Road trip starts: Wonga beach

So where to start? Left our lovely Palm Cove ‘static’ accommodation yesterday (Tues?) to begin a life ‘on the road’. Having had a motor home test run earlier in the year, I roughly knew what lay ahead - or did I?

We had to juggle a car drop-off / camper pick-up scenario - both at the same times but different places in Cairns airport. Once the swop was completed, we were introduced to our Maui Ultima Plus: https://www.maui-rentals.com/nz/en/motorhome-hi…

It’s small. Not the smallest, but still small….. I will need to engage my bestest organisational skills to get our modest luggage, packed away somehow. We also went to Coles (i.e. Tesco) so had bags of shopping to accommodate as well. We were surrounded by an overwhelming sea of bags, many of which still remain 😬

So we rattled (literally) up the road from Cairns to our first camp stop Wonga beach, arriving late afternoon. Everyone else was in situ, and we felt their eyes on us as we manoeuvred noisily (reverse beep beeps etc) into our allocated space, with me flapping my arms in an effort to guide Col in.

Then began the tortuous process of ‘finding places for things’. A work in progress…..

We bought some beautiful local prawns to ‘stick on the barbie’, and somehow cobbled together dinner amongst the chaos!Read more