Amazing Australia
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Those of you who know me may be aware that later on this year, my husband and I are taking 3 months with our children to see more of this great country of ours. Our plans at this stage will be to spend around a month of that time in the Northern half of Queensland, a month in the southern half of Queensland and a month in various parts of New South Wales (broken into the first part and the last part of our trip).
Wanting to make the best use of our time, I’ve been busy doing some research into places we might like to visit. One thing I have discovered as part of this research is that the more you research, the more things you find to do. It’s like there is an infinite number of possibilities when it comes to interesting things to see and do in Australia.
Reading travel brochures and browsing websites, I am amazed by how diverse and beautiful this wonderful country of ours is.
I’m slowly coming to a couple of conclusions in regard to our trip:
1. We’re NOT going to have time to see EVERYTHING.
There is just so much we could spend our time seeing and I can see us running ourselves ragged trying to see it all.
2. It’s not going to really matter where we spend our time.
Where we are heading, I’m not sure there is any place we WOULDN’T want to see. Such is the beauty of this nation.
One of the things I’m really enjoying about planning this trip is how much my appreciation for this beautiful nation of ours has grown. That and my knowledge and awareness of various places has grown greatly. I’m really looking forward to the improvement in my Geography skills once we’ve taken this trip (it never was one of my better subjects – but there’s nothing like actually visiting a place to entrench it firmly in one’s mind).
Now I’d like to pick your brains. I’m interested in hearing of your favourite places in New South Wales and Queensland. Is there any particular places you LOVE and think we shouldn’t miss? It would be awful to get back and have someone say “did you see ……” and for us not to have even known about it.
It’s all beautiful! We took 5 years to travel around Australia, and only stopped due to ill health. Just take it day by day. Remember, the slower you travel, the less fuel you use – try to stay a week in a place and do day trips from that as a base.
Ipswitch isn’t beautiful, I would avoid that unless you want to catch up with Pauline.
Are you driving and staying in B&B’s, taking a tent/caravan or going hotels all the way?
Noosa is one of my favourite places, beach, rainforest, estuary, relaxed hippy town.
Coolum is also very nice, bit quieter too.
Up Cairns way try and check out Cape Tribulation, Port Douglas, maybe a day trip on the ferry to Green Island to snorkel with turtles etc.
I went to Port Douglas in January and had a fantastic time. The three main attractions are Mosman Gorge, the Daintree (Cape Tribulation) and going for a day trip to the outer reef. There were so many tropical fish and even saw two reef sharks!
Enjoy your trip!
Jan – thank you. My husband does tend to drive slower with the caravan on – much to my frustration!!! LOL. It’ll be nice once we get to areas we haven’t been before though – and we can enjoy taking in the different scenery. I’m getting very excited now!!!
Moses – thank you so much for your suggestions. We have a caravan we will be towing. Our “home away from home”.
Guy – gosh, I hope you didn’t see those sharks up too close! Thanks for your suggestions.