Friday 6th October - CampMan and CampWoMan
Well, we have a campervan, for better or worse we have the campervan that will take us to Brisbane... hopefully. Not entirely convinced it is the right decision but one I feel you have to do in life to fully experience travelling.
The van, like all wicked campers, is painted and we have '9 times' and for those of you who are big Aussie V8 racing fans, you know who you are all possible 1 of all the people I know, '9 times' is the nick name for Peter 'perfect' Brock or Brockie as people have called him. There is a HUGE race in Australia called the mountain at a spot where I forget its name, but it is a huge event where there is a huge rivalry between the Fords and the Holdens over 1000km, so all weekend is set off for it. And it is in a couple of days time too. We have emblazened down the side of the bus 'Long live Brocky' and the bus is painted in his cars colours. Now, the rest of the world will have been devastated by the passing of Steve Irwin, a huge loss to the world without doubt, but the Australians have had a double blow as 'Brocky', also a national legend, passed away in a car accident a couple of days later. This is also a great loss. But it is also unfortunate that we have 'Long live Brocky' written down the side of our van, some Aussies are questioning it, quite regularly in fact, everywhere we stop, especialy in gas stations. Though I'd hate to have the Steve Irwin painted wicked camper at the moment.
We headed north from Cairns, up into the tropics. The first stop was at Port Douglas, where we stayed in a really nice site and the town was much newer and less touristy than Cairns. A real place to work and stay, though there was still a strong dive/fish/snorkel the barrier reef business there. There was one cool villa that we walked past, have a look: - www.villaportdouglas.com.au
The van is pretty cramped but we did alright, we cooked our own stuff too on the gas stove. Totally self sufficient. The bed is well hard though, plus it rained pretty hard too that night which is a bit noisy. Whinge whinge whinge.
The next day we burned it up to Cape Tribulation, even having to cross a ferry to get there too, we stayed at a place called Lync haven and after checking in legged it up to the Cape. Gorgeous really.
[pics of the cape ??? damn internet cafes!!!]
Then back to the site for early bed and flies for dinner. The site did have 3 enclosed kangaroos though that you could go in and pet, our first of the trip. We also had a better nights sleep amongst the totally tropical wildlife, glad to have the sturdy bus at times...
Laters
Pricey
The van, like all wicked campers, is painted and we have '9 times' and for those of you who are big Aussie V8 racing fans, you know who you are all possible 1 of all the people I know, '9 times' is the nick name for Peter 'perfect' Brock or Brockie as people have called him. There is a HUGE race in Australia called the mountain at a spot where I forget its name, but it is a huge event where there is a huge rivalry between the Fords and the Holdens over 1000km, so all weekend is set off for it. And it is in a couple of days time too. We have emblazened down the side of the bus 'Long live Brocky' and the bus is painted in his cars colours. Now, the rest of the world will have been devastated by the passing of Steve Irwin, a huge loss to the world without doubt, but the Australians have had a double blow as 'Brocky', also a national legend, passed away in a car accident a couple of days later. This is also a great loss. But it is also unfortunate that we have 'Long live Brocky' written down the side of our van, some Aussies are questioning it, quite regularly in fact, everywhere we stop, especialy in gas stations. Though I'd hate to have the Steve Irwin painted wicked camper at the moment.
We headed north from Cairns, up into the tropics. The first stop was at Port Douglas, where we stayed in a really nice site and the town was much newer and less touristy than Cairns. A real place to work and stay, though there was still a strong dive/fish/snorkel the barrier reef business there. There was one cool villa that we walked past, have a look: - www.villaportdouglas.com.au
The van is pretty cramped but we did alright, we cooked our own stuff too on the gas stove. Totally self sufficient. The bed is well hard though, plus it rained pretty hard too that night which is a bit noisy. Whinge whinge whinge.
The next day we burned it up to Cape Tribulation, even having to cross a ferry to get there too, we stayed at a place called Lync haven and after checking in legged it up to the Cape. Gorgeous really.
[pics of the cape ??? damn internet cafes!!!]
Then back to the site for early bed and flies for dinner. The site did have 3 enclosed kangaroos though that you could go in and pet, our first of the trip. We also had a better nights sleep amongst the totally tropical wildlife, glad to have the sturdy bus at times...
Laters
Pricey
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