Kings day celebration, on our way to Cairns, some great overnight stops!

G'day Mates!

So, now you all know that we are going back to The Netherlands I can continue with our adventures here. As I said Danny was here on holidays for 5 weeks, he came end of April and left beginning of June.

We had a marvellous time, started at my Aunts place in the hinterlands of the Gold Coast. After a first good night sleep he was relaxed and started to prepare himself for the coming trip to the far North.

Having had a long flight from Europe a jet lag is inevitable so we planned some hard labour for Danny to keep him awake.

Not only Danny had to work.....

We also had a celebration day on the 27 th of April as that is the Kings (of the Netherlands) birthday,

 Totally dressed in orange we went to the Gold Coast to spent some time there. We had some nice comments about our outfit haha, there were more Dutchies there!

The tradition on that particular day is to drink "Oranje Bitter", in the Netherlands you can buy a bottle in the liquor shop but not here of course so Danny tried to make it himself. It wasn't quite the same taste, actually it was much nicer but also much stronger in alcohol.

 It was so nice that we drank it not only that day but also the next days as long as we were at my Aunts.
Of course we didn't only drink, we also had to cook.....

A huge hamburger.....

And of course we did the same trip with him as we did with Sheila, except for Springbrook as we had done that with him already, I think about 5 or 6 years ago. So it was only Natural Bridge...

Looks like a trumpet....

Having lunch somewhere is standard, unfortunately it was a bit cool and it rained.....

Leaving Auntie behind we started the long trip north and our first stop was at Yandina, a very nice spot with amazing plants and wildlife.

First time putting up the tent again....

 Look at these leafs, never seen them so big!

Very nice spot; its called Hidden Valley from you camp!

 From Yandina we did a day trip to Coolum, there we had a nice walk along the beach ...

and after Coolum we went to the ginger factory in Yandina. I love ginger and it is very healthy as well!

Our next stop was in Torbanlea, on the Racecourse; also a good overnight camp spot....

And with the sun about to set I leave you to it.....

That's it for now folks! Till next time.

Cheers!