Kingscliff to Emerald Beach We awoke again to another wet day. Breakfast was soon finished and we packed up quickly in between showers. As we headed off we had one more look at the Tweed River before making our way onto the M1 south. Even though the terrain was mostly flat with a few hills …
Mel woke us up quite early the next morning which didn't turn out to be a bad thing as we saw the sun finish rising and took a quick walk along the beach before breakfast. The rest of the morning was a washing day as at last it was sunny enough to dry it. That …
Ingham to Rollingstone The drive down to Rollingstone from Ingham wasn't very far so we ate a leisurely breakfast before packing up and heading off down the Bruce Highway. Of course there were the now familiar stops for roadworks but we were quickly checking in and setting up at Rollingstone before lunch and the ever …
Kinka Beach to Sarina With just over 330 kms to travel we set off reasonably early from Kinka Beach. Coming back out onto the Bruce Highway just north of Rockhampton we made our way through the countryside passing a series of small towns dotted along the map, Yaamba, Canoona and Kunwarara before reaching Marlborough about …
From Charters Towers we made our way out to Townsville and headed north to our next destination, Mission Beach. The road in has several roadsigns unique to this area warning drivers to be wary of cassowaries. Formerly a very quiet village, Mission Beach is now a spread out centre over about 15 kilometres of beautiful …
Now that we are retired and no longer teach we can take our caravan away before or after school holidays. Cape Paterson is on the southern coast of west Gippsland and we planned to meet up with friends at the caravan park there. Our trip down on the Friday, after lunching at home, took us …
You may think after the previous few days driving only 190 kms or so wasn't helping us cross the Nullabor very quickly but as you will read at the end of this post there was a good reason for not going so far.We hit the road just before 9:00 heading further east from Madura. Not …
Continue reading Crossing the Nullabor, Madura to Border Village
From Hamelin Pool we continued our drive south. After a couple of hours we turned towards the coast from the main highway but it was almost another hour before we arrived at the Murchison Caravan Park, our stopping point for the next few nights. After setting up the caravan we grabbed a few supplies from …
Now that we had communed with dolphins at Monkey Mia there remained some other important/interesting locations to visit as we made our way back out of the Shark Bay World Heritage Area. The first was about fifteen minutes south from Denham. Named Eagle Bluff Lookout, it offered us views over a part of Shark Bay. …
Continue reading Our final day exploring Shark Bay World Heritage Area
The helpful staff at Denham Tourist Information Centre had detailed to us what was required with going to see the dolphins at Monkey Mia when we had popped in there the previous day. So we took a quick breakfast and drove off in the early dawn towards Monkey Mia. After paying our park entry fee …
Continue reading Shark Bay World Heritage Area, Day 2 – Monkey Mia
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