Day 80: Forest Glen to Brisbane Only 18 days left of our 'trip of a life time'. It is hard to believe we are in Brisbane already, the last couple of months have flown by. As I mentioned, we are currently in Brisbane for the sole purpose of catching up with our good friend Christian. We are meeting up with him tomorrow which gave us this afternoon to explore. Top of the list of things to do was to fill the gas bottle, so after doing that we ventured to the lo...

Days 78 & 79: Hervey Bay to Forest Glen We returned to big4 Forest Glen yesterday. We stayed here about 6 years ago when Brandon was still a baby and enjoyed ourselves so we were looking forward to returning. The park hasn't changed, except for the management team. Everything else is almost exactly the same. The sites are all drive through with the slabs at the front of the site so you can't leave the car hooked up. If we lined our van up with the slab ...

Day 77: Fraser Island Yesterday he steered a boat and today he co-piloted a plane. That is the adventurous life of my 7 year old. Today we took a tour of Fraser Island. We had initially planned to drive ourselves and spend the day but decided to do a tour and let someone else drive for us. We chose the premium tour so there were fewer numbers. Highlights included central station which also included a rainforest walk where our tour guide greeted us at the ot...

Day 76: Whale Watching We saw whales today! Micaela and Ethan thought it was fantastic, Brandon got a little bored after the first couple. The whales were plentiful and we were fortunate to see a few of them frolicking together, however they weren't curious and therefore did not come alongside the boat as I had hoped. Never mind, they did come close and we were fortunate to encounter a curious dolphin that followed the boat. On the return trip the captain pe...

Day 75: Bundaberg to Hervey Bay I am so excited! We have reached a part of the trip that I have been really looking forward to, it is the reason we chose to take the route we took, heading south so we would be at Hervey Bay at the right time to see the whales. Tomorrow we are doing just that. The bus is picking us up at 7.25am to ferry us to the boat for breakfast and a morning of whale watching. I can't wait, have I mentioned that I am really excited. T...