Queensland Vacation day 13 Goodbye Camper van, Hello Cairns

We woke up by the side of Bruce Highway and ate a quick breakfast and then got on the road.  We had pulled over in to a random gravel area with no amenities. About 15km further up the road we found the fully kitted out "driver reviver" location we had hoped to sleep in.  No worries, we didn't particularly care about the lack of bathrooms!

The road trip drew to a close today as we put the final 350 km between us and the Gold Coast and coasted in to Cairns. I say "coasted" as we had paid for the privilege of leaving the tank on empty, but you only make money on that option if you leave it below 20%.  Oh trust me, Dave did the math and we coasted in!

We could honestly have been driving in the Caribbean with the sugar cane on one side of the highway and the bananabananas on the other.  All while driving on the left hand side! We drove the van to our air bnb accommodation and unloaded it.

 All too soon for this kid (and 8 days too long for Monkey), it was time for big C to hug his beloved campervan goodbye.

 Once it was returned we got ready to head out and walk to the center of Cairns, the l'Esplanade and the Night Markets.

We ate sushi for the first time since leaving Canada and it was fabulous!!  Monkey grabbed fish n chips like he did a couple of weeks ago with grandma.

Big C loved the parks and is thrilled that we proposed to come back for a day of playing in them.  The reality of that negation was that we knew we would not get him out of there without making an agreement like that!

My phone is dying and I am exhausted. I'll have to discuss the stripper pole on the back porch in a subsequent post.