Day 25 to 32 - East Coast Brisbane to Cairns

Brisbane Skyline

Here we are now, after a one and a half hour flight we arrived in Brisbane where we stayed for one night. We were impressed because we didn't expected that Brisbane is so cool. It's a lively city with a lot of bars and restaurants. If you want to have a nice view on the skyline go to Story Bridge in Fortitude Valley, that's amazing at sunset.

The next day, when we left Brisbane, was our start for the roadtrip to Cairns along the east coast of Australia.

5,6km jetty in Lucinda

Our first destination on the trip was Rainbow Beach - it was raining
Fraser Island - stormy
Bundaburg - heavy rain
Gladstone - thunderstorms
Airlie Beach - just rain
Withsunday Islands - particullary rain
Townsville - flooded streets
Cairns - unbelieveable, some sunshine

Cassowary in Etty Bay

Etty Bay

This was our trip on the east coast but although the weather was not the best we had fun and did some tours on Fraser Island and the Whitsundays.
We saw wild cassowaries (very large flightless birds up to 2m tall) in Etty Bay and a more than 5km long jetty in Lucinda. Of course all of that is even nicer at good weather.

Shipwreck Fraser Island

Sailing on the Withsundays

Our 4WD Bus on Fraser

Since we are in Cairns we have more luck and we dived at the Great Barrier Reef and did a tour to the Daintree Rainforest north of Cairns. We will write about that in our next blog entry.