So, after two videos, it is high time for the first blog post about our journey.

Although we only travel, the time for writing the blog posts is limited. Therefore, I cut down the number of blog posts. My goal is to publish one blog post and two videos (Schweizerdeutsche Zusammenfassung & General Impressions) per week.

The blog post contains the current travel route (via Google maps with a lot of help from Maggi), some hot tips and some travel insights and last but not least a short summary in Schwitzerdütsch from Maggi.

–> For the travel route click on the link.

Route

Day 1: Brisbane – Maroochydore

Day 2: Stay in Maroochydore

Day 3: Maroochydore – Tinana

Day 4: Stay in Tinana (visit Harvey Bay)

Day 5: Tinana – Seventeen Seventy

Day 6: Stay in Seventeen Seventy (Maggis Birthday, LARC excursion)

Day 7: Seventeen Seventy – Emu Park

Day 8: Stay in Emu Park (Crocodile park, singing ship)

Day 9: Stay in Emu Park (trip to Keppel island including snorkeling)

Day 10: Emu Park – Chinchilla

special recommendations

use TripAdvisor

This tool is very useful if you are not familiar with a place and you want to carry out which restaurant is the best or which places you have to visit. Of course, your taste could be different, but the crowd intelligence is mostly right 🙂

Breakfast in Maroochydore (Envy Café)

This café is quite awesome. You can choose between various breakfasts like salmon with a lemon sauce and toast or bruschetta or more common ones like bacon and eggs. Additionally, you can order delicious cafés (like in every place in Australia) or tasty smoothies.

Fraser Coast Wildlife Sanctuary

This little zoo is a volunteer project and very affordable in compare with the Kuala Sanctuary in Brisbane or the Sealife in Mooloolaba. The kangaroos are very trusting and lovely. You can them feed very easily; sometimes the kangaroos are fighting with each other for getting the food first. Furthermore, you can see assorted birds, reptiles, turtles and a huntsman spider (it is big but harmless).

Camping Seventeen Seventy

This camping ground is located at the little town with the number name. James Cook discovered the state Queensland in 1770 at this point. Besides the camping, there are only a few cafés and holiday residences. Different to the most other places at the east coast, on this camping you can see the sunset over the water. For Maggi and me a great opportunity because the sunset is mostly too early for us (at the moment about 4.45 am).

LARC-Tour

As you can see on the picture, this pink vehicle is quite big and can move in the water as well as on land. The tour guide was very friendly and explained us the history and the wildlife of this region in about 1 hour. He also had to entrain some children with some stories about penguins (some birds with black and white plumes) and funny surfings with the vehicle. It was a very pleasure trip.

A crocodile farm in Coowonga

This place was very impressive. The guide explained us in about 1.5 hours the farming of crocodiles and showed us a tour through the farm and the area and, of course, some examples of this very dangerous animals. One of the goals of maintaining this farm is to display the benefit of cultivating crocodiles: meat and skin = money = jobs. That’s the way it works.

Snorkeling

It’s just amazing. If you enter the region of the great barrier reef (or the southern part as we did), please take the time for a short or a longer snorkeling or diving trip. It was the first time for me, I would have regretted it if I haven’t done it! (Maggi too!)

Schwitzerdütschi Zämefassig

S Umereise fägt, mir hei schöni Ort entdeckt und gniesses.