Sunday, December 27, 2009

Day 5 Cairns to Gosford 6th September 2009

Well this was our last leg of the journey and unfortunately have no pictures. We drove down from Coffs Harbour to Raymond Terrace where I dropped off Connie at our friends place. They were looking after some of our dogs and also our car.  (Thanks a million Clive and Dale). We had lunch there, and then drove home in the rain.


Day 4 Cairns to Gosford 5th September 2009

Left Tweed Heads early. Our destination today is Coffs Harbour, not a long day today, I want to see some sights.



Filling up at Woolgoolga


Another truck stop


Funny thing, we kept on meeting the same people on our travels. The van behind Connie have also come down from Townsville and we kept bumping into them at truck stops.
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Entering Coffs Harbour

W decided to stay here at this camp ground, it had a Dutch theme, something different.






We stayed in this so called delux cabin. On second thoughts a Motel or Hotel may have been a better choice. Too much noise at night...typical Camp Ground with lots of kids.


We spent the rest of the day playing tourist seeing all the sights.






Coffs Harbour Mariner








Day 3 Cairns to Gosford 4th September 2009

Had a great sleep at the resort. Woke up early to continue your journey down to Tweed Heads. We wanted to stay the night at Surfers Paradise but had troubles finding accomadation so we continued down to Tweed Heads were we stayed for the night. Sorry no pics of Tweed Heads nor Surfers....Too dark and too tired!


Breaky

Entering Bundaberg


Childers only 56km, and Brisbane 379km

Miles and miles of sugar cane


Stopped at Gympie for a break.




On the tablelands looking down to Maroochhydore





Going through Brisbane, very windy on this bridge, not my favorite piece of road.

Day 2 Cairns to Gosford 3rd September 2009

Stayed the night at Airlie Beach at a motel called Club Crocodile. It was very nice!

Casual dress as we did a quick tour around town.












Look I'm over here!


I'm the bald headed one


Airlee Beach a must stop for anyone travelling through here






Just had to have a coffee break. Well it did start to drizzel a bit.





Stopped here at Sarina to have lunch. Very expensive I thought. $25.00 for two hamburgers and two cans of drink.









Thought this was unusual, a tree growing out of an old trunk.



Connie checking to see if we have mobile phone coverage.




We arrived in Rockhampton at about 6.00pm. Found a motel in town after searching for some time.
It was dark so we did not get to take any photo's except for this one when we were leaving in the morning.


We drove into Galdstone. I was most impressed with the huge amount of industry here


Yet the town centre was nicely beautified. This is Connie at the information Centre.








A friendly lady at the Info Centre suggested the lighthouse cafe as one of the best places to have breakfast. She was right, they made a delicious meal for us, and great coffee too.




Beach near 1770


We stayed the night at a resort near a town called 1770. We were lucky that if was off season, so there was hardly anyone there.




The room was virtually new, a welcome change to a very long ride.


Had the whole place to ourselves. I had a swim in the heated pool.




Connie and I took a walk on the beach near were we stayed.