Cairns Woree, Australia Woree, Australia 23/07/2016 The next five weeks we will be staying at the Coconut Grove Caravan Park, which is a short drive, decent ride and long walk from Cairns esplanade. Whilst we are here we need to get Frank ready for the Cape York trip, there is some mechanical work to be […]

Harry & Alisons Milla Milla, Australia Milla Milla, Australia 20/07/2016 Wow, we had no idea what being a Dairy Farmer entails. We stayed the night with Harry & Al, and Zac & Keeley, on their Dairy Farm. Col helped with afternoon & Morning milking an Rach helped Al teach the new born calf to drink […]

Undara Lava Tubes Mount Surprise, Australia Mount Surprise, Australia 18/07/2016

Cumberland historic chimney Georgetown, Australia Georgetown, Australia 17/07/2016 Today is the day that Sonia graduates Uni, we would have loved to have been there, but distance is a bit of an issue. With technology though it was streamed live on the internet. We pulled over in Normantan, and watched the graduation, technology these days hey. […]

Karumba Karumba, Australia Karumba, Australia 13/07/2016 The weather has turned cold, we were fortunate enough to stumble on a brand new caravan park, that was in its first week or operation. It is right beside the pub, in fact its owned and run by the pub, it use to be their car park. We got […]

Lawnhill Lawn Hill, Australia Lawn Hill, Australia 11/07/2016 Because Frank had a hole in the radiator, we needed to bring MIA all the way out to Lawn Hill, the road from Gregory Downs to here was not as bad yesterday, but still pretty bad. There was however light at the end of the tunnel, this […]

Gregory downs Gregory, Australia Gregory, Australia 10/07/2016 Last night we had a choice to make, we could either come along Thortonia Yelvetoft Road which leads into Gregory Downs Camooweal road which is an unsealed road that may or may not be OK, this way is about 300kms to Lawn Hill, or go via Mt Isa, […]

Turn off to Gregory downs Camooweal, Australia Camooweal, Australia 09/07/2016 Yesterday was Rachels longest drive in Mia, driving approx 200kms non stop from three ways to the Barkly Hometsead.    

Attack creek rest stop Tablelands, Australia Tablelands, Australia 08/07/2016 We stopped for the night in a little free camp rest area on the Stuart Highway about 1 hour before the 3 ways turn off.

Bitter Springs Mataranka, Australia 07/07/2016 Last night we stayed in a free camp on the side of the highway in Elsey, about 10 minutes before bitter springs. This worked out perfectly, we got here so early in the morning that there was only a couple of people in the water, but definitely no crowds. The […]