Thursday and Friday 12th& 13thApril 2018 Our drive through Hervey Bay and Noosa into Coolum Beach marked our return to ‘civilisation’ after three days off the beaten track. Our ‘welcome’ to the Sunshine Coast was a sharp increase in campsite charges from $30 to $63 a night. The Sunshine Coast is made up of a … Continue reading The Sunshine Coast

Monday 9thto Wednesday 11thApril 2018 My apologies blog fans for the lack of posts over the last few days but it is due to a combination of the fast pace of living and a lack of connectivity out here in the bush. I will bring you up to date with our Commonwealth Games Experiences later … Continue reading Bundaberg and Back Again

Tuesday 3rdApril 2018 Prince Charles and his missus, Camilla, are clearly among the many avid followers of this blog. They have been inspired by reading of our adventures to come out and join in the fun! By the time you read this they should be here and joining us at the Gold Coast for the … Continue reading Brisbane

Monday 2ndApril 2018 (Today’s headline is sponsored by Martin Leech) One of the first places on my list of ‘must sees’ when we began planning our trip down under was the Daintree Rainforest. The Daintree is the oldest surviving rainforest in the world, dating back millions of years to the time when Australia was part … Continue reading Carry on up the Jungle!

Sunday 1stApril 2018 Having seen off a few sharks yesterday, I was on a roll. The adrenaline was pumping and there seemed like no better time to go and stare down a salt-water crocodile or two. Salt-water crocodiles, or ‘salties’ as we established is the way most Australians refer to them, are more precisely called … Continue reading ‘Strayl-yah’

Saturday 31stMarch 2018 A subject that I haven’t touched on so far, in these scribblings on Australia, is this country’s many and varied types of animals that have the propensity to kill you. A lot of these live in the sea! For example, I mentioned yesterday about the stinger alert at the beach that led … Continue reading Stingers, Sharks, Turtles and High Tea!

Friday 30thMarch 2018 Today was a blessing, a gentle Good Friday morning. After a sequence of early starts and being awoken by my raucous phone alarm it was a pleasure to have a lie in and wake gradually. I spent the morning catching up with the ‘blog – I am sorry that I have been … Continue reading The Age of Aquarius

Thursday 29th March 2018 Imagine, if you will, flying into an airport in the middle of the Peak District, perhaps in one of the tighter valleys, say the upper reaches of the river Dove? That is the sensation you get flying into Cairns, an airport that is surrounded by green fields embraced closely by the … Continue reading Typically Tropical

Wednesday 28th March 2018 Two very excited parents joined the holidaymakers and business people on the early morning flight from Sydney to Brisbane. It was strange not having to show passports, but the security checks were just as stringent. After our two previous marathon flights it seemed that we were outside Brisbane Airport in no … Continue reading We caught the Katy in Queensland

Tuesday 27th March 2018 The early start is because Wendy and I are ‘going bush’ as they say around these parts. We are catching the 0653 train to the Blue Mountains. Another of the many advantages of our hotel is that it is less than ten minutes walk from the main Sydney railway station, Central … Continue reading A bird in the bush!