With a string of beaches, loads of street art and sculptures, walking trails and the amazing Yeppoon Lagoon, this is one holiday destination to add to your Queensland road trip. Not to mention you can take a day trip on a fast catamaran to Great Keppel Island at the southern end of the Great Barrier… Read More It’s A Big Yep to Yeppoon
If you live in Australia and are a fan of travel shows, and magazines or you’ve travelled through Queensland, you’ve probably heard of, and seen photos of Paronella Park. Even if you’ve never been there, I’ll bet some parts of the story have crept into your consciousness, just like the moss has crept over the… Read More 7 Things you probably didn’t know about Paronella Park (but should).
If ever there is a town in Australia to sum up the epitome of resilience, perhaps it’s Innisfail on the Cassowary Coast of north Queensland. The town has been a victim of a number of severe cyclones over the years which caused major damage in 1906, 1918, 1986, and 2006.
If I could give any advice for people planning a trip to Cairns in Far North Queensland, it would be visit during Cairns Festival time. Along with everything else that brings visitors to the region, the city is abuzz with music, dance and light shows, as well as interactive performances designed for adults and children… Read More Vibrant Cairns – it’s Festival Time!
Having completed our ‘trip to the tip’, it’s time to look at the statistics and give people an idea of how far we travelled, how much we spent and how many days we took. The distance from Lakeland on Cape York where we left our caravan, to the very tip of Queensland at Pajinka was… Read More Driving to the Tip of Cape York – The Stats
As we leave Alau Beach and begin the drive back from the tip we notice a whole lot more of lost bits and pieces that have fallen off peoples cars, caravans or campers. We see more tiedowns, a mop, a tyre, more solar panels and assorted dust covered metal fragments.
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