There are two things to know about Chili Beach. Wind and Coconuts. In that order. It was blowing a gale whilst we were there but apparently that is the norm. No place […]
Chili Beach, Iron Range National Park
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Musgrave, Cohen and Archer River
Musgrave and Archer River are a couple of roadhouses on the peninsular development road that you pass through whilst heading north towards the tip of Cape York. There’s some interesting history around […]
Cape Melville National Park
Onto our first remote bush camp for our North Queensland trip – Cape Melville National Park. We took the dodgy 4WD track north of Cooktown that follows the coast directly to Cape […]
Cooktown, Queensland
Cooktown is of course the location where Captain Cook beached his ship for repairs in 1770. We camped on the side of the road on the way to Cooktown and ended up […]
Daintree and CREB Track
We planned to do a famous offroad track, the CREB track, through the Daintree rainforest and it’s accessed from Daintree Village so that is where we stayed. We relaxed in the caravan […]
Cairns, Queensland
We headed to Cairns excited about the prospect of a hot shower and dry clothes after enduring non stop rain whilst on Mt Bartle Frere. Cairns is a nice city with lot’s […]
Bowen, Wooroonooran National Park and Mt Bartle Frere
After Townsville we headed towards Wooroonooran National Park via Bowen. On the way we passed by a little shop on the side of the road where we topped up on some fresh […]
Townsville, Queensland
From Airlie Beach we headed to Townsville which is a surprisingly large city spread over a vast distance. Traffic wasn’t bad but we noticed we were spending a lot of time stopped […]
Back on the Road – Airlie Beach
We had some battery problems which delayed our departure from Brisbane by a couple of days. The auxiliary battery was not charging. In dodgy fashion Joe hooked up a 19V laptop power supply to […]
Getting Ready
We’re back in Brisbane where we’ve dragged the Hilux out from 7 months of hibernation in Phil’s garage. We call Phil’s house “base camp” now because it is the staging point for […]
Back in the Red Dust
Joe is in Port Hedland working for a few months to save up to fund the rest of our trip. Just coz he’s working doesn’t mean he can’t sneak in some fishing […]
Nha Trang, Vietnam
On the way to Nha Trang we got confirmation of Joe’s job back in Australia so Nha Trang would be our final destination together on our south east Asia trip, about 5 […]
Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam
With word that Joe might have a job to go back in Australia, we jumped on a plane from Hanoi and headed straight to Ho Chi Minh, bypassing most of Vietnam. We […]
Ha Long Bay, Vietnam
We did a 2 night, 3 day tour of Ha Long Bay which is about 5 hours trip on the bus from Hanoi. It’s only about 150km but the Vietnamese traffic is […]
Sapa, Vietnam
Onto the overnight sleeper train we go on our way to Sapa in northern Vietnam. We made friends with the couple in our booth on the train and they shared a drink and some food with us. […]
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