I am just south of Townsville and it is about 20’C and every nice. So fare I have been to Dubbo Zoo and many other fun and not so fun places. At Dubbo Zoo we saw lots of different animals like Rhino, Elephant’s, Gibbon’s but my favorite was the Tiger. We have also been to Fraser Island and lots of other places most of you wouldn’t have heard of before. But at one place it was –5C when we woke up. I don’t miss the weather at all. We have been doing many other things. We hope to be up in Cains by Wednesday. We (as in Campbell and I) went in the pool and so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so freezing. We stayed at Gladstone for 1 night. Then headed off to Makay. When we got to Makay we had to see one of Dad’s clients after that we all decided to keep on going for one more hour till we got to Proserpine. So we got Red Roster for tea. When we got to Proserpine we also decided that we would stay in a motel. We got up early and headed off to Bowen for breaky we got to Bowen and had breaky on the rocks at Horseshoe Bay. We went snorkeling there and I saw a Spanish dancer. When we got to Townsville we headed off to The Strand to go to the Water Park and get an ice cream. I made tea, which was Steak, haloomi (Cheese), Potato, Sweet Potato and pea’s ‘n’ corn. When we woke up we went to the jumping pillow at lunchtime we went down to the strand for about one hour. Today we’re going to Cairns via Wallamen Falls. When we got to the Falls we walked down and walked back up the very, very, very steep hill. The falls are 268 meters high. When we got to Cairns and went in our apartment and got Chinese for tea. The next day we saw the dickens and went to meet grand pa on our scooters.
Campbell
I’m about 300km from Townsville it is about 26’C so its nice and warm. We stopped at Bimbi you’re a champion if you find it on a map. We had a very hot fire. We camped on the side of the road. We stopped at Dubbo zoo were you ride bikes and scooters. We stopped at my Dad’s friends place for the night near Parks. In the morning it was –5’C it was hard to pack up.
We stopped at Maroochydore on the sunshine coast. Next we went to Fraser Island for two nights it rained for nearly the whole time. Next we went to Bagara I found 4 or 5 geckos. Next we stayed at Gladstone I got bitten by a gecko.
At the moment we are staying at Proserpine. We some times wait in the car for 1 or 2 hours for Dad to visit clients. We stopped to have Breakfast at Bowen I went snorkeling I saw a coral Parrotfish In-between Townsville and Proserpine.
We stopped at Townsville for two nights the first day we had an ice cream and we went to a water playground at the strand. The next day we went to a church and after we went back to the water playground.
We went to the biggest waterfall in Australia and then we went to Cairns.At the moment we are at Cairns at a Motel.We have been sitting round the TV.
Rhys
What can I say so far, 4400kms in the car = a very sore backside! We have seen some lovely country and just about worked out once you get past Heywood sugar for large sections of the coast once you get past one sugar mill you can often see the exhaust stack of the next sugar mill.
Some of the memorable spots we have stayed so far:
1. Drovers stop @ Bimbi 0’C but a nice warm fire.
2. 2 nights on Fraser Island we tride to escape gale force winds so we stayed inland in a rain forest. I now know why it is a rain forest, it pored rain for 2 days, nice camping!
3. Friends farm near Coonabarabran (minus)-5’C with a fantastic frost outside the camper trailer, just a much ice inside as well!
4. Breakfast @ Horseshoe bay near Bowen. Ceral on the rocks, snorkeling with the coral chat with the local regular beach council.
5. Wellaman falls 268 metres of free falling water, largest in Australia.
6. Riding about 8km on scooters around Dubbo zoo.
Think normally it is about 3200km to Cairns but we have been doing some detours for work. Having seen sugar cane fields in Thailand and India I’m in awe of how far up the Australian east coast they extend for, truly an iconic Australian scene.
Tomorrow we are off to the cape with friends realy looking forward to it!
