Had such a great day yesterday, great to spend day in hotel chilling! Not sick of van/hostels a night in hotel is nice every now and again! Woke up before carol this morning to headed onto our sun laden balcony to catch some rays! We faced the sunrise but were a little too tired to actually get up for it! We quickly moved onto Rowes caravan site and actually got last powered site! We drove to Castletown shopping centre to pick up some bits and pieces and to put...

We left Mission Beach for Townsville about 9am. Had a massive day of driving ahead..well Carol did! Before we left there was the exchange of anniversary cards and the presents we were not getting each other! During the drive along coast it was very evident to see the damage the cyclone (Yasi) caused Queensland when it hit. Roofs were still torn off houses and not replaced, trees which faced the brunt of storm either rooted up or bent drastically. These were tree...

Woke up around 9am today - had some scrambled eggs on toast for breakie before departing towards Atherton tablelands. This isn't the normal route people take whilst driving south but reading other travellers blogs, they say the scenery up this way is pretty spectacular! They weren't wrong! First town we hit was Gordonvale, about 20km from Cairns. We then proceeded to drive up a mountain (only word I can give it but with nicer roads) to Heales lookout - we read ...

Lot of trouble sleeping last night mainly due to humidity. Could not for the life of me adjust to it - kept tossing and turning all night. We woke and seen we were parked next to an activities field which had 3 games of baseball going on...f**k, there goes my bond of $2500 we had to put down on the van! We got dressed and had mega quick breakie before booking into same site (but powered tonight). We then set off to Port Douglas, a road that would put the ring ...