50km west of Sydney lies the Blue Mountains National Park. We arrived quite late so had no idea of our surroundings, nor could we see any blue mountains! We stayed at a free campsite called Glen Park Reserve near Blackheath, down the wonderfully named Megalong Valley road. We didn’t see how nice it was until…
Next we headed down to Hervey Bay, stopping on the way to pick up a hitchhiker, Glen, who was hitching his way down the east coast. He was an interesting chap to say the least, and told us he hadn’t been to Hervey Bay since the second week of November 2009. When we commented on…
The next morning we left our free campsite and drove 120km south to Airlie Beach. We’d heard it was beautiful there, and we wanted to do a trip to the Whitsunday Islands so we booked a couple of nights at the Seabreeze campsite. We’d been living in Bruce for nearly two weeks and this was…
After an early morning start from Rifle Creek we headed back down south to Cairns. It felt a little odd that we’d been in Bruce for six days already but not even made it a mile south from where we’d collected him towards our destination of Sydney. We weren’t too bothered though, as we knew…
The next leg of our journey was a road trip down the east coast of Australia, from Cooktown to Sydney. It’s easy to forget how utterly huge Australia is – this is the equivalent of driving from Scotland to Italy! We couldn’t wait though, and for this epic mission we would need a campervan worthy…
After five fantastic months exploring SE Asia and Indonesia we were moving on to a new continent – Australia, where we would drive down the east coast in a campervan. But first we had a few nights in Darwin in the Northern Territory. Our flight had been pushed back to 1am so we had a long evening…
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