How does a camping road trip to Tropical North Queensland sound to you? For my wife and me it would be a good opportunity to try out our new OZTENT instant tent. The alluring North Queensland warm, tropical climate is hard to resist when the weather down south is cold. We wanted to revisit familiar places and to enjoy the warmth of the tropics in Australia's winter season.
Our camping trip would see us driving from Toowoomba QLD in the Darling Downs up to the Atherton Tableland in the Cairns QLD hinterland, approximately 1,720 km away. The trip would be along the Bruce Highway driving up the east coast of QLD. Moving from the sub tropics of South East Qld we would cross the Tropic of Capricorn at Rockhampton Qld and continue north to Far North QLD.