DAY 353 It was a beautiful cool start to the day, but that would soon change once the sun came up. I could hear Andy start the truck up and move it away from the trailer, I was not concerned I knew he wasn’t running away, I figured that there must be a problem that he was trying to sort out as he left the engine running, unperturbed I went back to sleep, it was too early for me. I was up early this morning, for no reason except that i was just another gorgeous spring day. Except that I found [View Full Entry]

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DAY 352 We planned to go and do the 3k walk this morning, provided we started it early, it is still only spring but the day temperatures are getting very warm. I had suggested to Caroline that we needed to be away for no later than 7.30am if we wanted to get a good start on the day. The mornings here at Paluma National Park, admittedly as they are at most places are absolutely beautiful, with the dawn chorus, and if you are lucky enough you may get some wildlife just happening by. The plan was to go and have [View Full Entry]

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DAY 351 Well, today is a good day, we have been hoping for a day like this since we came into FNQ (Far North Queensland) or maybe just being in the Wet Tropics to see a particular animal in the wilderness that is endangered. Put it this way we have seen enough warning signs, but we have only seen the animal in question in a zoo, but that does not count, it has to be in the wilderness for it to be a proper sighting. The more we stay at these Big 4’s the less I like them, the one in [View Full Entry]

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DAY 350 It rained heavily in the night I mentioned to Andy that the large flap at the end of the tent needed putting down to stop everything getting wet, he muttered words like “It’s ok, I put the spirit level on it!” Ok, I thought I am not going to get much out of Andy, not that I was asking him to do it, but it is easier for him as I cannot reach the strap that holds the flap up, so I jumped out of bed, grabbed our two step stool that we use to get into bed, ran [View Full Entry]

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DAY 349 It had rained through the night at Babinda so waking up to a soggy morning was not our most favourite, still we cannot complain too much, being professional “Sun Chasers” we have not come across too much of this wet stuff for a long while. I got out of the Wendy House, and put the kettle on, Caroline soon appeared and we sat, just enjoying the morning and the sun that was now shining. Hats off to Babinda, we think it is fabulous, what an excellent, little town and what a great little campsite there is at the Boulders. [View Full Entry]

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DAY 348 We’ve got half a million! Dollars! Yea we wish! But no, with this blog entry today we have achieved half a million words typed on the blog. Wow we think that is amazing! Today we have just hit just over 500,000 words, so we are quite pleased with my achievement. Today is no ordinary day, today is my birthday, and Caroline said something puzzling yesterday, she said “sorry your birthday is not going to be very exciting”. Mmmm, lets just consider that, NOT VERY EXCITING, well we have been lucky enough to be able to have a year off [View Full Entry]

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DAY 347 Again I was up at silly o’clock, pottering about and Julie was up and walked past me with the kettle, which she handed to me and said she was going to meditate and then go for a walk up the hill, though all I wanted was a cup of my favourite brew. I padded around the place as quite as a church mouse as I didn’t want to disturb Julie and then went outside and sat on the veranda in the morning sun. Caroline “Surfaced” at about 07.30 and we all sat around have tea and toast and talking [View Full Entry]

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Apologies for this, bit one of our diligent readers (The Wallaby wanderes-Smart Arses) pointed out that our last blog entry “The last frontier” had some of the text missing. Well it wasn’t for you to guess the ending but a mistake on my behalf (Andy’s half) I have corrected this know so you can read the ending if you want to. Sorry about this. Andy [View Full Entry]

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DAY 346 Today’s the day that we leave Cairns and continue our journey South, Andy as usual was up early this morning, I was up just after 7.00 but Andy was already outside packing the trailer, so I set about getting sorted out inside, little did we know that we would change our plans. It again is quite warm this morning and very humid, but it is overcast, I strip the sheets and pillowcases etc from the bed in order to wash them and hang them to dry ready for Julies return. Andy packed the trailer, our sleeping bags and [View Full Entry]

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DAY 345 I was up a little earlier this morning, just after 7.00, I must have had a good nights sleep, but still well after Andy who seems to be getting up earlier than ever. I find Andy outside beetling around with the truck and trailer getting bits and pieces ready for the off tomorrow. I find out, as crazy as he is getting up so early, that he sneaked off to the car wash place just down the road to use the vacuum cleaner to finish cleaning the inside of the truck. We have breakfast, and a little bit [View Full Entry]

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