Travelling without a specific plan

We are doing our trek on more of a day to day basis….not rigidly planning out where we will go and what we will do.

This, for us is true holidaying for this trip. There are times when this type of travelling doesn’t work but luckily this time is not one of those.

It is funny though to see the expressions on some people’s faces when they ask where you off to next and we say dunno see where we go or something similar. One man said but haven’t you booked something with such horror on his face I felt sorry for him that he was so concerned for us.

But you know, we wouldn’t have it any other way as so far we have been so lucky in this wandering way that has provided us with some fantastic experiences and we have met some people that we ordinarily would never have had the chance to meet and we love the opportunity to offer this type of experience as a family.

Don’t get me wrong we do have a rough itinerary of where we want to head and the general vicinity of where we will end up at the end of that day ….. but the rest is down to fate and the freedom of that is awesome.

The other day for example we were headed to Clairview but once we got there we decided to move on. It did have a lovely outlook over the water but it had nothing…no shop, petrol station or anything. I am not one for needing a huge shopping centre as I am not a shopper, but I do like having a corner store or anything, but there was literally no little community as such here…. and unfortunately on the day we chose to go there there was no electricity so there then was no flushing toilets which was not so nice, so to our good fortune we then went on to the next little place which was Carmilla beach. There was not too much here either…a petrol station come mini shop/cafe, a pub, a what I call travelling police presence with the police being in ‘town’ between 9-1 Thursdays and not too much more but I would have to rate this place one of the best we have been too so far. It wasn’t because it was a free stay (you could stay there for 3 days completely free of charge) but it was the view and the peace and tranquility and I can honestly say this place was the kind of place that you mark on the map as a definite to come back to.

Here we also had the opportunity of meeting some lovely people….a couple who had a Holden and a Jayco and they became bogged and our trusty Toyota (not an ad!) came to the rescue but that opened up a conversational piece and they were from San Remo in Victoria and we learnt lots of great tips from them as they had been doing this off and on for many years….since their kids were young.

We also met a man called Zeke who originally came from England over 20 odd years ago and had been ‘on the road’ travelling his nomadic lifestyle for 8 years. He also made African Harps…the music was so soothing – in the most perfect of spots too. He travels around does some festivals and what not and gave us our own little show and showed us one of his harps he had made. It was one of his originals. He explained that it was a long process of making one and that he only makes a few a year. We did ask if we could put an order in for one and he said he had a back log (lucky him) and we exchanged info and hope we meet up with him along the traps again. He mentioned a family orientated festive called the Wallaby Creek Festival that he was playing at in September in Cooktown. We have decided to go all the way to Cooktown on our trip; I mean we are so close once we hit Cairns.