Cairns to Brisbane: 2000km in 4 days!

Why? I hear you all cry…we wondered ourselves but when you are on a budget... We found a great deal whereby you relocate a camper van for a company. You only have to pay Aus$5 a day and they also give you a substantial petrol allowance. The catch? We have to drive 1705 kilometres in 4 days ( 3 nights) . This meant we were driving for most of the day. We did, however, have a lot of fun, seeing some of the more rural parts of Queensland and being greeted by the odd 'G’day mate’ and overtaken by those great Utes ( pronounced Yewt). At one point we drove for 600km, without seeing a town or village Unfortunately for all those neighbours fans from when it was popular, we didn’t see Doug Willis in his Ute-slight disappointment there. Nevermind, we are off to Melbourne tommorow, so we have more of a chance of seeing those ‘Neighbours’. Lots of photos below...a long blog post to reflect the long journey. Shame you don't have a great country music channel to accompany you like we did!


Meet Kylie...She may have been cheap, but she is all class.


Long distance Clara


First night's camp in Rollinghurst, near Townsville.


Dinner in Kylie


Loooong road on the second day.


Crop spraying the sugar cane; a frequent landscape in Queensland and one of their major exports.


Dusty landscape on the second day.


Dusk on the long road between Mackay and Rockhampton...not much else for 600km


Coffee break and rest for Kylie.




We stumbled across this outdoor museum that had recreated an Australian village from the late 19th Century.


Stephen in a jail cell from the village. I had enough of his singing with Kylie! Apparently it once housed a prisoner originally from London.


We didn't see any koalas...they are good at camouflage and don't tend to hang around yellow signs!


Rockhampton or 'Rocky' as the locals call it...still 600km from Brisbane on our third day.


Tropic of Capricorn running through Rockhampton.