Townsville -> Mission Beach -> Cairns -> Cooktown -> Port Douglas -> Daintree -> Townsville -> Magnetic Island April 7th 2021 After my time in Mt Isa, I met Will at the Townsville airport. We picked up our hire car and started the trip North to take us as far as Cooktown. On the way, we passed farms of sugar canes lining the roads and a long thick snake, dead and sprawled across the road. We stopped in Tully, famous for its banana farms and labour from backpackers eagerly working off their farm hours on their working hol ... read more
Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Townsville Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more
I left England in January 2015. With good intentions to have returned after a year, however with countless new experiences and memories later, I am still travelling the world in 2018! Please check out my travel blogs from across Asia, Australia and the Pacific Islands. ... full info