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 […]
The Tip – Cape York
The Tip – Cape York Went to ‘The Tip’ today and no I am not talking about a rubbish tip, the most northern point of Cape York and Australia is referred to as ‘The Tip’. Stopped off at the ‘Croc Tent’ which is a canvas tent shop 17kms from ‘The Tip’ with all the Cape […]
Thursday Island
Thursday Island Got the Peddells Ferry at 8am. The journey is lovely out through the islands and takes about 1 hour 10 mins. The ferry was packed we got two of the last tickets. The island itself is tiny only 3.5 square kilometres. We walked from the ferry port to the Green Hill Fort which […]
Seisa
Seisa Decided to stay the night at Seisa caravan park as we want to go to Thursday Island the next day and they let you park the caravan whilst you go over to the island. Lovely camp spot right on the ocean but I was a bit concerned when they said they had security patrolling […]