Written by Kim We were up early for some casino comp breakfast before hitting the road for our 4 1/2 hour drive to Coff’s Harbour. One big highlight today is we saw a kangaroo hopping along the side of the road (no pic as camera wasn’t ready). We arranged to stop at the house of […]
Day 46 – Brisbane brewery bouncing (11/1/19)
Written by Alex Today we decided we would do a tour of a few of Brisbane’s breweries. Brisbane is home to one of Australia’s largest beer makers, XXXX (Four X, not Quatro Equis!). They run tours daily, so we signed up to go on their 11am tour. When we woke up we ordered room service […]
Day 45 – Halloween in Brisbane (10/31/19)
Written by Kim Left Noosa and grabbed some breakfast at Moto before getting on the motorway. Food was excellent – thanks Google for the good reviews. Driving was quite different today similar to the US. 4 lane motorway with lots of construction. We listened to most of the World Series on our morning drives. It […]
Day 44 – Noosa National Park (10/30/19)
Written by Alex Today was a pretty quiet day in Noosa. As we have driven south we are noticing the temperatures cooling off (it’s springtime here in Australia). Today was nice with a high around 74F/23C. We decided to walk along the beach and then up into Noosa National Park, which is located just south […]
Day 43 – Drive to Noosa (10/29/19)
Written by Kim Got on the road to head to Noosa around 9:00 after a nice breakfast to say goodbye to Hervey Bay. Our drive today was only 2 1/2 hours so we took a few of the tourist drives along the way. Before leaving Hervey Bay we stopped to take a picture of the […]
Day 42 – Fraser Island fun (10/28/19)
Written by Alex Our stop to Hervey Bay was for one basic purpose – to visit Fraser Island. Unlike Hamilton Island, which is a largely developed island loaded with things to do, Fraser Island is the opposite. Fraser Island is a 75 mile long by 15 mile wide sand island that is almost totally undeveloped […]
Day 41 – Goodbye Hamilton Island on to Fraser Island (10/27/19)
Written by Kim We caught the 8:10 ferry to leave beautiful Hamilton Island and get on the road for our longest drive of about 10 hours. We’ve been fortunate to travel many places and I think Hamilton Island has moved into my #1 favorite spot displacing the Isle of Capri which was formerly my #1. […]
Day 40 – Golfing the amazing Hamilton Island Golf Club (10/26/19)
Written by Alex It’s hard to write and try to not be too over the top with the wows, amazements and gushes – especially when I do something like play Hamilton Island Golf Club. This place lived up to every expectation. The weather was picture perfect, the skies and water all a magnificent blue, and […]
Day 39 – Hamilton Island (10/25/19)
Written by Kim Up early for breakfast at the Deck where we had dinner last night then off to catch the 8:30 ferry to Hamilton Island. The ferry took about an hour so just relaxed a bit. When we arrived we caught a shuttle to our room at Whitsunday apartments. This island is absolutely gorgeous […]
Day 38 – Driving from Cairns to Hamilton Island – not without incident
Written by Alex Note: if you haven’t yet read day 36 or 37, scroll down and catch up first! Today was our first relocation by car – a 7.5 hour drive from Cairns to Airlie Beach and then an hour ferry ride from Port of Airlie to Hamilton Island. The drive was mostly without incident […]