Road Trip!

Pie and I have commenced our road from Sydney to Cairns. This has been good fun so far, with some fantastic views of coasts, seas, lakes and forests. We are now in Brisbane, where we are basing ourselves for a few days. Driving through the less well-inhabited areas of New South Wales and Queensland has meant we have seen even more one-horse towns than we saw in Western Australia.

Our stops so far have been:

Monday - lunch in Glenbrook; afternoon and evening in Katoomba in the Blue Mountains. We took some good walks around the cliffs at Katoomba, with some fantastic views over the mountains, particularly of the Three Sisters rocks.

Tuesday - lunch in Windsor; evening in Forster. We stopped off at the Wyndham Estate winery on our way through the Hunter Valley to do some more wine tasting. Forster itself didn’t have a lot to do, but we met another English guy there and did our good deed by giving him a lift to Port Macqaurie.

Wednesday - lunch in Port Macquarie; night in Coffs Harbour. Port Macquarie was a pleasant town, with far more to do than Forster. Coffs was a fairly large town with a few things to do. Including the Big Banana!

Thursday - breakfast in Grafton; lunch in Byron Bay; evening in Brisbane. We have rushed the first part of our journey to get to Brisbane in time for the one-day international cricket at the Gabba. We will be visiting the Gold Coast on Sunday.