Driving away from Tamworth the scenery was beautiful. Rolling hills and greenery which is typical of northern New South Wales. I think that part of NSW might be my favourite. We decided to make one more stop overnight on our way home despite the fact that we could have driven straight home from there. We […]
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Road Trip 2016/17- Part 5 Day 32-33
After a lovely night at Mount Morgan we packed up and set off for our next stop, Goondiwindi. We were hoping to visit a couple there of which the husband is also a Congregational church minister. The only reason we went inland was to visit them. It was hot, inland Queensland is a hot place […]
Road Trip 2016/17- Part 5 Day 30-31
After a lovely time in Lucinda we headed south towards our next stop Proserpine. This was the area we went through on the way up that was flooded. On our way there we stopped for lunch at a place called Alligator Creek. It was a dry area which showed us how much the landscape was […]
Road Trip 2016/17- Part 5 Day 29
Our destination for the first night on the way back down to Sydney was the small town of Lucinda. There are personal reasons for this choice and those who know us will get why. The scenery on the way there was absolutely breathtaking. After passing through the towns of Tully and Cardwell we headed along […]
Road Trip 2016/17- Part 4 Days 27-29 – Cairns
After the trip to the Daintree the last few days were lower key. We needed time to repack the van and spend time with family. One of the things we repeated from a few years ago was ice bowling. It was a lot of fun last time so I filled some balloons with coloured water […]
Road Trip 2016/17- Part 4 Days 26 – Cairns
The last four days in Cairns were great, the highlight being our trip to the Daintree. The last time we went was 7 years ago so it was about time we got there again. We followed the exact same route as we did last time and revisited many of the places we went to before. […]
Road Trip 2016/17- Part 4 Days 20-25 – Cairns
On day 20 of our trip my parents took the four grandchildren to a local resort for two nights as a special treat. We set them up in our camper van and tent and left them to it. I must say, they were brave taking on the four kids on their own when they were […]
Road Trip 2016/17- Part 4 Days 12-19 – Cairns
In looking at all that we did in the 15 (not 10 as previously mentioned) days we spent in Cairns I decided I needed to split this into two posts. We managed to cram an awful lot into our time there as well as spending a lot of down time with the family. The most […]
Road Trip 2016/17- Part 3 Day 11 – St Lawrence-Cairns
Its been a week or so since I added to the record of our road trip and with good reason. Last week there were dramas with our cat followed by colds all around! I’m still sick but wanted to at least continue with the last day of part three of our trip. After this we […]
Road Trip 2016/17- Part 3 Days 9-10 – Brisbane- St Lawrence
We set off towards Cairns on the morning of January 4th with two extras in tow, my nephews. It was a great opportunity to spend some time with them as we don’t see them very often. Cairns is over 1600 kms from Brisbane and we had initially planned to do it over four days. Our […]