Road trip

We put the word ‘road’ in road trip today. Have left the coast for a bit and driven a mere 6 hours inland (approx 600k) and we’re still in North Queensland.

Fancied getting a glimpse of the gemfields area, so we’ve ended up in Blue Gem campsite, Sapphire (not far from Emerald, which is also near Rubyvale). We will try to make our fortune tomorrow by ‘fossicking’ for gems 💎 ourselves.

Throughout the whole drive, we passed through a handful of ‘towns’, which were really just petrol stations / general stores and not much else. The rest of the drive was sugarcane, fields, countryside - mile after mile of it.

Our campsite for the next two nights is pretty much empty. Makes a welcome change from the ‘sardines’ set-up all the beachside camps seem to have!Read more