Today we had the return 600 odd kilometer journey back to the Sunshine Coast and home. We packed the car with the majority of our luggage last night so only had a small bag to go this morning. After...
Lazy Day – 5th April
Today is our last day of this break before we head home tomorrow. It has been raining most of the day, so our plan of having a lazy day of food,TV, reading and relaxing. After a sleep in and a slow...
Rockhampton Zoo – 4th April
Awoke today to another gloomy day 🙁 We thought we would go to into Rockhampton and have a look along the River Precinct and look at the heritage buildings, have lunch somewhere and go to the Zoo in...
A Drizzly Day – 3rd April
We awoke to find a grey and drizzly day looming. The weather reports had shown we were in for a wet Easter, so we felt lucky to have dodged rain for the last couple of days.After breakfast in the...
Good Friday – 2nd April
Whenever we travel over the Easter break, we make sure we have self catered for Good Friday knowing that not much is open. We had a nice sleep in and had a leisurely start to the day. The shower in...
Easter 2021 – Yeppoon
Any travel through this CoVid time is a challenge, but we had decided that we did need a break but we would need to stay within Queensland. We chose Rockhampton as it had been a long time since...
Mantra Day 7: 12th January
Today we are heading home. As with any holiday, our time away has been lovely, but it is always nice to get home. We had gone to bed early last night and we woke up early at 5:30am. At least we are...
Mantra Day 6: 11th January.
A quiet start before we ambled across to the Qld Museum. The Museum does not open until 9:30 so we had plenty of time. I started organising our things ready to pack tomorrow morning. I had done a...
Mantra Day 5: 10th January.
This was a fun day of Buses, Boats and Trains We had been told to do a day trip out to the Moreton Bay Islands - Russell, Lamb, Macleay and Karragarra. All these islands sit in the Moreton Bay and...
Mantra Day 4: 9th January
We planned a day in the city today to do some sightseeing and then later in day meet our daughter for an early dinner. We decided on a Brisbane City Hall visit and perhaps a trip up the clock...
Mantra Day 3: 8th January
We had another lighter breakfast today and then we hopped on a bus over to the city and found the bus to travel to "The Summit" at the Mount Coot-tha Lookout. Neither of us had been up Mount...
Mantra Day 2: 7th January
We planned on a lighter breakfast this morning as one of our Christmas gifts from our "down south family" was a voucher for the seafood platter at a restaurant in SouthBank - YellowFin. We have been...
Mantra Southbank- 7 Nights 5th to 12th of January 2020 Day 1 -6th Jan
This holiday is a continuation of our Christmas Roadtrip. You can read that trip here 🙂 We arrived and checked in yesterday and had a nice night relaxing., while we did a load of washing and dried...
Last day 🙁 Heading home
Our last day today.We had booked the 10:00am ferry back to River Heads. We packed our bags and had breakfast then put our bags in the luggage room ready to go on the luggage truck for the ferry. We...
Beauty Spots 4WD Tour
Today we are off on our 4WD adventure with a full day tour called the Beauty Spots tour. We went to the breakfast buffet for an early breakfast, as we have to meet the 4WD coach at 7:50 in...
A Quiet Lazy Day
With absolutely NOTHING planned today we had a super lazy day just hanging about the resort. Breakfast, a swim, a nap, lunch, another dip in the pool, and another nap was about the extent of the day...
Kingfisher Bay – Fraser Island – Jan 2015
A long weekend away.... We are off early this morning heading to Hervey Bay to catch a 9:00 ferry to Fraser Island for a long weekend at the Kingfisher Bay...
Checkout and Home 🙁
Our weekend away has sadly come to an end :(. We have packed up and just enjoying one last cuppa before we head back north. We are stopping off at the family for a Fathers Day lunch and then back to...
Things To Do
Arising from a great nights sleep, we made breakfast and headed out to look at the surrounding national park. Following the visitors guide, we visited a number of lovely lookouts and waterfalls We...
Mouse House – Springbrook September 2014
We are off on a much needed break for the weekend. Our lovely friends John and Lois gave us two nights at the Mouses House Rainforest Retreat as a birthday gift. We left home just before...
Christmas “Staycation” 2008
We decided that as we live in a pretty special part of the country, we would stay on the coast for Christmas and spend some time looking around Noosa. We chose to do the usual "touristy" things - a...
Stanthorpe – Qld
As you may have guessed from out mid-winter Tasmania trip, we both really enjoy cooler climates.The closest we can get to "cold" is the Queensland town of Stanthorpe in the Granite Belt region. We...
Easter in Mackay 2007
For the Easter break in 2007 we chose to visit Mackay. We flew from Brisbane to Mackay - a short 90minute flight, then hired a car for the 4 days. We had found Ocean Resort Village , a nice little...
Maroochy Regional Bushland Botanic Garden
A trip to the Botanic Gardens made for a pleasant day out. Read more about the gardens here