Queensland

Best travel reports from Queensland

Alien Surfgirls - Agnes Water, 1770 / 12th and 13th November 2018

At 2 o'clock in the morning we arrived 25km away from Agnes Water with our bus and this time we were really kicked out in the middle of nowhere on a dirt road. However, the...

Cape Tribulation and Daintree 4WD Tour, 22.10.18

This is specially for my English course. Since I missed my English lesson this semester while I am in Australia, I am doing my homework and writing one day from my blog in...

Crocodile Farm near Rockhampton

We were happy too early because it rained all night again. And breakfast in the camper again, not before. But it got better hour by hour. The area didn't change much. Eucalyptus...

Arrival in Australia: Cairns - of sniffers and toilet rules (Australia part 1)

After some difficulties at Denpasar airport (see Bali part 10), we landed in Cairns after 3 hours of sleep. View from the plane of the coast in front of Cairns ...

Tablelands - Day 1+2, Waterfall Circuit, Lake Tinaroo

Update 03.04.+04.04. On the 3rd, we were a little active again. We continued inland from Mission Beach to Tableland National Park. The waterfalls are the most famous there,...

Brisbane, Fraser Island and lots of fun

We spent the last weekend on Fraser Island. A wonderfully beautiful sand island in the middle of the Pacific. By the way, the largest sand island in the world. The Aborigines...

we-at-Fraser Island

December 17 - East-Coast QLD Australia: the City of 1770 (Agnes Water), Fraser Island, Noosa(-ville)

we-at-Great Barrier Reef & Whitsunday Islands

December 17 - East-Coast QLD Australia: Daintree River, Jungle, Cairns, Whitsundays (Islands), Arlie Beach

Whitsunday Island

Another 300 kilometers and we were in Airlie Beach. This is where everyone who wants to go to the Whitsundays ends up. It's a small town right by the sea with a promenade and a...

Two First Times

After Byron, we headed towards the Gold Coast/Surfers Paradise. We took the opportunity to cruise through the beautiful hinterland and make a stop at Springbrook National Park...

Billabong Sanctuary

Another zoo 😃, but the weather doesn't give us many other chances, we had to skip museums 😉. On the way north to Townsville, we stumbled upon this zoo, after a short rain...

Cairns / Australien

12/10/17 - 15/10/17 Hier gibt es leider nicht viele Bilder, da wir in Cairns nicht mehr viel gemacht haben, sondern mehr oder weniger nur auf unseren Weiterflug nach Bali...

Sydney -> Brisbane

Actually not worth mentioning the flight there you might think, only 1.5 hours, but more happened than on the other 3 flights 😬 One after the other, set the alarm, got up,...

Airlie Beach- Sailing trip with the Derwent Hunter

From Townsville, we continued to Bowen for one night. On the way there, we took a short detour to Horseshoe Beach Bowen and visited the Lookout Point Flagstaff Hill to spot...

From Cairns by train to the jungle village Kuranda and back with the Skyrail

This morning we took an old gold miner's train from the Freshwater Train Station through the jungle to Kuranda. It was our daughter's first train ride and she was more than...

Gold Coast Surfers Paradise - Australia

14/09/17 - 17/09/17 Unfortunately, there's not much to tell here because there's not much to do except for lying on the beach or going out for a party 😀 But the city is...

Wild Life Habitat and Crocodile Spotting Port Douglas

Our day started very early today, at 6 o'clock the night was over. We packed up our camp and drove to the nearby Wild Life Habitat in Port Douglas. The habitat is a fenced area,...

Master of Chicken McNuggets

After the paths of the Ingelheim Connection had separated at Brisbane airport, I headed towards Robina on the Gold Coast to visit the Commander aka Dominik Mattes Arnold. As I...

Bowen, Paronella NP, Tablelands

12.06.17 Bowen After saying goodbye to the two guys, we treat ourselves to a day at the beach. The weather is beautiful, the sun is shining, and the water is nice and warm. We...

Platypus

View of Rockhampton

Springbrook National Park

During my parents' visit to Australia for the past 2.5 weeks, we naturally did many enjoyable activities together. One of them was a trip to Springbrook National Park, which is...

My last week of school (19th - 23rd December)

My first 3 weeks in Australia have passed by incredibly quickly. When I had my last day of school on the 23rd of December, I couldn't believe it. I am really sad that my flight...

Departure and arrival (3.12.)

On the way to Down Under

Surfers Paradise / Gold Coast

16. – 20.NOVEMBER 2016 DAYS 17 - 21 We spent the last few days in Surfers Paradise / Gold Coast. After not liking the Sunshine Coast much, we were a bit skeptical driving south...

Babinda - The Boulders

the first days in the Outback

07.05.2026

The day began today with a morning walk after breakfast along the palms by the beach. The sun was already shining brightly! The palms and the very old eucalyptus trees along the...

30.04.2026

Our excursion today lasted from 6 to 6, from dark to dark. In the twilight, we set off for Airlie Beach, a vacation hotspot, 'near' the Great Barrier Reef. Check-in for the tour...

April 28, 2026

Today, we traveled from the subtropical to the tropical part of Australia, initially heading to the climatic zone boundary - to Rockhampton, the 'beef capital' of Queensland,...