Queensland.com is the official travel site for Tourism and Events in Queensland. I was asked to write a blog post about taking kids up to the tip of Cape York and feature a few of our photographs. Click here to go to the blog post.
Flossing is (apparently) the trendy dance that youngster do these days. Kinda Gangnam Style but a whole lot more subdued. Jonah performed for Karina’s camera all across the country…..
By Karina On the western edge of Cape York Peninsula, about halfway up and level with Weipa to the East, lies Kutini-Payamu, or Iron Range National Park. It’s near to the indigenous community of Lockhart River and the small coastal hamlet of Portland Roads. It’s a special place and used to be connected to New Guinea…Continue Reading “Iron Range National Park – Cape York”
On the Eastern side of the Cape York Peninsula lies Somerset, and a series of isolated windswept beaches. You can drive along them, and between them, on what’s called The 5 Beaches Loop Track. It was a Friday when we decide to take a trip out in that direction. We drove through Somerset, past Fly…Continue Reading “5 Beach’s Loop Track, Cape York”
By Karina. I guess we all had our own ideas about what the actual tip of Australian might look like: Ahvie pictured grassy hills leading down to a croc-infested sandy beach; Jonah pictured a rocky point leading off to nothing but deep ocean as far as you could see; I expected it to be barren…Continue Reading “The Tip, Cape York”
Cape York had been on our bucket list for over 10 years. When our friends The Friends (Tom, Jacki, Oliver & Flethcer) decided to join us for this part of our trip, it was made all the more awesome. Here is a snippet of the first part of our adventure, on the way up to…Continue Reading “On the way to Cape York”
By Karina. It was a Saturday afternoon when we rolled into Winton. The sun was hot; the earth was cracked; the shadows were long; the water smelled of sulphur and the pub was full by 5pm. We set up on our small patch of grass out the back of the Pelican Fuel stop. We were…Continue Reading “Dinosaur Trail: Winton to Richmond.”
The first overnight stop that truly felt like freedom: heading west along the road to Winton. Sundown, an unmarked track after long empty roads, vast monotonous plains and a free camp called Dingo Creek Downs. Big skies, road trains, real trains and finally a sleepy desert town with character and intrigue…….
By Karina. We were heading westward. Into the dust and the wide open spaces. If it weren’t for Jonah and his dinosaur interest we probably would have kept going north, up the coast, but Winton has been on his bucket list for 25 years, apparently, so there we were, heading west. But before the dinosaurs…Continue Reading “Sapphires in the rough.”
It was a bright morning when we were finally ready to roll out of our driveway. It just happened to be June 1st and the first day of winter, which felt a bit ominous, and I wanted to make a whole range of Game of Thrones jokes, but seeing “winter is coming” was already redundant,…Continue Reading “Chapter 1: Sunshine Coast to Capricorn Caves”