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
Cooktown is as far north as we made it on Cape York. This is about as far as the bitumen goes. I was expecting to see a town that catered to 4WD adventures and such, but instead it felt very much like many other small Aussie towns. Lots of historic sites in Cooktown. This is a fountain in memoriam of Mary Watson, the very definition of irony since she died from lack of water after an Aboriginal attack. This one … Read More
Not too far from Cooktown are a couple of mountains covered in heaps and heaps of black rocks. It looks like at some point in the past it must have rained black rocks all over these mountains. It’s named…are you ready? Black Mountain National Park. Because, you know, the mountains look black. You can’t really hike the mountain, you can only observe it from the lookout. Underneath all those rocks there can be gaps and people have been injured in … Read More