Friday morning we once again work our way north, and we pass a sugarcane museum, where we stop, as this is what we had been looking for in Ingham, to find answers to some of our outstanding questions about the process of sugar making.  We enjoy the old machinery, but Continue Reading

Saturday morning we pack up a pretty soaked awning, mat, privacy screen, and what we’re wearing, ie our rain jackets… We leave Paronella Park and set off back down the coast a little, on our way to visit a very old friend.  We stop at Cardwell again, this time for Continue Reading

Monday we continue our travels north, and stop overnight at a tiny place called Calen, somewhere between Mackay and Proserpine, where we camp at a huge private property on a ‘river’, which we must cross to gain access; the first time the car and van drive through (around 20cm deep) Continue Reading

We drive straight from Stokers Siding with only a (terrible) take away coffee stop to arrive at Burpengary, where we have booked our caravan into a dealer to install little airfans that we consider a necessity after our 5 day shake down in March when it was superhot. We drop Continue Reading

Finally the day has come that we are out and about again. We have been planning to be away in our new caravan on a big trip for quite a while, and so looking forward to it. Arno has updated our blog’s car and van picture. This trip is estimated Continue Reading

Friday 9 September: Townsville – Magnetic Island After arriving at 11pm at our hotel in Townsville last night, we get up early to bring our car in for its 15K km service; this was originally scheduled for Monday at home, but as this was not going to be feasible with Continue Reading

Friday 19 August: Winton – start of Dinosaur trail Early start to get to the Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum around 25km out of town beautifully built on top of the ‘Jump up’ . Our visit consisted of 3 separate tours; we started with a walk to the Fossil Preparation Laboratory where we Continue Reading

This post is just to share the very very sad and completely unexpected news that Arno’s sister Annette suddenly passed away, and that we will be flying home to collect our passports and then on to the Netherlands to be with family and to say goodbye to Annette. Most of Continue Reading

Monday 15 August: Lake Dunn – Longreach We head back south to Barcaldine to pick up our route to go west. We gave the coffee in town a miss this time but spent a bit of time getting to know the importance of this town. It’s a pretty town, and Continue Reading

Saturday 13 August: Emerald – Lara Wetlands A (for us) very early start to cover a decent distance to Lara Wetlands. It started to rain about 20 minutes before we left and we left it behind as soon as we hit westbound Capricorn Highway. The Capricorn highway runs east – Continue Reading