Author Archives: Barry

These blogs may be getting boring to read, but we are not getting bored traveling around. Much of the scenery could be described as “blah”, but to us it is all new. It’s just hard to put into words what … Continue reading →

Last night we headed out to the local bowls club for dinner. We’ve noticed in a few towns that the bowls clubs have public restaurants. This one had the added bonus that, with presentation of our room key, we got … Continue reading →

Last night we stayed in one of the hotels we were in on the nortbound leg of the journey, this wasn’t intentional we had just forgotten we had been there, until we checked in! It was a good place with … Continue reading →

New titles are hard to come by! After a makeshift breakfast, the hotel provided a toaster but no plates or cutlery, we headed out on one of the longer legs of the return journey at around 375kms. Nothing near our … Continue reading →

We scouted out the restaurants yesterday afternoon for last nights meal, there weren’t any. Luckily the local Spar store was open so we picked up some salads and some sausages fro the BBQ. The distance from the chalet to the … Continue reading →

We walked down to the local Pub last night for some well needed exercise, then back to the motel. Woke up around the normal time this morning and just  took life easy. Today was to be a quiet sightseeing day. … Continue reading →

Cooktown was the Northernmost stop on our trip at 15⁰S, partly because of time constraints, partly because there doesn’t seem to be too much more up there and most importantly our car will not be insured if we go further! … Continue reading →

We are now on the fringes of civilisation in Cooktown, data up here is SLOW so this will be a picture-less entry. As we are taking the inland route back to Brisbane there may not be any blogs for the … Continue reading →

An even earlier early morning for us today. After breakfast we headed out to the marina in Cairns to join our boat out to the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) The journey out to the reef was about 2 hours, with … Continue reading →

Had to set the alarm this morning to be up 30 minutes earlier than usual! As it was we both woke up 1 minute before the alarm. After breakfast we went to reception and waited for our coach. Today we … Continue reading →