Ah it’s so good to be in cooler weather but unfortunately that also means stormy humid days with lots of rain and wind as we spend three weeks exploring Tropical North Queensland. We leave the idyllic Magnetic Island and travel up the east coast to Balgal Beach, Taylor’s Beach, Mission Beach, Bramston Beach, Palm Cove, Port Douglas, Cooktown, Atherton tablelands, Georgetown, Karumba, Normantown and down to Bowen. The vegetation is […]
We make a dash for the coast on week 21 of our lap around Australia hoping to find a cool breeze after nearly a month in the scorching Northern Territory. We take the only road east, the narrow, bumpy, road train strewn Flinders Highway and discover the focus here is on the dinosaurs that used to roam the inland sea 100 million years ago. Townsville greets us with a gutsy […]
It’s hard to believe it is possible, but it got even hotter on our last week in the Northern Territory as we returned to Darwin, ventured east to Mary River then south back through Katherine, Mataranka and Tennant Creek. This was our last week in the Territory which was proving to be a tad too hot for us. We re-planned a way to get back to our beloved coast, ocean […]