Mr. & Mrs. Vandebilt + kids

Still in search of a beach day we headed farther north up the coast to Conway national park. We spent the morning on the rather small beach until the tide kicked us off. We went into Airlie Beach for the afternoon. The tide was all the way in so we walked around the boardwalk. Airlie Read more

In Mackay there is a national park, Eungella which is supposedly the home to the largest population of platypus. Since we have never seen a platypus we decided we’d take a look. The park sits on the top of a mountain. Thankfully we were able to drive up, climbing 700m in less than 4km of Read more

Finally a full day of sun! We spent the morning being lazy at the campground. Jacob sat in the sun and finished up a book as I walked the beach. Not a bad way to start the day. We headed to the beach just outside of the city hoping to get some more of the Read more

We woke up again to more rain and decided we had had enough. We would just drive north until we finally found the sun. Thankfully it was only a couple hours away. About every three nights we figure it’s time for a shower and so we pay to stay at a campground. We found a Read more

We have been having pretty bad luck a far as weather goes. It rained the entire time we were on the Sunshine Coast. Since our only plan had been to go to the beach we didn’t really know what to do. We have covered quite a bit more ground than we had planned on in Read more

After leaving sydey we headed to the coast in search of some beach time. We had two good days of weather and got to see some unbelievable scenery. Driving around I am continually stunned by the amount of beauty and nature there is here. Almost immediately outside of Sydney the city disappears and we are Read more