We’ve Made it to Cairns
Yesterday, we drove from Ayr to Cairns on a wet and rainy day. This is one of the destination places that form the purpose of our trip to this area of Far North Queensland. The weather alternated between drizzle and rain for most of the day, so we didn’t stop very much along the way.Perhaps, […]
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From Mackay to Ayr
We left Mackay earlier than our nornal departure time and began our drive north to Ayr. There is. nothing special to report about the first stages of our day other than we drove through may kilometres of sugar cane fields. Occasionally we crossed a narrow guage cane train line and saw some wagons loaded and […]
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Looking Around Mackay
As we arrived into Mackay last night, it seemed that every second building on the highway was a motel. Although not the same, it reminded me of ’The Strip’ of hotels along Highway 494 in Minneapolis. The place where we are staying just blended in to the continuous stretch of accommodation signs and we had […]
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Rockhampton to Mackay
Rockhampton is a sprawling city on the Fitzroy River. The central business district, particularly along Quay Street has one of the most elegant, and well preserved, streetscapes in the country. The concentration of beautiful old buildings, the tree lined streets, the gently flowing Fitzroy River beside Quay Street, all make this area of Rockhampton’s CBD […]
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We’ve Travelled Through a Number of Old Towns Today
Before leaving Mundubbera, we stopped in the main street for breakfast at the only cafe in town. It served a delicious brekkie wrap. This is only a smalll town but it does have a war memorial in the roundabout at the top of the street by the post office. We came across the little town […]
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Tonight We Are In Mundubbera
Before we get into today’s travel detail, I have two important things to report. Today is he first day that I did not need to wear a jumper since we left home. The weather is certainly getting warmer as we head further north. Today is the exact anniversary of me having to report for National […]
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Exploring Toowoomba
No one is entirely sure what “toowoomba” meant in the language of the local Barumggam people. It may mean either ‘the swamp’; a variety of melon which grows on the banks of the swamp; or the reeds on the edge of the swamp. We used our time in this, the largest inland city in Queensland, […]
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Moree to Toowoomba via Goondiwindi
After our late arrival into Moree yesterday, we were ready to leave our hotel by 9.00 am to spend some time seeing the sights of the town. Moree promotes itself as the “Home of Artesian Water Country” and as “Australia’s Artesian Spa Capital” because since 1895 it has tapped into the hot springs of the […]
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From Dubbo to Moree
On our final night in Dubbo we had a very nice meal at one of the Vietnamese restaurants in town. Our host was a Vietnamese woman of indetermined age who had migrated from a village near Hoi Anh on Vietnam’s central coast. She was interesting in two way. Firstly, she was not part of any […]
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Dubbo
We arrived in Dubbo yesterday and the weather is much more comfortable. The temperature over the last two days has maxed out at 15C. That’s not warm, but after the previous cold days, it feels almost tropical. The nights are stilll cold getting down to zero with a morning layer of frost. Once we left […]
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Driving to Bathurst.
Our drive to Bathurst (250 km) today was a very pleasant one that took us through undulating grazing country, hisitoric towns and through stretches of forest. We left Canberra in 6C weather and could see a dusting of snow on the Brindabella Ranges in the distance. The road followed the shore of Lake George which […]
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Cold, Cold, Canberra
I looked out the hotel window first thing this morning to see dark grey skies and that was just how the day turned out – windy and bitterly cold. The temperature only rose to 7C and the sharp wind reduced the ‘feel like’ temperature to freezing and below. For those who know Canberra, You will […]
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