Bransby & Friends’ Oz Trip 2025

Up this morning and headed for Port Douglas, or the Port Douglas Ocean View Farmstay that would be our home for the next 3 nights.  And what  a magnificent campsite it was. Maximum five vans overlooking the ocean and Port Douglas. Just magical. We sat and admired the view over a cuppa and then went down for a walk along the beach.  Got back just in time to watch another magnificent sunset. The colours just got better and better!. Dinner by Shaun tonight was delicious - Mexican burrito bowls!! We did a bit of planning and played a bit of cards before calling it a night. 

Alarm set again this morning- 6.45am! What is going on??? 🤦‍♀️ This time Ian and I were off on our own down to the boat ramp for a fishing charter. The weather was beautiful and the ocean was like a millpond. After an hour of casting the net by the jetty to catch some live bait, we headed to Indian Head to try our luck.  It wasn’t long before Ian pulled in a big queen fish! And not long after that when I caught one too! The rods were all going off. Another lady on the boat caught a coral trout and then a cod.  And then it was my turn again, this time for a coral trout.  The fish went a bit quiet for a while but Ian and I both managed to pull in a couple more. I pulled in another big queen fish which put up a huge fight but Tomas (our skipper) threw it back in before I could take a pic. 😢 We saw lots of turtles too swimming pretty close. The wind had picked up a bit so by the time we headed in about 12pm it was very bumpy and we all got really wet! Tomas filleted our fis...

The alarm was set again this morning!! There is way too much of that happening lol! We wanted to get an early start out to Elim Beach to check out the Rainbow Sands. Lucky we did as it proved quite tricky to find. We stopped at Hope Vale for Rach & Shaun to grab a coffee. There were so many dogs there and a couple of them clearly neglected, it broke my heart.  We made it to Elim Beach but the signage wasn’t great so we ended up taking the track up past the campground I think towards Cape Bedford. Wherever we were, it was beautiful. And all part of the adventure. Found lots of these weird formations on the beach which we discovered are made by lug worms!  When you gotta go, you gotta go! Worked out we were in the wrong spot and made our away back to Elim campground. It was a beautiful spot and had camping right on the beach. We were going to stay here a night but it didn’t work out with the timing. In hindsight that was a good thing as the road in was t great and apparently...