To break up the journey to Cairns, we’d decided to pull off the highway and call in at ‘Northern Queenslands premier crag’ which is just outside the town of Townsville. To be honest, the topo didn’t make it look that good, but we were drawn in by the chance of climbing one of the best Read more

What a fantastic day! A highlight of the Australia trip for us both. After roughing it camping and sea kayaking for the last few days, today was blissful mixture of luxury and tranquility. ‘Sailing in the Whitsundays’, we’d been told by almost everyone, was ‘the thing to do’ – we just wanted to make sure Read more

There was a period of time during the night when the sky was filled with stars and our hope of a blue sky morning rose, but at dawn, this was the view from my sleeping bag. But we did still have the whole of Whitehaven Beach to ourselves!  So we got up and took a Read more

You win some, you loose some. It doesn’t matter where in the world you are, sometimes the weather just doesn’t play ball… Whitehaven Beach is billed as the ‘jewel in the crown’ of the Whitsunday Islands. 7km of white sand and blue sky. We’d made plans to get a water taxi with some camp kit Read more

Thanks to yesterday’s monster drive and  another early start, by mid morning, we’d arrived at the Whitsunday’s Shute Harbour, hired a double sea kayak and about twenty minutes later were setting off around the outlying Whitsunday Islands on a kayaking mini-adventure. A short distance from Shute Harbour are three small islands that we journeyed around Read more

Drove 750km today! No directions or maps needed as we were on the same road all day! Heading north. Rolled out of bed, walked to the front of the van grabbing a drink on the way and by 7.10am we were on the move! We took shifts with the driving, swapping every few hours to Read more