There are some great signs along the road in Queensland.  Not sure where they think we’re headed! There can definitely be a lot of time between towns. I guess I should get a picture of a kangaroo roadsign, not sure I’ve got one of those yet.  They are all over the place.  I think we’ve seen more signs for kangaroos than actual kangaroos. When we left Mulambin we drove for several days in a row to get all the way … Read More

Does this count as a roadsign for my collection?  Not exactly what you think of as Australian animals, but we see a lot of these signs!  So far up this way we’ve seen wandering cattle, but no sheep yet. After Cooktown we spent a night in nearby Lakeland so that we could make a quick visit over to Laura to see the Aboriginal rock art at Split Rock.  (I never know whether I’m supposed to capitalise Aboriginal, I see it … Read More