We paused our road trip to do something I have wanted to do for a long time: go sailing around the Whitsundays. I had booked a 3 night cruise on the Whitsunday Blue, a catamaran that sleeps 8 people plus two crew. After much anticipation, the afternoon finally came and our captain, Kevin, and host… Read More Sailing Adventure: A 3-Night Whitsundays Cruise
A long but surprisingly interesting driving day today (500km) passing through two industry areas – mining and sugar cane. We turned off the Great Inland Way at Capella and followed a road that had many names east to Middlemount. The road is basically an access road to coal mines. We heard quite a lot of… Read More Day 10 Emerald to Airlie Beach
We said goodbye to Carnarvon Gorge. We decided as we left that we had spent the perfect amount of time there for us. It was a travel day today. We are overnighting in Emerald on the way to Airlie Beach. It was a pretty short day of driving 244km. We passed a town on the… Read More Day 9 Carnarvon Gorge to Emerald
I had heard you can climb to the top of the gorge for sunrise. Sunrise is about 5.30 but I thought the sky would start turning colour about 5. I did multiple calculations to work out what time we had to get up. Walking with torches I thought it would take way longer to get… Read More Day 8 Carnarvon Gorge Sunrise Walk
Carnarvon Gorge is a popular National Park in Qld but I don’t think many Victorians know about it. I’ve been really looking forward to exploring it and it did not disappoint – stunning. Today was our big hiking day. We headed off with anticipation to the National Park, about a 7 minute drive from where… Read More Day 7 Hiking Carnarvon Gorge Main Trail
Being in central Queensland, it seems fitting that today was all about cows. The Roma Saleyards are the biggest cattle saleyards in the southern hemisphere. Tuesday is the main sale day, and they sell around 6000 heads of cattle a day. On a really busy day they auction 12,000. There is a free tour every… Read More Day 6 Roma to Carnarvon Gorge
I was woken this morning to “There’s something wrong with this van and it’s my wife!!!” It was cold last night. So cold Chris kept coming over my side and trying to steal my heat. I had turned the heater on to a low setting before I went to bed. Chris got up in the… Read More Day 5 Lightening Ridge to Roma
I set my alarm very early to see the sunrise. We lay in bed and watched the the giraffes silhouetted as the sky slowly changed colour. About 5.30 I rugged up, grabbed an instant coffee and went to sit outside. It was fun watching the animals around each other. The rhinos were not surprisingly the… Read More Day 4 Dubbo Zoo to Lightening Ridge
We did Parkrun this morning. I want to try and do one every Saturday if we can. My planter fasciitis has been coming back so I’ve had 8 days off exercise resting, stretching and icing. I warned Chris my running might not be great. But I didn’t really mean it – I was hoping to… Read More Day 3 Parkes to Dubbo Zoo
Today felt like a real road trip. Usually we are driving to a destination to stay there for a weekend or a week and then go back. It’s strange just… driving… lots of driving. Chris even let me stop at places on the way seeings it is a road trip. We had a concerning conversation… Read More Day 2 Newell Highway Finley to Parkes
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