A Galaxy of Thoughts and Creativity
The places we’ve been
Travelling around Australia, Dean and I had the most amazing time, the most incredible adventure and it was, without question, the most extraordinarily exceptional, astonishingly astounding, miraculously marvellous, and wondrously … Continue reading The Best of The Best
The surf provided Dean with entertainment, the beach provided me with a great place to walk, the surf club provided us with a great place to eat, the warmth we … Continue reading Goodbye Dicky Beach
When Dean and I had been on the road for a total of 365 days, I shared the Top Ten Moments we’d experienced so far. At the time we were … Continue reading Our (Overdue) WA Top Ten
Finally Back to Where It All Began Five hundred and seventy days ago, on October 31, 2014, a little after 12 pm, Dean and I arrived at the Dicky Beach … Continue reading Closing the Loop
Wasting Time at Alexandra Headlands It feels as though we’ve not done anything since driving a little further south more than a week ago, but that’s not really the case. … Continue reading Sunshine Coast – Part 2
Back in The Great South East! However, we’re not home yet. South East Queensland (or as those who live here like to call it The Great South East), is an … Continue reading Sunshine Coast – Part 1
And No Whale Watching! Between April and November each year, both the western and eastern coastlines of Australia come alive with the spectacular, and often very acrobatic, displays of Humpback … Continue reading Hervey Bay
The Town The first Europeans in the area were timber-getters (lumberjacks) and farmers who arrived in 1867. Timber supplies soon ran short and a new industry (corn production) was established. … Continue reading Bundaberg
Queensland’s Discovery Coast lies between the cities of Gladstone and Bundaberg, only 5½ hours drive north of Brisbane, the state capital, and the place we’ve called ‘home’ for the last … Continue reading Agnes Water and 1770
Thoughts on Location No 101 Yeppoon, Fitzroy Region, Queensland We didn’t intend to stay in Yeppoon as long as we did but, as often happens, the weather dictated what we … Continue reading Yeppoon
Sailing the Whitsundays The Whitsunday Islands, or simply The Whitsundays as it’s more commonly known, is a group of 74 islands protected by the World Heritage Listed Great Barrier Reef. … Continue reading A Day on the Water
Thoughts on Where We’ve Been Up on the range, just a short drive from the coast, lies the Atherton Tablelands (The Tablelands). Still part of the World Heritage Listed Wet … Continue reading Enjoying The Tablelands
Thoughts on Location No 96 Cooktown, Far North Queensland After leaving the Daintree National Park, we headed inland, over the Great Dividing Range, and (eventually) north along Mulligan Highway to … Continue reading As Far North as Possible
Daintree National Park Part of the World Heritage Listed Wet Tropics of Queensland (Wet Tropics). The Wet Tropics rainforests contain an almost complete record of the major stages in the … Continue reading Into the Jungle
Great regional rivalry over who’s the biggest, best, and brightest in North Queensland exists between Townsville and Cairns. Who is the capital of North Queensland? Who attracts the greater number … Continue reading Like a Guilty Pleasure
What a Fantastic Sunrise Standing on the Cardwell beachfront, not another soul in sight, I watched my first sunrise on Australia’s east coast for quite some time, and what a … Continue reading A Sunrise and A Waterfall
Farewell to Family and Friends We rolled out of Townsville this morning and despite being closer to Brisbane than we’ve been in a very long time, we pointed the car … Continue reading Townsville – Part 2
Our Home Away From Home Although it hasn’t been ‘home’ since Dean and I moved to Brisbane 23 years ago, having lived in Townsville for more than 26 years, it … Continue reading Townsville – Part 1
Far From Home, But at Least on Home Soil Leaving Kakadu behind, we headed south stopping at Mataranka to check out Rainbow Springs Thermal Pool at Mataranka Homestead. I’m sure … Continue reading Hello QLD
And Hooroo Kakadu With the immanent threat of a monsoonal trough developing and heralding some much-needed heavy rain to end the (relatively dry) wet season, we decided it was time … Continue reading Goodbye NT
Our few days in the Northern Territory’s Darwin Region Location No 85 – Batchelor We spent two nights at the Batchelor Holiday Park, just a short drive from Litchfield National … Continue reading Where We’ve Been Lately
The Northern Territory Parks and Wildlife Commission boast that: Our Parks and Reserves are the Jewel in the Territory’s Crown We could easily have missed this gem and are so … Continue reading Litchfield National Park
Looking back, it’s difficult to believe we entered Western Australia in early November (2015). Fourteen stops, a little over 16 weeks, and almost 7,000 kilometres later (4,349.1 miles) Dean and … Continue reading Goodbye WA
Thoughts on Location No 83 Kununurra, (East) Kimberley, Western Australia Located at the eastern extremity of the Kimberley Region, and approximately 43 kilometres (26 miles) from the border with the … Continue reading Kununurra
