Tag: travel
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Far North Queensland: Cairns, Port Douglas, and the Great Barrier Reef
At the end of November, we had a fantastic visit up to Cairns and Port Douglas in Far North Queensland to end off George’s mom’s visit to Australia from England. As mentioned in my post about our time on the Gold Coast, George’s mom had the honour of being our first visitor during our year…
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36 Hours in Sydney
During our time on the Gold Coast, we wanted to take advantage of cheap flights and the time we had available to visit Sydney for a weekend, so we made it happen shortly after we moved into our place in Robina. We were lucky to find a great flight from our local Gold Coast airport,…
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Life on the Gold Coast
After completing our surf camp in Byron Bay, we settled into a loft apartment in the suburb of Robina, situated on the Gold Coast, Queensland. The decision to move arose as we realized, while residing in Brisbane, that most weekends were spent escaping the city for the coast, contending with busy weekend traffic. Despite the…
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Central Queensland Road Trip Part 3: The Whitsunday Islands, Yeppoon, and Agnes Water, plus a surf trip to Byron Bay
The final leg of the Central Queensland road trip brought us to the Whitsunday region before breaking up the long drive heading back down the coast to Brisbane. After leaving Cape Hillsborough, where we enjoyed our second morning of kangaroo and wallaby viewing on the beach, we made a stop in the town of Seaforth.…
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Central Queensland Road Trip Part 2: Explorations in Cape Hillsborough
After disembarking from the ferry from K’gari, our next destination on our Central Queensland road trip was Cape Hillsborough. This leg of the journey demanded an exhausting 8-hour drive. To preserve our sanity and avoid spending an entire day in the car, we devised a plan to split the drive over two days, with the…
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Central Queensland Road Trip Part 1: True Off-Roading on K’gari
This post has been a long time coming. We have been going non-stop since our road trip, and we began work in our new home on the Gold Coast right away, so I am just beginning to catch up now. Better late than never! We recently finished a 9-day road trip through Central Queensland, where…
Where the Paved Road Ends 