A recent trip to Tropical Far Norther Queensland reminded me of what a unique and fantastic place the Atherton Tablelands is to visit with kids. Seriously, there is so much to do. For families craving some nature play or to get their city kids appreciating farm life this is the place. We’ve been visiting the…
With lush rainforest covered mountains looming up from a town spread north to south along sandy beaches Cairns is my favourite place in Australia to visit with my own family. We lived there for five years when my first children were young and I take my family back as often as is possible …
The golden, glorious state of Queensland does family vacations pretty darn well. Lazy beaches, Australian outback experiences, tropical rainforests, I could go on. There are so many reasons we keep going back. Queensland really does trump the other states in terms of family friendly accommodation which is another reason we love our Queensland vacays.…
The Australian winter is the perfect time to discover Cairns. The tropical city and gateway to the Great Barrier Reef provided respite to our family recently as cold descended on our hometown of Melbourne. We spent a glorious week staying in Cairn’s Wharf precinct and enjoying the investment local council and business have made making…
My kids love Cairns for a few reasons – they love spending time in the water every day, they love the tropical nature play and they love the wildlife interactions. Last week they found one more reason to love Cairns, the Cairns Children’s Festival. As a regional city Cairns punched above its weight in the…
In my previous post “Behind the Scenes on a Moderately Successful Travel Blog” I described how I had never taken photos before I started blogging two years ago. One of the treasures of my travel blogging journey has been that it acts as an impetus for me to visually capture the places we live and visit.…
I’ve lived in the Northern Territory where there are crocs aplenty. Once we were crossing a river into Arnhem Land in our Ford Laser (I’d watched other people do the same and it looked safe). Half way across a three meter crocodile surfaced right next to our vehicle. I remember thinking “If we stall now…
On our recent trip to Cairns’ Trinity Beach I was reminded how important local knowledge can be for discovering travel gems. It was only 9 months since we left Cairns but our good friends were already full of new ideas and places I should be checking out with the kids. Far north Queensland locals know…
We have been completely getting lucky in the accommodation department recently so I wanted to share with you our most recent success. I visited beautiful Trinity Beach in far north Queensland in the September school holidays sans husband with my three little kids. I know, I know, coco bananas me to think that a holiday…
I had a “winter wig out”. It was nine months post relocation south to cooler climes in Melbourne and I was deep in a winter funk. The fact that I had spent the entire winter caring for germy children, and being myself a host to a million germs didn’t help. The September school holidays were…