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We are a young family dealing with the global financial crisis in our own special way - packing up and touring Australia in our caravan! Come follow our journey

Overdosing on sand

Welcome back! I hope you are enjoying keeping up with our journey! Thanks for visiting!Day 27 – Friday
What a beautiful spot! We spent the morning enjoying the low tide.  It goes out more than a kilometer so the boys had heaps
of space to run (crawl) around and enjoy the mud.  It’s the weirdest beach I [...]

Somewhere over the Rainbow – Beach

Day 20 – Friday
Cathryn, Wayne & the kids turned up today. They brought the wind along with them – it was
blowing a gale!
Day 21 – Saturday
Scott and Wayne tried some fishing but unfortunately nothing substantial was caught. The
Bardwells headed into Rainbow Beach and we just lazed about. Another very windy night.
Day 22 – Sunday
The guys [...]

Sun, not a drop of rain and the temperature keeps rising!

Day 9 – Monday
Another day near Canungra. We drove up to Mt Tamborine to see what the big deal is. Amazing views and scenery. We took the opportunity to see the largest glow worm cave in the southern hemisphere. When I say cave, I mean a man made concrete bunker but the glow worms were [...]

Cold night – warm days and creepy crawlies!

Day 4
We left Thora bright and early and headed towards Dangar Falls. It wasn’t far away but we gave the boys a break at the playground anyway and got a few snaps of the falls (can’t upload them as my battery is now completely dead and we haven’t got round to finding somewhere to buy [...]

And so it begins…

Day 1
We left Anna Bay around 11am and made it to Point Plomer just after 4pm. The boys were pretty good in the car – Luca was kept busy watching Ben 10 for a bit before falling asleep. Jasper slept quite a bit of the way – only grizzling towards the end. We set up [...]

Better late than never

The 2 months leading up to our departure were busy and rushed. We had started packing things away so the boxes were soon taking over and the house looked a bomb site. We were preparing the house for rental and had decided to give it a lick of paint outside and put on a new [...]