all kinds of cool animals!

After the Whitsunday’s, we headed on south, stopping at a couple of lovely national parks- cape Hillsborough, where we camped by the beach- lovely! and to Eungella where we saw lots of cute busy little platypuses (platypi?)


Stayed a couple of days at Mackay- where we bought a new lantern! Its actually amazing compared to the candles we’d been using up till then. It’s a gas one and gives off so much light, and even a little bit of heat! Fantastic purchase, makes so much difference to camping life! Also saw lots of lorikeets in Mackay…


From there, we covered a bit of mileage, crossed the tropic of Capricorn around Rockhampton, and stopped at Agnes Water, and the town of 1770…where Captain Cook first came ashore in that year! It’s a lovely sleepy little place with a lovely beach, nice and relaxing for a few days after being on the road.

Next stop- Hervey Bay for one of my best days ever!!! The humpback whales come and stop in the bay there, for a little holiday from their big migration down the coast. They hang out there for a while and basically spend their time relaxing and playing around. So the whale watching trips they run are great, you can get right up beside them, and they are just the most amazing animals….so curious. The crew on the boat get you to wave around and generally allow you to act how excited you feel so you can get their attention! Then they come right over to the boat- you can see them looking up at you under the water, and swimming around, probably what these weird creatures are! We saw a few breaches right by our boat, flipper waving, and all that malarkey. So so so amazing! Love em!!!!



Actually, from there on down the coast, we saw lots of whales off the coast…it’s a great hobby and such a joy when you spot the blow out on the water!

From there, we travelled on down to the Sunshine Coast to Noosa, very pretty- saw dolphins swimming with surfers by the beach! spent a few days there and head ed off to Brisbane!
Actually, from there on down the coast, we saw lots of whales off the coast…it’s a great hobby and such a joy when you spot the blow out on the water!

From there, we travelled on down to the Sunshine Coast to Noosa, very pretty- saw dolphins swimming with surfers by the beach! spent a few days there and head ed off to Brisbane!

a few pics of the whitsundays...

at sea

hey again!

so our trip ut to the whitsundays was awesome- beuutiful boat, nice people, and stunning scenery! we did a 3 day/3 night trip, on a sailing boat called Madison- all wooden fittings, and sleeping on the boat in very narrow beds! visited several islands, including whitehaven beach which is unbelievable:


also went out to the Great Barrier Reef, and stayed there overnight. thats pretty special- its a realy rough journey out there, and then all of a sudden, hours out in the ocean, you get to the reef and its calm! we saw whales near the boat on the way out there, and they were around the reef as well. an amazing sight to see over breakfast...it was really cool to spend the night way out at sea like that too. did a bit of snorkelling and its lovely, but so so cold!

all in all great fun- one of the best in oz!