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Jourama Falls to Mareeba, still North Queensland

Jourama Falls to Mareeba, still North Queensland

Travelled to Mareeba near Cairns, to holiday with a Japanese friend. View Larger Map Stayed two nights at Granite Gorge national park. Nice open camp grounds and with an un-powered site you can basically camp anywhere you like. Hot showers and other amenities, for $12 a night per person. Now staying at Cairns in the Palm Royale Cairns (resort/apartments) for a few nights. Getting to know the surrounding islands and [...]

20 June, 2010 1 comment Read More
NQ – North Queensland camping near Townsville

NQ – North Queensland camping near Townsville

No more massive drives… Travelled from Townsville to Jourama Falls camp this morning. Large grounds to drive in and camp on a large site. We have 3 vans and 2 tents in this convoy and we were easily able to find a private spot. Cold shower and toilets, and lots of bush turkeys. This place is about 5km from the Bruce Hwy and then about 25km south of Ingham. As [...]

19 June, 2010 3 comments Read More
The last massive drive

The last massive drive

Nanango to Airlie Beach QLD. Massive trip. On Friday 11 June I drove pretty much spot on 1000km and finally arrived in Airlie Beach. It was late at night, about 10:30PM and the boys met me and we headed to the camp spot at Funnel Bay a few minutes outside of Airlie. View Larger Map The camp spot is a piece of prime land at Airlie Beach which is for [...]

14 June, 2010 0 comments Read More
Healthiest cheap meal I know…

Healthiest cheap meal I know…

Two superfoods – brocolli and salmon, coupled with one of the healthiest foods from the base food group – brown rice, makes a very cheap and extremely healthy meal. I have lived with a good friend of mine for a few years, who 4/7 nights a week would eat brocolli/tuna/pasta as it was cheap (and from his nutrition education as a chef) and very nutritious. So I made my own [...]

28 March, 2010 0 comments Read More