Our Australia trip

To all good things comes an end, so also our joint-to-the-hip trip with Berna and Jos. Our last stop together is Granite Gorge, where we camped before. In addition to showing the beautiful environment and friendly camping, we will take the bus for a service. Funny enough today the bus finally got us over the […]

I was suddenly awakened this morning when Marjo got all excited about the prospect of snorkeling the reef. We are going to cross the croc invested river today to enter the Daintree area north of the Dantree river towards Cape Tribulation. After handing over the majority of our life savings we got ferried across. First […]

From Lync haven camping, Berna Jos and I left to go on a snorkeling tour, while Axel stayed behind with the dogs and a few blogposts to write. My snorkeling tour is a present from Axels mum for my birthday, I am very much looking forward to exploring the underwater world. We only had to […]

Because we will leave the coast soon, some of us wanted to visit 4 mile beach for kite surfing. We were early at the beach and apart from someone having lessons with a 17 meter kite and a high buoyancy board there were no other kiters. I know now why. After struggling to even get […]

If you’re a regular blog reader then you should be aware that Berna, Marjo’s friend from primary school, and her friend Jos started their Australia holiday in Cairns to coincide with our trip. On 1 August they woke us up in Kuranda where we planned to meet first. We programmed the alarm and promptly slept […]

With sadness we left Bramston beach. Apart from the French teenagers who arrived late at night, made noise for ten and left early morning (I’m still wondering if it was just a bad dream) the camping was very nice. After all my kite stories it is time for some Marjo adventures. The area south of […]

The Riverside camping is not what we are made for. Busy, noisy, dogs nervous and closely on the lead all the facilities but too many people. We were on the road before 9 am, fed (world class breakfast), washed, and packed. We decided to just suck it up and drive the 170 km (it was […]

Around Port Douglas things become more difficult. The number of campings between Cairns and Port Douglas is low (anyone with some entrepreneurial inkling, this is an opportunity) and the ones close to the beach that allow dogs are non existent. The Port Douglas campings are booked out and the beaches there (in the winter) are […]

Before taking to bed we washed off the smoke from our camp fire that all evening knew how to find us. Not too happy with the lurking crocs and the history of the traveling crab fisherman we decided to take our leave from Endeavour River Escape. Because Axel wanted to see the place Cook spent […]

Endeavour River Escape is a camping just north of Cooktown, the place where Captain Cook landed his ship “The Endeavour” for repairs after he put a dent in the Great Barrier Reef. We made the 300 km trek from Mareeba to Cooktown with a few stops. The road is not very attractive and the campsites […]