About 10 months ago (Sept 2020) we bought a cub camper frontier after a lot of research and a realisation that our travelling might be curtailed to the shores of Australia. We had learnt from our previous trip what we needed and this certainly fitted the bill. While we didn’t know at the time when or whether we would ever do a huge trip things obviously changed for us quite dramatically when I got diagnosed with Cryptococcal Meningitis. Having been told by the doctors that I was lucky to be alive and to go out and live life we decided to just go for it. I am going to have to take some pretty large amounts of drugs for a year or two so may as well see some of Australia while I am recovering!!
For the last month or so we have been packing up all our possessions and getting the house ready for our tenants. We thought we had left ourselves loads of time but the last week seems to have been hectic as we crossed items off our list which at one stage I am sure was just growing not shrinking!! One of our last jobs was to have our 2nd Pfizer COVID vaccine and then the next day we were off.
It was pretty momentous leaving our house but I think we had both been so busy we couldn’t really appreciate the fact that the journey was beginning and we were actually doing it. Another momentous occasion was the fact that I was the one driving as I had managed to get a restricted driving license although my inexperience in driving the trailer meant that I had to swap halfway with Sarah so she could park us up at the campsite.
So now we are currently camped up just north of home and about 20km west of Hervey Bay in a large paddock next to a dam pinching ourselves that we are actually doing this. The campsite is huge and while all the powered sites sit on top of each other there a few acres of field where unpowered campers can sit and enjoy the peace and quiet.
Nearby Hervey Bay itself seems to us like the Sunshine Coast was back when we first moved there and when we have visited here before we weren’t exactly enamoured by the place but this visit it seems really nice. We haven’t done a lot during our visit other than a couple of walks in the sunshine looking out over at Fraser Island. We have enjoyed prawns and Hervey Bay scallops all bought from a fishmonger right where the trawlers come in. The rest of the time we have spent just relaxing in the campsite and trying to remember if either of us locked the front door!! T
Our storage unit packed to the gunnels 
On the road!! 
Someone was happy to be coming along 
Beautiful spot to start it off 
Grilled veggies over the campfire 
Full moon for the first couple of nights 
Prawns on Hervey Bay seafront 
Queensland winters are fantastic 
Keep that horse away Griff 
Eagle’s nest