Author Archives: Leigh

Day 29 – Australia Zoo

So Dad’s argument of lets hike up some massive mountain in blazing sunshine, versus go to the zoo, meet Bindi Erwin in person and wrestle a crocodile, somehow did not make it over the line. So Day 29 meant a … Continue reading

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Day 28 – Landsborough

Day 28 saw us leave the Gold Coast. We were scheduled for another day of catchups with Seena and family, but Mazzy was sick. So we had to cancel the catchup and continue moving on up. In case I haven’t … Continue reading

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Day 27 – Gold Coast and catch up with the Simon’s

Day 27 saw the weather improve significantly and a cacth-up had been organised with Chris and Sandra, two friends of Jimi and Mazzy’s who were at school with the kids at Richmond Primary for a while, before they moved away … Continue reading

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Day 26 – Gold Coast Big 4 and shed loads of rain

Day twenty-six saw us packup and leave Tallebudgera and move further up the Gold Coast. This allowed us to checkin to a Water Park themed Caravan Park with massive water slides and access to the Gold Coast theme park attractions. … Continue reading

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Day 25 – A lingering goodbye to Cabarita, and hello Tallebudgera

Day 25 meant that we were leaving Cabarita (North Star Caravan Park at Hastings), and heading off to the Gold Coast. Since this drive was not going to be much more than an hour we had time time to milk … Continue reading

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Day 24 – The Paradise that is Cabarita

Day 24 was Monday. We were still in Cabarita, Craig and Dawn were working, which left us with a day to explore Cabarita, so we did what always works best – hit the beach. We found an amazing spot, just … Continue reading

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Day 23 – The Cabarita catchup

Cabarita beach was the next of our scheduled catchups, this time with Craig and Dawn, who we hadn’t seen since before the kids were born and we were all looking forward to it. For the record, Craig was an Aussie … Continue reading

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Day 22 – Goodbye Coffs hello Skennard Heads and a little bit of Scotland

Our stay at Coffs was poetically finished by a massive downpour in the morning. After literally twenty days of fantastic weather, day twenty-two put an end to that in no uncertain terms. But it was all good. We were on … Continue reading

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Day 21 – Coffs Harbour

Coffs was a two day stopover, but since we arrived lateish on the first day, which is all part of the fun, we only realy had the one full day to do “stuff’. For that reason, we kept it local. … Continue reading

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Day 20 – Ebor, Dorrigo and warmth at last

Day twenty had a lot in store for us. Ebor, where we were currently staying is also home to some spectacular waterfalls, we will also be completing the remainder of the B78, including a tricky eighteen kilometre bendy-windy section and … Continue reading

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