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Rowes Bay Campground, Townsville, Queensland, Australia. 778 km

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Australian word of the day: Nappies – Diapers. As in: Hope we won’t run out of nappies for Shir and Orr today on Magnetic Island.

We spent the last two days learning more and more about Australian wildlife. Yesterday we visited the Billabong Sanctuary, a great Aussie zoo a few km south of town. The main attractions were crocodile feedings, koala petting, cassowary feeding, fish feeding, dingo feeding etc…We passed from one guided feeding to another, and tried to pick up as much of the explanations as we could despite heavy local accents and rugby jokes.
Here are some interesting Koala facts – they sleep 18 hours a day (more…)

Big4 Campground, Townsville, Queensland, Australia. 712 km

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Australian word of the day:  How’re You Going? – How are you? Asked without really expecting an answer.

After reaching the northern apex of our Australian voyage in Cape Tribulation, we started progressing southward on Saturday. After crossing the Daintree river southward, we drove through Mossman to Mossman Gorge, also part of Daintree National Park. They have some rainforest walking tracks (trails), and a few swimming holes along the Mossman river. At one such swimming hole a crazy old Aboriginal with a very high pitched voice was making all the white folks laugh. We had a little problem with Orr, as one of her crocs shoe strap broke off. Each time we made a makeshift solution, she kept taking her shoe off and checking out the problem by recreating it. (more…)