From Hobart it is a short thirty minute drive to the first stop on our circuit of Tasmania,  the village of Kettering, which lies to the southwest of the capital .  However we never like to make life easy for ourselves and  about 90 mins drive the other way, to the south east of the…

It was time to leave the Sunshine Coast behind and head for Brisbane Airport for our flight to Hobart. However as we had an early morning flight, it meant a stop at an airport hotel the night before.  With this in mind we decided on day out en-route to the airport. Our destination was the…

In part one of this blog I wrote about a town/city called Gympie.  It was a slightly odd place as it did not seem to have a centre.  However our next city visit definitely did have a centre, and a fine one too. Maryborough, together with its close neighbour Hervey Bay form part of the…

Our base at Cooloola Cove gave us ample opportunities to visit other places of interest around the sunshine coast.  Maryborough got a very brief mention in the last blog but it is worthy of a more detailed narrative as it has an interesting history.  However our first city visit was to a place called Gympie,…

When we were planning this trip back in April/May last year we had told ourselves that we really needed a few days on the coast.   The Sunshine Coast north of Brisbane was our favoured location.  The trouble is we only like beaches like this one:   The deserted beach at Dunrownan near Hervey Bay….

It is January 2019 and this is becoming a habit, leaving  a miserable UK winter for what is becoming an annual tradition for us, escape to the sun in Australia. This trip is no different, an extended tour ending up in Melbourne with friends and family. So after spending over 21 hours on 2 aircraft…