31/10/2022
Cute little snapshot of our trip! All the camps and caravan parks we stayed at!
WikiCamps was a life saver! I was on it checking locations, reviews and photos daily!
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Family Travel Blog Our Family of Five is hitting the road... 3 months in a caravan.... together at all times.... no escape!!! Are we mad???
The good news is we have the Handley Family to keep us sane! We will be caravanning a half lap of Oz together. Up through Central Australia to Darwin then across the Savannah Way to Port Douglas and down the East Coast!
27/10/2022
H O M E 🏡
🌙 87 nights in the van
🚐 15 Caravan Parks
🏕 29 Free / Farm Stay / Friends / Family stays
🚗 17,212 Kms
🥊 378 brother sister fights in the back seat!
🛠 1 broken canopy window
🔋 1 New Car Battery
🛞 1 Caravan Tyre Puncture
🥵 Hottest Day - 42 degrees - Kakadu
🥶 Coldest Day - 13 degrees - Rapid Bay
All in all we came out of this trip pretty well considering some of the horror stories you hear on the road!
We finished up our last night in style just the way we like it. In the bush, over looking the water with a campfire! Reminiscing about all our amazing adventures. Playing “remember when” and “what was your favourite”
Christian: it’s only the beginning for me! We are definitely the lucky country.
Jaqui: had an amazing time, went too quick.
Tahlee: wonderful but sad it’s over.
Xavier: surprised about Uluru. Had a pretty bloody good time.
Benji: the driving was hard, and yeah Uluru was good.
“I can see Mt Beckworth”
25/10/2022
📍 Jervis Bay
📍 Huskisson
📍 Canberra
Some stormy rainy days exploring the south coast of NSW, more beautiful beaches and cute little towns!
Parliament House ✅
Royal Australian Mint ✅
Australian War Memorial ✅
A long exhausting day learning about our currency, the difference between the Senate and the House of Representative and taking in the many stories and significance of what we read and what we saw, finishing with a lovely service at the end of the day listening to the last post.
21/10/2022
📍Port Macquarie
📍Forster
📍Sydney
Huge sand dunes, amazing views, more swims along the east coast, we even saw some dolphins.
Bunking in with the Smith’s beautiful bbq dinner, thanks for the hospitality Smithy and Sarah!
It’s raining and we are home in under a week!
⛽️ 2.42 😠
🥹🥹🥹
18/10/2022
📍 Byron Bay 🌈 🍻 🐳
After changing our route we decided to do 2 nights at Byron!
Started with a cute little market on Saturday night then a day exploring including the lighthouse, some shopping, beach, random afternoon tunes and a few drinks on the foreshore!
We spotted a humpback whale and a calf which was super cute too!
Can certainly see the appeal it’s a beautiful place!
15/10/2022
Couple of quiet days travelling further down the coast with some Rest and Relax at Tony & Mons in Brissy!
Real Beds! Gee we’ve missed those!
Benji was happy to spread out, had some swims in the pool, a little explore along Southbank and delicious dinner and dessert with Fiona Olivia and Summer!
Loved seeing you all.
13/10/2022
📍Bundaberg
📍Harvey Bay
📍Fraser Island
We pulled out jumpers for the first time in forever! Some patchy rain and cloudy skies!
Bundaberg Rum Distillery (still don’t like Rum but the chocolate coffee liqueur will be perfect for Xmas drinks!
Bundaberg Brewed Drinks was much more up our alley! We tasted every flavour and took home a couple of 6 packs!
Urangan Pier in Harvey Bay a whopping 800m long! Xavier’s Birthday Celebrations (pancakes for brekkie, maccas for lunch and bangers & mash for dinner)
Fraser Island for a full day.
• Lake McKenzie 😍
• Central Station with 100yr old sand filtered water from the creek!
• 800 and 1000 year old Satinay Trees 😳
• Driving along 75mile beach! With speed signs! The local highway of Fraser Island splashing in the waves was a bit scary!
Christian: Rum’s not all that bad! Especially at 10:30 in the morning!
Jaqui: the Satinay trees are mind blowing!
Xavier: Molasses smells horrible and my birthday was the best
Benji: Fraser Island was pretty good.
Tahlee: floating down Eli Creek was fun!
10/10/2022
Every night on the trip!
08/10/2022
A I R L I E 🌺 B E A C H
What a beautiful place! Kids loved it, we loved it and we’re actually able to relax!
Whitehaven Beach was definitely a highlight onboard the Camira Cattamaran.
Lunches, Dinners, Ice Creams, waterslide heaven at the Big 4! Movie nights at the outdoor cinema were a hit!
Lots of card playing! Lots of drinks!
Truly a relaxing 6 nights! ☺️☺️☺️
Hideaway Bay 👌
Dingo Beach 👌
Cedar Creek Falls (pretty but no swimming due to the snakes)
Further south today with a touch of rain!!! Nothing like Victoria though!
