Blogs from Daintree, Queensland, Australia, Oceania - page 7

Well maybe if you're a Queenslander, but not if you're British and have come on holiday to find the Sun!!! We have not had a very successful 72 hours due the appalling weather. On Tuesday we started out in our little campervan full of hope and expectation even though it was looking a bit cloudy. We drove north up the coast towards Port Douglas, stopping at Yorkeys Knob (yes, we took the photos yorkie!) but the views were not great due to the overcast skies and very choppy water. We eventually arrived in Port Douglas after a lovely drive (clinging to the cliff edge in some places - god help me in New Zealand!) to be met with rain. We overnighted on a nice site outside of Port Douglas where the campervan was still a novelty ... read more

We spent the day today driving up the east coast from Cairns along the coastal road, where we stopped to check out all the beaches the Ciarns is famous for including the stunning Trinity beach where some of the beach villas and their settings where stunning. The coastal road meandered along the coast, cutting in and winding up through world heritage listed tropical rainforest and made for an awesome drive with some stunning scenery. We stopped in Port Douglas in the early afternoon where we had some lunch before returniing back to base in Cairns. ... read more

We know it has been a long time since we have written one of these, but we have good reason - we were in the wilds of Australia. Well not really, but we were busy communing with the animals at the Daintree Mangroves Wildlife Sanctuary. We have had quite an exciting time in the last two weeks WWOOFing (Willing Workers on Organic Farms) with a bunch of animals (and some wildlife too). The Sanctuary was built by the owners Gil and Donna Talbot over the last four years and you wouldn't believe the amount of work they have put into it. They have something like 500 animals (including many types of birds, reptiles, mammals and marsupials). All of the animals are native to Australia which was great for us because we were able to see so ... read more