Our last stop before getting back to Brisbane was visiting Sharni’s friend from Katherine who is now living in Noosa Heads. We crashed at her house for a couple of nights for […]
Noosa Heads, Queensland
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a camping trip of ridiculous proportions
Claude Wharton Weir
Leaving Banana, Joe picked a camping spot a comfortable day’s drive south where he could do some fishing. Claude Wharton Weir, near Gayndah, was the campsite of choice. It’s free too. To […]
Banana, Queensland
Bananas are Sharni’s favourite food. So when we discovered there was a town called Banana in Queensland we thought it prudent to visit. On the way there from Charters Towers we got […]
Charters Towers, Queensland
We detoured inland from the Queensland coast to visit Sharni’s ultimate destination – a town called Banana. On the way we passed through Charters Towers, a town founded on a gold rush […]
Balgal Beach, Queensland
Where to go for the AFL grand final? We ended up picking a little town called Balgal beach because it’s on the beach and it has free camping. Can you believe the […]
Port Douglas Fishing Charter
After diving from Cairns we headed to Port Douglas where we had a fishing charter booked in. We got to Port Douglas in the evening and camped up by some sugar cane […]
Great Barrier Reef Diving
Back to Cairns we go to spend more time in the region after we passed through on our way up the cape. Coming from Normanton we drove through the Atherton Table lands […]
Normanton, Queensland
We took off early from Karumba so we’d get to spend the day in Normanton. It’s a short 70km trip down the road so we got to Normanton pretty early with the […]
Karumba, Queensland
After many weeks of dirt roads and 4WD tracks we were finally back on some bitumen as we approached Karumba. It would be bitumen for the remainder of our trip so time […]
Heading Back South From The Tip
Well we’ve reached the climax of our Cape York trip with a visit to the tip and a day trip to Thursday Island. Now it’s time to come back down from those […]
Thursday Island, Torres Straight
Joe needed many beers to fuel the energy he needed as he struggled with the fire, continuously tending to it and splitting wet wood with his knife to get it to burn […]
Somerset, Cape York Peninsular
Somerset is an abandoned settlement near the tip of Cape York established by the Jardine Family (namesake of the Jardine River) in 1863 to provide a presence in the Cape York area, […]
The Tip of Cape York, Queensland
We made it! The northernmost point of the Australian mainland. And we snuck in for a photo just before the hoards of elderly rocked up by the bus load. They come in […]
Punsand Bay, Cape York Peninsular
Don’t worry about cooking dinner. Check out the huge black lip oysters we found at Punsand Bay. Finally after weeks of searching we found some decent sized black lips. These oysters are […]
Seisia and Bamaga, Cape York, Queensland
The pub at Bamaga was closed when we first cruised through so after Mutee Head we went back to Bamaga to sneak in a quick beer at the pub. Then to the […]
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