05/10/2022
Mondays Adventure was aboard the purple Camira! Sailing the Whitsundays!
Amazing crew, Tunes, Drinks, Snorkeling, Beach Hike to Hill Inlet lookout 😱 Whitehaven Beach, Lunch, more tunes, more drinks! 👌
Almost 10 hours aboard the catamaran with only Xav and I getting a little woozy at one point! Kids all agreed it was one of the best days!
01/10/2022
📍South Mission Beach
📍Townsville
🚗 12550kms
• Some lovely drives down the coast, lots of rainforest, lots of beaches!
• South Mission Beach was lovely, warm wavy water, perfect swimming and playing for kids.
• Townsville for dinner and exploring.
• Castle Hill lookout and of course Tahlee’s zipline across the jaw dropping gap!
• Dinner of the waterfront
• BBQ with the Smith’s
• Sneak Casino visit for the boys! Including scooter ride 🛵
Kids are excited for BIG4 Adventure Whitsunday Resort today! 🏝 6 nights of kid heaven! 😝
Christian: Townsville not a bad part of the world!
Jaqui: bigger than I thought! Nice though!
Benji: it’s been crap lately (to be fair he also also has an ear infection)
Xavier: liked it at Discovery Park!
Tahlee: ZipLine was the best!
28/09/2022
Today was a difficult day!
Today we started our decent south!
Not sure if we’re happy or sad to be heading homeward! 🫤🙃
Port Douglas has been amazing though!
Warm waters! Pituresce beaches! Super fun caravan park!
Here’s the summary:
📍Cape Tribulation for quiet stunning and secluded beaches! But no swimming due to croc risk!
📍Daintree Rainforest learning about the entire ecosystems from forest floor to canopy! And a close encounter with a Cassowary! 500 year old trees and some dinosaurs too!
📍Mossman Gorge beautiful fresh waters and little rapids! Grateful that my kids are good swimmers and we could experience this!
And can’t forget the caravan park! Pool ✅ Waterslides ✅ Pizza Night ✅ cooked in the pizza oven! 🍕 😋
24/09/2022
Cairns. Hot and Humid!
Fig Tree Playground • Lagoon • Night Markets • Karunda historic railway • Skyrail 😳 • Palm Cove • Trinity Beach • Movie night at the caravan park • Glenn’s Birthday •
✅ ✅ ✅
Powered sites for the win!!! No more free sites with this humidity! 🥵
Turns out supermarket shopping is important mum relaxation time!!!
Great to catch up with the Smith’s (even with smithy on a cats grand final day) 😂
23/09/2022
Lunch at Karunda Village 😋
20/09/2022
📍 Atherton and Babinda 🌴🌺🌾🍌
Well and truly hit the tropics!!
Spent the afternoon exploring Milla Milla, Zillie and Ellinjaa they were all so beautiful, Milla Milla was a beautiful little dairy town where my grandma (Uma) spent her childhood! 💚 was so nice to imagine her living here!
Babinda was a cute little surprise! Josephine Falls and Babinda Boulders, you’d think we’d be sick of swimming in amazing locations but no…
Banana Plantations (we bought some from the side of the road) and Sugar Cane Trains!!! The mountains are amazing and everything is GREEN!!!
19/09/2022
Waterfall hopping around Milla Milla today
18/09/2022
NT to QLD
📍Threeways
📍Barkly Homestead
📍Mt Isa
📍Cloncurry
📍Bourke and Wills Roadhouse
📍Normanton 🐊
📍Karumba
🚗 10,610km
⛽️ 2.25 (looking forward to east coast prices) 🤞
A few nights on the road stopping at roadside camps, fuel stops, sneaky roadhouse beers!
Before pulling up at Karumba for two nights! Always good to be back on power with big showers and washing machines!!!
It was a cute little fishing village with huge river inlet, sunsets to die for, right on the edge of Gulf of Carpentaria. Benji put a line in but no luck! We had heaps of cute little kangaroos throughout the day next to the vans too.
Fresh local seafood lunch! 🍤 yum!
Late Dinner at the pub last night where we discovered hundreds of cute little hermit crabs making their way down to the beach! And a few cane toads 🐸
Benji: fishing was fun! Geelong in the granny! Wooo!!
Xavier: the giant grasshoppers were cool.
Tahlee: hermit crabs were the best.
Christian: hermit crabs were cool bringing back childhood memories!
Jaqui: seafood lunch was delicious!
11/09/2022
K A K A D U 🐊 🐗 🐃 🐴 🦘 🌺
🚗 8410km
⛽️ 2.40
A totally different place and experience! And very hot!
Loads of animals, wild pigs, dingoes, horses, donkeys, water buffalo, snakes birds of all shapes and sizes!
And of course CROCS!!!
Managed happy hour by the pool, cocktails and coronas while the kids had some solid screen time 😂😂🍹🍺
And watched Friday night footy outside the vans at a balmy 30 degrees!
