Here we go again with the film version of our travels, this time for far North-East Queensland.  What a beautifully luscious part of our magnificent country!

Enjoy. Xo

It has been a while since I have posted about our travels, apologies!!  Got a bit caught up with collecting our new camper, seeing family & catching up with a few friends along the way.

Anyways, here goes to kicking it off where we left last time…  After leaving Karumba it was again time to sit our arses in Perry the Patrol & get rolling once more.  We were on the road towards Cairns, via The Atherton Table Lands.  Holy smokes were we pumped to be heading back to the east coast.  It’s been so long!!

The Atherton Table lands are breathtaking.  Luscious rainforests, rolling green hills & waterfalls to boot.  Plus epic local produce if it tickles your fancy.  It was truly a breath of fresh air to be surrounded in such vibrant rainforest.  Since we have spent the past 4-5 months in the outback with a LOT of dust.  It reminded me of our very green island home, Tasmania.

We spent a lot of time doing short walks to waterfalls & swimming holes.  You can’t ever get enough of waterfalls really can you..? (Ah hem, NO).

Cairns was great to stop in a get a good feed & a few beers on the waterfront.  While we were here my brother phoned me, just to chat.  He asked us where abouts we were & when we told him he was like “No shit, I’m coming to Cairns on the weekend!!!”.  How friggin random!!?  Oh and how friggin awesome!!?  I have missed my family terribly throughout this year of constant travelling.  It has been the longest time I have ever been away from them.  And so it was SO great to see my youngest bro Robbie, even if it did mean crashing his end of season footy trip antics!

Fred thought it would be a good idea to throw Barney a stick out on the mud flats at low tide at main beach in Cairns.  FAIL!  Stinky, filthy shepherd it is!

The coastline south of Cairns all the way to Cook Town is beautiful & green.  With palm trees crowding every foreshore & luscious green mountains as far as you dare look, it definitely isn’t harsh on the eyes.

Port Douglas although filled with tourists, was gorgeous.  And it seemed you never had to drive too far from the main towns / communities to get a beach (almost) to yourself.  A few nice places to eat & drink about too.  We found this one rum bar on the main strip, definitely worth a gander if you’re here.  Some of the mixes were pretty out there!

Recent discovery we have made – Barney LOVES coconuts.  LOL.  Like LOVE loves them.  He would chase them all day, all night if he could.  And that’s great with us, no need to buy any more expensive doggy toys that are broken within 2 minutes!

We stayed at Fred’s friend Jack’s place in Mossman.  On his family’s beautiful sugar cane farm, at the foot of the Daintree & Mossman Gorge.  And this is where we left Barney before we headed further north, toward Cook Town & Cape York.  The Daintree National Park is a no go zone for pooches & we thought its getting a bit too hot & sweaty for a shaggy dog to go up the Cape at this time of year.  Plus the Cape is planned to be a fishing trip, & though Barney loves coming out in the tinny, that’s usually only for a couple hours at most.  I cried when we left him.  It’s the longest stint we have done without him, but I knew he was in good hands.

Mega big shout out to the Murday family!!  For taking Barney in on their farm, & looking after him so well.  He had such a good time he wasn’t even that excited to see us when we came back & collected him almost a month later!!

We both frothed on The Daintree area.  With a continued theme of thick rainforest, beautiful beaches & good fishing we couldn’t go wrong.  It is a shame you can’t swim off the mainland coastline in north Queensland.  Well, you can’t swim if crocodiles, killer jellyfish, sharks & swimming knives bother you anyway!  There are some designated swimming areas that have been netted off, but it’s not really the same as running down to a deserted beach & swimming out off the shore.  Everywhere has it’s ups & downs.  Hose offs at camp work just as well cooling you down anyway!

Spotted a few of these guys from our tinny during our fishing sessions.  Pretty darn scary really, they are so big!  And we know crocs can jump bloody high.  And our boat is verrrrry small.  They always seem to pop up / out of nowhere too, they are ambush predators after all.  The king’s of stealth!  When we saw them from our tinny we would just calmly putt off in a different direction, LOL.

Cape Tribulation was one of the highlights of the Daintree.  It had an awesome camp right by the beach, with a place to have a flick close by, trees to climb & coconuts to eat (if you can manage getting them down from the trees!).

Watching Fred getting some coconuts down from some very high coconut trees.  Very amusing!  Such a tastey snack.

After exploring the Daintree it was time to start heading up Cape York Peninsula.  Only pretty much the whole reason Fred wanted to do this trip around Australia in the first place.  And literally alllllll he has been talking about for the past 10 months, LOL.  Hype levels are high to say the least!

For now though I will leave our story here, & will pick back up with some Cape time gossip soon.

Stay tuned! X o

 

We’ve been a bit slow on the blog front of late, caught up in all our travels I guess!!

Here’s a snap of our time in far north-west Queensland.  Enjoy! Xo