Friday, 9th March 2018
Again a rainy day – it was very dismal at the camp site so we had our breakfast at the camp kitchen where we were dry and comfortable – used up the last of our food supplies and had fried eggs with mushrooms and tomatoes accompanied by sliced avocado on toasted ciabatta bread, coffee and tea. We left our left over food supply which included olive oil, balsamic vinegar, herbs in the camp kitchen to be used by other campers.
Then we tried tidying up the camper but we couldn’t put anything outside as it was still raining so we just packed our bags, showered and started driving. We did stop on the way out to settle our one night stay. The lady at the reception desk thanked me for our honesty and not having driven away!
As we had booked a hotel in Cairns, we drove there first to the hotel to offload our luggage and then to the Apollo offices and depot to deliver back our camper van. We travelled 3.500 km with our van from Sydney to Cairns with all the stops we had at the beautiful sites. We have very good memories of waterfalls, fantastic rock formations, scenic bays, luscious green rain forests, kangaroos, koalas, white surf but also memories of flies, mozzies who chose to chew me up but not Gerry!
We had hoped to deliver our camper van next week Friday, but both of us could not stand the wet season even though the temperatures are high – so after settling everything at the Apollo office, we got a taxi back to the hotel and settled in – luckily we have a veranda where Gerry can enjoy his smoke and very good wifi connection so that I could catch up with my blog! We didn’t need to McDonald’s today!
Later in the evening, we did get out a bit to have dinner – again so much rain – we watched people dressed in ponchos and carrying umbrellas go past the restaurant – all drenched to the skin – and that’s how we got back to the hotel, completely soaked!
Let’s see what it’s like tomorrow!!
