If you do a Google Map search for Fingal, you will actually come across a place called Fingal in Tasmania. However, on mentioning this to Geoff Mack, the writer of “I’ve been everywhere”, he said that the Fingal he had in mind when writing the song...
As I drove into Coolangatta I started to get a sense of Deja Vu. Long stretches of golden sand and sea, towering apartment blocks, boutique shops and surf shops were all in attendance creating similarities with other larger surf orientated resorts. Not unlike...
There are several Queensland towns with Tamborine in their name. Mout Tamborine, North Tamborine and my destination, plain and simple, Tamborine. The photo above is one of the main junctions into the township with the stores. The rest of the village consists of a...
Yeerongpilly is a quaint Brisbane suburb. Centred on a one-way system and a strange roundabout system it immediately comes across as quite industrial with car repair shops and the like present and apparently has a large Asian and growing Sub-Saharan African...
Like Strathpine before it, Indooroopilly is another Brisbane suburb which consists of residential property and a large shopping centre (this time the largest in Brisbane’s western suburbs) and a lot of traffic. I popped into the shopping centre but having forgot...
I left Mooloolaba early for Strathpine in the hope of missing traffic. Unfortunately this resulted in me arriving in this north Brisbane suburb at the start of the daily rush hour. The town today appears to comprise of the busy main Gympie Road, leading into Brisbane...
The Mooloolaba tourism website says it all really when they say “Welcome to sun-kissed beaches, boutique shopping and atmospheric dining – in Mooloolaba. Come as you are”. The town comes across as a “mini-me” version of its neighbouring...
Maroochydore was quiet when I arrived, and for that matter quiet when I left. The weather was to blame. Had it been sunny, I am sure that the beaches and the resort style town would have been buzzing with people, instead, I wander through an almost lonely beachside...
On the outskirts of Nambour in Woombye, I am pleased to report that I stumbled across my second “Big” Australian icon of this tour. This time, the BIG Pineapple! I sat in the car marvelling at this spectacle for a few minutes and was impressed by the...
Day 28 – 11,473 KM. Town 57. I arrived in a wet Toowoomba late in the day but even though night was drawing in, the green glow that many Queensland locations have was present. Recent rain, of which there has been plenty, was causing vegetation to explode into colour...
