Having our plans to travel back to Ningaloo Reef in Western Australia this year thwarted by COVID, we decided to head north and explore Queensland. Our first stop was Burnett Heads, just outside Bundaberg. The highlight was a visit to Lady Elliot Island.
It’s wonderful to be surrounded by lush green rainforest, white sand, aqua blue water and the Great Barrier Reef. Loving Port Douglas.
Celebrating my 60th Birthday swimming with Whale Sharks on the Ningaloo Reef with friends and family was amazing. Best 60th EVER!
As promised in our Coral Bay post, the photos from Pete the professional underwater photographer have arrived.
We can see why so many people head to Coral Bay for holidays, it’s beautiful.
So here we are, on the road again. I have to keep pinching myself that it’s actually happening. For those of you new to our blog, it was 2013 when we decided to travel around Australia in a caravan.
Two years of preparation later (first had to buy a van having never owned one before) we headed up the east coast along the ‘great Aussie long paddock’ on Boxing Day 2015.
In Port Douglas, far North Queensland, my retina decided to detach itself for no good reason at all. Thus our trip was abandoned.
18 months and 6 lots of eye surgery later (I now have two extremely well attached retinas) and we were ready to complete the circumnavigation after Christmas 2016. This time toward the west coast. We bought a new car, a Ranger, for better towing, and were ready to head off after Christmas 2016. Christmas Eve our house burnt down.
Two years and a lot of stress and heart ache later our house is complete and we are on the road again.
We could not have got here with out our amazing support team (family, friends and the best neighbours in the world ). Thank you all for helping us get back on our feet and back on the road, we are so lucky to have you in our lives.
