July 2016

Bundaberg, Queensland: First Stop on My Australian Road Trip thumbnail

As you probably know, towards the end of last week I returned home from my 19 day road trip. My journey took me from Brisbane to, eventually, Port Douglas. I have been blogging about it on the way, but as promised, now that I’m back I can let you know more about it. First stop [...]

Cairns and Port Douglas: Even Better Than Expected thumbnail

At around 6:45 PM yesterday I arrived back home, marking the end of my Queensland coast road trip. All in all, I covered 5,021 km, just about pipping my 2009 road trip of 4,774 kilometres. Whilst that trip took me south down to Sydney and then round to Melbourne, this road trip was all about [...]

My Queensland Coast Road Trip: The Journey Home thumbnail

My road trip is pretty much over, apart from the small matter of driving back home. It may have taken me nine days to get to Cairns, but I will be going back in three. This is quite a comfortable journey, with around three 7 hour-ish stints on the road and two overnight stops. Most [...]

rainforest

It’s going to be a quick post today, because I’m having internet connection problems, just as I did on my road trip back in 2009. At that time though, I was travelling through places like Sydney and Melbourne, at least this time I made it all the way to Port Douglas in Far North Queensland [...]

Scuba Diving on the Great Barrier Reef thumbnail

A long time ago on this blog we played a very silly game of ‘Where’s Wally’. On that occasion, Wally was a kookaburra. Today we are going to play ‘Where’s Wally’ again. This time though, Wally is a fish. Can you spot Wally? I can assure you that Wally is a real fish, this isn’t [...]