Cultural Cruise ✅
UBirr Rock at Sunset ✅
Exploring Jabiru ✅
Beautiful Rock Art ✅
Jim Jim Falls ✅
Maguk Falls ✅
Xavier: jumping off the rocks at Maguk Falls.
Tahlee: Sitting at the front of the croc tour with London.
Benji: finally seeing a dingo and jumping off the rocks at Maguk Falls
Jaqui: Learning about the crocs on the Cultural Cruise and happy hour!
Christian: That was a lot of crocs!
09/09/2022
Today we experienced Cahills Crossing from the water! 🫣😳😳😳
So many great big crocs awaiting the fish coming in from high tide!
Our tour on the East Alligator River was so interesting! We also got to visit Arnhem Land and learn about food sources, aboriginal artwork and the role of crocs in the top end!!!
Wow!
07/09/2022
Darwin
What a week! Could have spent so much more time here, feel like we only experienced a little bit!
(Lots of photos)
📍Adelaide River Jumping Crocs
📍Humpty Doo Pub
📍Waterfront Aqua Park
📍Mindil Beach Market
📍Palmerston Water Park
📍Waterfront
📍Trailer Boat Club
📍Berry Springs
📍Lee Point
📍Nightcliffe Jetty
📍Jetty Buffet (5🌟according to Xavier)
📍RFDS
📍Darwin Military Museum
📍Leanyer Recreation Park
Phew, busy busy! But so much fun!
Tahlee: I just love Darwin
Jaqui: Love this place!
Xavier: liked the water slides the best and Mindil Market.
Benji: All good, water parks are the best!
Christian: met my expectations, and more!
06/09/2022
Day out in Darwin with afternoon drinks! 🍹
Crocodile Cage of Death!!! 🫣
Crocosaurus Cove Darwin
04/09/2022
Tea Time! 😋
03/09/2022
Thanks for suggesting this amazing trip!
And thanks for all the driving!
02/09/2022
Litchfield National Park
📍Florence Falls
📍Buley Rockholes
📍Wangi Falls
🚗 6830km
Epic couple of days, couldn’t fit all the falls and walks in but had a great time exploring, jumping off rocks, swimming, bombing and diving!
And checking out some of the termite mounds!
Hot nights without power but still managed to get the footy on Kayo! 😂
Priorities!!!
Christian: yeah! Great place to swim!
Benji: Wangi Falls was best, cause you could jump off high up!
Xavier: I liked jumping off all the rocks at Buley Rockholes
Tahlee: really good time! Fabulous!
Jaqui: Rockholes were bliss!
I took 5000 photos and videos!!!
30/08/2022
📍Katherine
📍Katherine Farmstay
📍Edith Falls 💚
Couple of quiet but busy days amongst Katherine at the hot springs and beautiful waterfall and rock pools at Edith Falls
Quick swim turned into quite a few hours!
Weather is much hotter! Yesterday we saw 40degrees! Which makes for fun evenings without power! Aahhh this is what it’s all about though!
Heading into Litchfield National Park for a few days of waterfall hopping!!!! 💦
27/08/2022
Mataranka
📍 Little Roper Stock Camp 🌟
📍Mataranka Homestead and Thermal Pools
📍 Bitter Springs
🚗 6026km
• What a little gem of a spot! 3 nights at kid paradise! Rough as guts but we loved it! Animals and reptiles to hold and feed!
Johnny Cakes (scones/donuts) and Billie Tea for breakfast!
• Mataranka Thermal Pools, a little paradise! Crystal clear blue water 34degrees! Beautiful location under the palm trees 🌴
• Bitter Springs heaps more natural, floated down another crystal clear little creek, approx 100m then did it again and again!
• We spent lots of time relaxing and catching up on washing, hair cut for Tahlee, playing cards and planning the next part of our trip over arvo drinks!! 🍻
Benji: 8/10
Xavier: love the swimming!
Tahlee: the best place yet! Cause you can pat animals and stuff! 🐰
Christian: Finally some warmer weather!
Jaqui: Loved the camp, so relaxed, not a care in the world! Rope swing, hay bales, and two random slides kept kids entertained for ages! Hot Springs delightful!
25/08/2022
Quiet few days on the road!
Alice Springs to Mataranka!
A lazy 900km hike over two days!
Found some cute little places along the road, including a cool basketball court in Elliot! Benji was out the car before we even stopped!
Karlu-Karlu /Devils Marbles were pretty spectacular!
Quick fuel stop at Tennant Creek!
An overnight stop next to the Ghan Trainline with beautiful sunset and lastly on to Daly Waters Pub! We will spend some more time here on the way back. So much to see!
But for now a lazy few days floating in the hot springs at Mataranka!
24/08/2022
Photo of the day!
📍 Karlu Karlu / Devils Marbles
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