We're offSept 25 Sydney (Beahces)Sept 26 Sydney (walking tour)Sept 27 Flight to Brisbane28Sept SPACESHIPSept 29th KillarneySept 30th Killarney to Glen Innes1Oct Glenn Inns to Warren2Oct Warren to White Cliffs3Oct White Cliffs to Broken Hill4Oct Broken Hill to Flinders Rangers5Oct – Flinders RangersOct 6 – Flinders to Port Augusta7 Oct - Port Augusta to Coober Pedy7Oct - What have we learnt so far…7Oct - Next up8 Oct – Coober Pedy to Mt Ebenezer9 Oct Mt Ebenezer to Yulara10 Oct Ayers Rock to Alice Springs11 Oct Alice Springs to Tennant Creek.12 Oct Tennant Creek to CloncurryOct 13 Cloncurry to Karumba14 Oct Karumba to Ravenshoe15 Oct Ravenshoe to Yungaburra16 Oct Yungaburra to Cairns (Palm Cove)17 Oct Palm Cove to Port Douglas18 Oct Port Douglas to Newell Beach19 Oct Newell Beach to CairnsOct 20 Cairns to Bingal Bay (Mission Beach)Oct 21 Bingal Bay (Mission Beach)Oct 22 Bingal Bay (Mission Beach)Oct 23 Bingal Bay - InghamOct 24 Ingham - Home HillOct 25 Home Hill to ProserpineOct 26 Proserpine to RockhamptonOct 27 Rockhampton to 1770Oct 28 1770Oct 29 1770 to Bundaburg (Burnett Heads)Oct 30 Burnett Heads – Tin Can BayOct 31 TinCan Bay to Rainbow beachNov 1 Rainbow beach to CaloundraNov 2 Caloundra to Main armNov 3 Main arm to Byron BayNov 4 Byron Bay to WooliNov 5 WooliNov 6 Wolli to BerrimaBerrima to Eltham (Melbourne)Nov 8 - 22 Eltham (Melbourne)nov 23 Eltham to Ballaratnov 24 Ballarat to Mt GambierNov 25 Mt Gambier to PortlandNov 26 Portland to Port CampbellNov 27 Port Campbell to LorneNov 28 Lorne to JanJucNov 29 Jan Juc to CoolendinaDec 3 Coolendina to Ryenov 30 to Dec 2 Surf Coast
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Palm Beach, Australia
We hit the trail as the Atherton tablelands still held a few points of interest before heading to the coast. Mareba, our first stop, is a mini Columbia and home to the largest coffee plantation in Oz which offers tastings and a museum for a small fee. Originally we were not going to stop as neither of us are coffee drinker but along the way we heard it was a must so we went to get our java fix.
WELL, it was like stepping into heaven! Some thirsty odd brews with additional teas and chocolates ALL YOU CAN HANDLE! After my tenth cuppa I was BUZZIN’! I could feel the caffeine coursing through my brain steam making me happy and flighty if only slightly dizzy. How is this legal? We decided to take a break from the jo and walked through the museum which was FILLED to the gills with coffee paraphernalia of all shapes and sizes. Each visitor got a type of walky talky which delivers sound bytes for most of the articles in the museum. My skitty state didn’t bode well for concentration but it was interesting to learn about the origins and history of coffee.
Interesting java factoid #1
Coffee was introduced in the work place to replace alkamahal as many of the workers were getting injured from WUI (working while under the influence). Hence the coffee break was born!
Interesting java factoid #2
Since coffee was made to replace alcohol the drink vessel was directly influenced by the countries spirits of choice. Italy who sipped from delicate goblets took to drinking strong coffee in teeny little cups – espresso anyone. Les Français who preferred une coupe de vin crafted fancy cups with delicate handles to accommodate this warm new brew and lets not forget England who would guzzled beer from mugs now sip coffee from mugs with similar sturdy handles well until noon anyways.
One last Interesting java factoid #3
England didn’t take to adding milk to their coffee as their milk was often contaminated.
THE MORE YOU KNOW
Now, as some of you may know digestive health can be an issue when traveling… Ginger and prunes can be a natural way to clear things up but as we found out after our unlimited tasting, coffee will clear the track in no time flat! (I think that could be a good slogan)
Now that you know more that ever needed or wanted to know about our digestive tracks we can move on with the day. I’ll spare the details; there was a mango winery, a banana field and a hammer head shark.
WHAAAA!!!
Ok I guess I should elaborate that last bit. Palm Cove, a beachside community on the outskirts of Cairns was our budget destination for the night. We settled into our cheap council caravan park then headed to the jetty (dock) which was lined with fisher people. We got to chatting with some locals who had claimed the end of the dock. Blah blah blah… FISH ON!!! Holly jumping banana boats! Reel, reel reel, zzzzzzz (drag), reel reel… A baby HAMMER HEAD SHARK!!!!!!! They were about to toss it back in the water like we would a nasty pike when they noticed the grinning tourists and let us strike a pose before sending the little guy home.
Marc-André couldn’t believe how strong the 2 foot thing was. He could barely keep hold on it.
G’night!
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