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QUEENSLAND
 Australia offers you many unique sights and curious, delightful and awe inspiring travelling experiences. Choose where you will visit taking into account a comfortable travelling pace for you and what particularly excites your interest. This campervan holiday is a wonderful opportunity to unwind and savour what is on offer: natural beauty, great food and wine and the thrill of much exploring and adventuring. The following are possible locations you may wish to explore in Queensland. Visiting them may take longer than you have available, so choose a board area of interest to you and focus your attention there.
Cairns Close to the Great Barrier Reef, the Daintree Rainforest, Atherton Table Lands and Mission Beach, Cairns offers many activities and is also a great taking off point for the many scenic explorations close by. While in Cairns you can if you wish take a Sky Safari by Helicopter, do a horse or ATV tour, do some snorkeling, diving, sailing or fishing or do some white water rafting or bungy jumping. Daintree The Daintree Cape Tribulation Coast is where the Great Barrier Reef and the Daintree Forest meet: the only place where 2 World Heritage areas exist side by side. The Daintree National Park is an ecotourism paradise and also offers walking, driving, fishing, diving ,snorkeling, crocodile spotting and birdwatching.
Townsville Townsville city and it’s surrounding, vibrant region includes beautiful coastal towns, rugged Outback and country terrain. Activities for visitors include diving, fishing, white water rafting, scenic flights, skydiving, wetland and sugar cane field excursions and treks up Castle Hill
Musgrave Roadhouse
Archer River
Chillit Beach
Bramwell Junction
Elliot Falls
Punsand Bay
Seissa
Captain Billy Landing
Weipa Home of the world’s largest bauxite mine, Weipa offers warm and sunny weather for visitors, especially at a time other part of Australia are cold and wet. Fishing, camping, boating and swimming are popular pastimes, though it always pays to keep and eye out for ‘crocs’. The land around Weipa is not public land but visitor passes are readily available.
Fraser Island Fraser Island, another of Australia’s World Heritage listed locations, is exceptionally beautiful with long, white beaches, sand cliffs, over 100 freshwater lakes, ancient rainforests and wetlands. The island is of particular ecological and evolutionary significance and is protected for all to appreciate and enjoy.
Brisbane Located in the North East of Queensland. Brisbane, the state capital, is a large, modern, vibrant city. There are galleries, wildlife parks, museums, markets and adventure activities to enjoy. There are beaches, rivers, bays, parklands, forests and mountains to explore. And all year round there are festivals and special events to add to the range of activities available to visitors.
Bundaberg Bundaberg has 140 kilometers of beautiful beaches which are stinger free and therefore great for swimming or surfing. There is a particularly vibrant marine environment with whales passing by and the largest mainland rookery of turtles in Australia. In the hinterland there are wilderness adventures and comfortable motels and campervan sites for visitors.
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