Lennox Head

Leaving Noosa for our 4 hour trip today, we joined the Bruce Highway for the last time. This road has been our travelling companion for the 9 days as we have driven south from Cairns, down the coast. We’ve now done just over 2500 kilometres in the camper although it doesn’t seem like it. As we approached Brisbane the highway became the Steve Irwin Way, and then we were in Brisbane.

Brisbane

Our route took us right through the middle of the city. We were seduced by the exotic sounding ‘Main Beach’ and ‘Surfers Paradise’ so we took the coast road. What a mistake, high rise hell, Benidorm on the Gold Coast.

Surfers Paradise..............!

Amazing for us, we then drove through a time zone as we left Queensland and entered New South Wales, gaining an hour, just like that! We’ve also swapped the Sunshine Coast for the Gold Coast and the Coral Sea for the Tasman Sea.

We passed through lovely Byron Bay, which was full of schoolies, as we’d been warned, great place but for another time perhaps. Lennox Head is Byron Bays little brother and it is just as nice but on a smaller scale. Our campsite is right next to Lake Ainsworth, freshwater stained brown from the tannin in the surrounding tea trees and lovely and warm. We’re also only about 400 meters from 7 mile beach.

As we’re two nights here we dedicated the next day to the beach. I hired a bodyboard and had fun in the waves. And Deb relaxed. We were both a bit frazzled by the time it came to throw the prawns on the barbie.

Lovely place this that we could stay a week.

For interest – we passed the Versace Hotel in Main Beach where I’m a Celebrity is currently being filmed. Didn’t spot Ant of Dec though. Phew! No bush tucker trial for us tonight.