Wags

Just when you thought you'd stopped getting bloody travelblog links in your email........here we are again. Apparently there are some out there who noticed that we had not finished our blogs and wanted to see more (obviously family) . After being back in Melbourne and back at work (what 6 month holiday?????), I'm struggling to get touch with my inner traveller, but here goes.... You may remember that our last blog finished deliciously at the Bundaberg Rum Distillary. After guzzling a rum or two before 10.00am (Wes plans on doing that every day when he retires), we headed off down the coast to Coolum Beach and set up camp in the caravan park literally on the beach, where we stayed for 5 nights. One day was a drive to Noosa for a beautiful lunch overlooking the ... read more

We arrived back into Port Douglas from the Cape trip and our first 2 days were taken up with cleaning the car, washing and re-stocking the cupboards. It took every bit of the two days to get the dust and mud from the outside and the inside of the car - and we are still finding spots we missed. Our third day we went on a Barrier Reef cruise on the Calypso. We had been out snorkelling to the reef on our last visit to Port Douglas 8 years ago, but it’s so beautiful that we went again. We saw whales on the way out to the outer reef and dolphins on the way back. It was a perfect day weather wise - the crew said it was the best day they had had all season ... read more

We left Port Douglas full of high expectations and bravado and we have not been disappointed - although the bravado did disappear somewhat at our first challenging creek crossing on the OTL (local buzz term for the Overland Telegraph Line). Before reaching the start of the OTL, we bush camped at a few spots. The first was just inside the Lakefield National Park at Six Mile Lagoon - a very pretty lily covered lagoon with abundant bird life including the very shy, Jabirus. We had the whole place to ourselves. It was here that a big dose of bush camping reality set in with a thud - no toilets (apart from our shovel and a toilet roll), no showers & no running water and with temperatures of 28-29 degrees & 90 % humidity this was not ... read more

You’ll remember that our last blog finished in Lightning Ridge. Well with heavy hearts we left Lightning Ridge and our new friends and headed out along the ‘track’…...and cutting to the present - we are now in QUEENSLAND - you know beautiful one day, perfect the next - and with sunny 32 degree days it didn’t take long for the memories of Lightning Ridge to fade along with our porcelain white Melbourne skin. To our Melbournite friends and family freezing their way through winter - hee hee. Ok enough rubbing it in, backing up slightly to fill you in on the gaps, our first stop after Lightning Ridge was Bourke which required a back track through Walgett. Walgett is a bit of a sad town now - I was here years ago, but since then the ... read more

The fact that I am writing this blog means that the ‘block of flats’ was towed safely through Sydney traffic thanks to Wes’s expert driving, to settle for a week in Narrabeen on the northern beaches of Sydney. Yes, I hear you all moan - another beach. The theme for the last few weeks has been beaches because after Sydney we head inland and don’t hit the ocean again until we get to the Gulf which is approx. 3500kms. We visited the usual tourist sights whilst in Sydney, and so for my fellow Aussies reading the blog, please bear with us while we cover off these ubiquitous Sydney tourist sites for our overseas rellies and friends. Our first outing was a drive to Bobbin Head and Wisemans Ferry - some of my childhood haunts. A great ... read more