Final Map of the Great Adventure

onto BrisVegas then homeward bound

Sadly we headed south towards home spending a couple of days in Noosa and then onto Brisbane.
We hadn't really spent any time in Brisbane before so it was a good oppurtuity to wander around and see the sights


We headed towards a concert to celebrate a new bridge opening - the Go Between Bridge.


We also went to see the Wallabies vs Ireland and caught up with some friends in Brisbane and Casino



Once we were over the border we knew we were safe away from the origin winning queenslanders but in colder territory. However, pulling into Glen Alan we can't complain....




Till next time

Fraser Island

We headed off in the late afternoon from Hervey Bay on the car barge across to Fraser Island. Only having an x-trail (low clearance) we knew we would be limited in where we drove on the island but still had grand plans of what we would see and do!
Fraser Island is a sand island thus all roads are sand! This makes driving quite slow and difficult at times when manoeuvring over tree stumps.



Lake Mackenzie was closed whilst we were there so we went on a tour the first day - well worth it as it saved us driving over difficult terrain and along the beach.
We saw one of the many sand blows,

howling dingoes,



Eli Creek,


The Maheno Shipwreck



and Lake Mackenzie.



We camped for 3 nights at a camp ground named 'Central Station' as it was were the loggers used to stay whilst logging the trees on Fraser Island. Most of the main campgrounds are fenced in to stop dingoes coming into tents and near children. We saw q few dingoes along the beaches but none within the rainforest.



The weather wasn't too good for us on our second and third day although we still managed to see more of the perched lakes (Lakes above sea level - entirely filled by rainwater)and get bogged in sand by some dodgy backpackers (luckily there was help around the corner from some Australians in 4WD - the backpackers drove off after they bogged us!)

Great Keppel Island & Hervey Bay

Great Keppel Island




Vanessa - the champion go Kart racer (well...until an 8 year old drove past her and told her she was a slow poke and she should put the pedal to the metal...then he zoomed off)



Crazy Shark Museum, just the place you need to go before you head to Fraser Island




Crocodile Pies

Rockhampton

A very busy country town on the Mighty Fitzroy river. Not alot to do within Rockhampton itself except look at the hundreds of cow statues about the place!

Agnes Water/1770

GO THE MIGHTY BEARS - GARY LARSON OVAL - MIRIAM VALE



Our luck of fine weather had run dry and it was time to rain! Agnes Water and the town of seventeen seventy are places on the Queensland coast you can surf and also snorkel on the outer reef – Lady Musgrave Island. This area was where Captain James Cook first anchored in Queensland and where Sir Joseph Banks took many samples of Australian flora. Although the sky was clouded over and it was drizzling we could imagine how pretty the area would be on a fine day – this is somewhere to come back to

Carnarvon Gorge

We decided to head 5 hours westward towards Carnarvon Gorge National Park. Although the temperature dropped by 5 degrees during the day and about 10 degrees at night it was well worth the drive and the stay.

Carnarvon Gorge stems from the Great Dividing Range and extends almost….km. The park is fairly visitor friendly with marked walking tracks throughout the national park.
The Gorge was beautiful – not only did we explore the gorge but also the many side gorges and Indigenous art sites but we also saw King Ferns (these ferns have not changed in structure since the dinosaurs).

It was an amazing 3 days although absolutely freezing