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Month: July 2016

Cairns aka FNQ aka the Wet Tropics

Cairns aka FNQ aka the Wet Tropics

It’s not just the tropics, it’s the wet tropics. That’s Far North Queensland for you. Central to this region is Cairns (pronounced Cans, America), a town that grew from a coastal hamlet to a small city of mid-rise beach hotels that hails as a gateway for a trip to the Great Barrier Reef and/or a supply hub for a trip into the outback territory of Cape York.  It offers a few interesting land activities but we found that most of…

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The Tropics

The Tropics

Nearly a week in Burleigh Heads on the Gold Coast, Queensland and we start to get more comfortable as we figure out where to best store things, try out the washing machine, bake an apple tart in the oven, that sort of thing. The van gets its first service and now we feel better about traveling at higher speeds. We meet up with Karin & Ferdi, our traveling companions from our Darwin trip two years earlier, as we take to…

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