Cairns and Surrounds
Cairns and Surrounds Cairns Lagoon Stayed in the middle of Cairns for one night and there was a completely different vibe. Heaps of young foreign travellers camping in tents all using Cairns as their hopping off point for reef tours and other activities. Went to the Cairns Lagoon on the front it was lovely. Nice […]
Newell Beach
Newell Beach Only 4kms outside Mossman a tiny little village on the coast with a tiny caravan site. Love this caravan site it’s so small and just across the road from the beach and it has a pool. The beach is about 3km long and it’s a lovely morning walk. My days when Simon is […]
Port Douglas
Port Douglas Port Douglas is beautiful especially the famous Four Mile Beach. We were just there for a day trip will be staying there in a few weeks time. Previous Next
The Australian Chocolate Farm – Shannonvale
The Australian Chocolate Farm – Shannonvale If you want to visit a chocolate farm then this is the one. Multiple awards for the chocolate including a silver in a world competition. It is run by a lovely couple Jenny and Darryl. Jenny does the chocolate tours and Darryl is the chocolate maker. They have a […]
Mossman
Mossman Ulysses Butterfly We stayed at two places in Mossman the first was the Mossman Pool and Caravan Park, your nightly rate incudes full use of the 50m swimming pool so we had to make use of it. A fantastic pool so both Simon and I decided to do a daily swim. Lots of scrub […]
Cooktown
Cooktown Staying at a friends’ brothers property just outside Cooktown. Cooktown is a beautiful town it has a great botanical garden that was established in 1887! Captain Cook landed here in 1770 when their ship was damaged on the Great Barrier Reef and they managed to sail it into Cooktown and beached it on the […]
Isabella Falls
Isabella Falls Stopped the night at Archer River as Simon wanted to watch the AFL Grand Final. They had a big screen set up and a few people there for the match. We did 5 hours driving to get there and another 5 to get to Isabella Falls. The road to Jardine was great as […]
Alau Beach
Alau Beach A great beach and campsite with a small pool. Hardly anyone there the place was empty only about five caravans I think everyone heading home as the school holidays are over. At least Alau had drinking water so we were able to fill up the tanks before we head south. The town itself […]
Punsand Bay
Punsand Bay Driving to Punsand Bay you come to a water crossing which is quite small so in we went and then the ute plunged into a deep hole frightened the life out of us but managed to keep going and get out. It was very deep well up the doors of the ute. Spoke […]
Somerset
Somerset This is a small bush camp around 10km to the east coast from the Tip. On our first day we saw a 3m crocodile swimming across the bay and about an hour later he came swimming back with a turtle in its mouth, the poor turtle was flapping its fins the whole way and […]