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

The beauty of camping at Lake Mackenzie meant that until the first group of tours turned up at about 8.30am, we had the entire tranquil place to ourselves. It was well worth the walk and an early start. It had been a windy, wet and pretty cold night, spent in woefully inadequate hired sleeping bags.… Read more

Early start today, to get down to the ferry from River Heads across to Fraser Island. Although you can easily book the ferry and campsites yourself, we needed to hire some camp kit, so got a tour operator to do the logistics for us and lend us the required camp kit. By 10am, we’d been… Read more

Just us and the Pelicans down by the Noosa River this morning. The tide was in, the water calm, the wind light. What a way to wake up. It even felt warmer than last time, so I was able to stay in a bit longer, swimming against the current like a treadmill. It was time… Read more