Blog 81 Australia 1995 Retrospective 🌠The kids were young, the journey there was a nightmare, flight stops we didn't even know about

Keef Hellinger
Nov 13, 2021
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Updated: May 22

By keef and annie hellinger, Feb 22 2015 08:33PM Australia 1995

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Australia 1995 - A sun‑drenched leap back to Australia in 1995 brings wide roads, big skies and the kind of motorhome freedom that made every day feel like an adventure. This cheerful retrospective revisits Queensland highlights, coastal wanders, wildlife encounters and memories that still sparkle decades later. A warm, nostalgic look at a trip where the scenery was epic, the pace was easy and the whole journey felt wonderfully larger than life. We travelled around the east coast of Australia by car, foot, ferry, boat, public transport and a juggernaut of a motorhome in Queensland which would have held 6 people and had 10 gears. It was a great way to get across the Atherton table land apart from the 3 mile queue behind us as its top speed in the bottom of the 10 gears wasn't great *SMILE*. Starting in Sydney with family we then travelled via Canberra down to Melbourne and then along the Great Ocean road as far as Warranambool and whale watched southern right whales at Logan's Beach before returning to Melbourne and flying up to Cairns to pick up our motorhome for a fortnight. We visited the Atherton tablelands cane sugar country and Green Island by ferry to see some of the Great Barrier Reef. We then returned to Sydney before flying home. Fab times. If you want to see and read more about our various trips to the southern hemisphere why not click 2007/2008 or 2013 or if you specifically wanna see 1995 click here Also 2017 Enjoy - have you done this trip or something similar, let us know about it here, thanks!