Arriving via overnight bus from Santiago, we stopped for a couple of days in Puerto Varas to have some time to ourselves between workaways (we were due to spend two weeks at a workaway in the north of the island…
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Casablanca
We had a very long day travelling from New Zealand to Chile. Our flight left Auckland at 19.30 and after a 11 hour flight arrived in Santiago at 15.00 the same day! Jessica writes: At the workaway our host was…
Whitianga and the Coromandel Peninsula
Elliot writes: We hired a car then drove to our apartment, we were spending a week there and it was next to the beach. There was lego and Netflix worked on the tv, we went kayaking and paddleboarding and there…
Grafton to Nambucca Heads
For the next part of our adventure, we considered going inland to Casino and on to connect with the A15 going south to Tamworth and then Newcastle before heading to Sydney (our Motorhome adventure destination), but after researching online, decided…
Gympie , Glasshouse Mountains, Tamborine National Park
We stopped at Eidsvold, camping overnight in the grounds of the RM Williams Bush Learning centre. Here, there was an early evening light and picture show projected onto a steel sculpture. The show, which included stories told by local people,…
Clermont, Emerald and Carnarvon Gorge
Due south of the town of Clermont, is an area known as the Gemfields, which encompasses suitably named towns such as Rubyvale, Sapphire and Emerald. Intrigued, we headed inland to investigate. On the way we passed field after field of…
Bowen, Great Barrier Reef and Eungella
From the truck stop in Townsville (just a convenient stopver in a car park) we headed along the coast and ended up at Glen Erin Farmstay near Bowen. This campsite had a campfire every evening in which they cooked and…
Magnetic Island
From our inland excursion to visit the lava tubes at Undara, we drove south-east along empty to roads to Townsville via Greenvale, a much needed fuel stop, and Charters Towers, a town that arose following gold finds in the creek…
Undara
Our first stop on the way to Undara was Innot Hot Springs. Here there is a stream on a gravel bed beside the road, and as different parts of the stream are different temperatures, you can mix them together to…
Cairns and the Atherton Tablelands
Departing Hong Kong on a 9pm flight, we arrived into Cairns shortly after sunrise. Cairns International airport is small, and it didn’t take long to get through passport control and collect our bags. The early July temperature outside was welcomingly…