Well … today started out full of promise …
Up with the sun, as per usual.
Archive for category Caravanning
Day 93 – Carmila Beach
Oct 9
Day 92 – Macona Inlet
Oct 8
Waking up in Chance Bay to a fine, crisp morning soon had us rearing to go. Brekky was toasted sandwiches, which filled us all up nicely.
The walk from Chance Bay to Whitehaven Beach was about 3.6km each way, but didn’t feel that long. We had it done in under an hour.
Day 91 – Chance Bay
Oct 7
After a very quiet night, we again woke with the sun. Well, Hannah woke with the sun. All the rest of us woke via Hannah.
By 6am some of our neighbours had already left and we thought that we should too. So after a quick brekky of raisin toast we hauled anchor and headed up towards Hayman Island.
Not long after rounding the point and heading North, the weather (and 3 seasick crew) made the decision to head South for Whitehaven beach an easy one. There were 2M seas and they were coming across the bow, so she was rocking side to side. Altogether unpleasant.
Along the way we made a short stop in Cid Harbour. The seas in that direction were the same height but it was fore/aft and easier to tolerate. There was a beach there that I dropped Kel & Hannah off at, to have a taste of dry land. Blake and I rambled off to find a geocache on a small rock island nearby (coincidentally 🙂 ). Also my first terrain 5 cache and it was well worthy of that.
This geocache was a bit of a tough ask really. The cache was right on the top of the island and it was completely overgrown. Even though the island is only about 75m across it took ages to scramble to the top.
Day 90 – Nara Inlet
Oct 6
After an uneventful night on the boat we woke with the sun. Lack of curtains will do that …
Hannah's view from the pillow this morning
Around 8am we had Bob and his faithful dog Barnaby rock up to show us the ropes.
Day 89 – Airlie Beach
Oct 5
Up at the leisurely time of 9am, we had bacon and egg sangas for breakfast. It was then time to have a look around Airlie Beach and Shute Harbour. It didn’t take much driving before we realised that we absolutely hated the place 😉
2 harbours, lovely houses, tons of useful shops, great atmosphere all round really. Pity it’s so far from home.
Shame we’ve got to leave it tomorrow …
Day 88 – Airlie Beach
Oct 4
Today was supposed to be a short trip down to Airlie Beach for a couple of nights, but it turned out to be a lot longer than expected … lucky we’d planned on a short day!
We packed up the van by 8am and said ‘bye bye house’. We had to take the keys back to the agent before skipping town, that was the first detour. Precious little parking area near the agents office meant that there was a bit of a walk to return the key.
No big deal … back on the road for about 5 minutes and there’s a huge patch of slow on the road out of town due to roadworks. No big deal, at least we were moving. … and then we weren’t.
Day 87 – Magnetic Island
Oct 3
We caught the ferry across to Magnetic Island today as part of our continuing quest to find the best beach.
The weather was being kind to us and the trip across was met with barely a ripple. Yet another horrible day up here … raining, pouring, windy … What? You don’t believe me?
Day 86 – Townsville
Oct 2
We had a bit of a lazy old sleep in at Mission Beach. Kel & Blake wandered over to the Sunday market across the road and came back with the usual stuff. Nothing too spectacular…
Hannah was up early and having a play with Risa. They were both in the pool before breakfast. You’d think she’d work up an appetite, but she still ate breakfast like a mouse.
Day 85 – Mission Beach
Oct 1
Wow, what a game!
I couldn’t bring myself to watch it until after half-time, I just listened to the radio version instead. Part of the reason for that was that I couldn’t get the game on the TV in the van, despite the TV tower only being a few km away.
After half-time I went over to the camp kitchen to watch it on the screen there, only to discover that it was a delayed broadcast and I was better off listening to it anyway!
What better way to celebrate a hard fought grand final win than a walk along Mission Beach?
Day 84 – Cape Tribulation
Sep 30
The day started out, for me, bright and early with a walk around the rainforest trying to catch a photo of the Cassowary we keep hearing. No luck though.
Toyota that didn’t make it