Day 9 – canberra

Today is our last full day in Canberra – tomorrow we are heading for Diamond Waters just south of Port Macquarie. We’ll be staying there for 2 nights before the final leg home. We visited mum and dad again today to pick up a couple of bits and pieces that won’t fit into their new […]

day 6, 7 and 8 canberra

It has been a busy few days here in Canberra – and when I’ve had some down time I have been a bit too tired to do my blog. On Tuesday (Day 6) we drove down to Braidwood a little town about half way between Canberra and Batemans Bay on the NSW south coast. We […]

Day 4 and 5 – canberra

Sunday was our final leg of the Brisbane to Canberra drive, and was the shortest leg. The roads have been amazingly quiet other than the last 100km when we came into Sydney, there haven’t even been too many trucks on the road either – I’m not sure if this is because of COVID or because […]

Day 3 – Sydney

We still seem to have our body clocks set to work mode – we were both awake by 4:30 this morning. Stu went for a run to discover that the Botanic Gardens are closed until later in the morning so he ran around the park and still didn’t get close to the Opera House. We […]

Canberra trip day 1 and 2

What a weird start to a holiday – I got a bad case of food poisoning two days before we left so I didn’t get much packing done until the Thursday morning before we left. The other thing that made it a weird start is that Brisbane and the north coast of NSW was hit […]

day 7, 8 and 9 – yeppoon to hervey bay (point vernon)

It has been a little difficult to do the blog the last couple of days – day 7 I didn’t have a lot to add and yesterday poured rain all day and I was tired from the drive down from Yeppoon. Day 7: We drove out to Byfield a little town north of Yeppoon that […]

day 6 – great keppel island

Today started off pretty miserably. We had pretty big storms most of the night last night and it was still raining when we got up. Stu managed to go for a run while it wasn’t raining but it was raining again by the time we were ready to head for the ferry. It started to […]

road trip day 5 – yeppoon

We had a pretty big thunder storm in the early hours of the morning which unfortunately hasn’t boded well for the rest of the day. Today was going to be an explore the local area type day so as soon as the weather eased we jumped in the car to drive south. We headed down […]

Road Trip Day 4 – Moore Park Beach to Yeppoon

Today was the final push up to Yeppoon. I’ve chosen to take us via the town of Seventeen Seventy or 1770 depending on the road sign you are going past. What I didn’t realise was that this was a long way off the beaten path in terms of driving to Yeppoon from Bundaberg. The first […]

road trip day 3 – bundaberg

We are staying 2 nights at the Moore Park Beach Motel so we could get a day to explore the Bundaberg region. Moore Park Beach is a really quaint little seaside village which is really spread out. You feel like there are only a few people around you. The motel is the old style roadside […]