Trip to QLD

Well, we are here! Our old Ford Falcon actually made it all the way to Queensland! We hit the road in a bit of a rush as we were dodging weather and closed roads.

Day 1: Kununurra, WA to Katherine, NT
We hit the road on Wednesday after we heard the Victoria River bridge was finally open after some many weeks of being closed for flooding. This was a relatively short driving day, but we knew we were going to have a long day the next day.

We got everything in, including Rhys!

The Victoria River bridge, which was closed the day before because of flooding...they are building a higher bridge next to it.

Trial mix yah!

Day 2: Katherine, NT to Mt Isa, QLD
This was by far our longest day. We did over 1200 kms with stops for lunch and for feeding Rhys etc. We left at 7am and pulled into Mt Isa about 9pm with one hour of night driving. Luckily, we didn't see one animal with the exception of birds. The terrain from 3 Ways, NT to Mt Isa is just flat as flat can be and boring!!

Cool cloud formation on the road to Camooweal

Rhys helping Eldon hold his ginger beer after a weary day in the car

Day 3: Mt Isa to Longreach
Average day...8 hours of driving or so. By the time we got to Longreach, we had hit about a million locusts and a couple hundred cane toads and you can imagine what our car looked like! We still had a day to go so we didn't bother cleaning it off. We must have hit a few lizards of all shapes and sizes but we missed a far bit as well. I remember running directly over the top of a blue-tongue lizard but luckily they are so slow that we didn't hit it. We did hit a huge snake...it was like going over a speed bump! Someone had already killed it and it was severed, but it still stretched all the way across our lane. Would have like to get a picture of it alive.

Helping Daddy drive! He learned how to turn the wipers on!

Changing Rhys in some outback Qld town where we had some lunch. We met a one-legged magpie with whom we shared our chicken bones

Day 4: Longreach to Tannum Sands
Finally to the beach! It was so nice to pull up to our friends' place and be able to rest for a few days. They live right near the beach and we were able to go twice while we were there. We stayed with our friends Robert and Rachel Bonney and they have a little boy, Saylor, who is only 2 days apart from Rhys. It was fun to see them interact. Saylor was crawling and pulling himself up already and Rhys was only sitting up at that point, but they did play together a little. We had Sunday morning meeting with them and stayed Monday as well. Tuesday we headed down to Nambour via Noosa Heads (a neat little place on the coast which we ARE going back to).

Great pals already...Saylor and Rhys

"Look, this is how you eat sand."

Cute baby on the beach

First time in the ocean!!

Family photo at Rob and Rachel's

The next four are us at Noosa Heads on the way to Nambour

The outlook from our flat in Nambour