458 km
All excited and packed we left Brisbane early on Saturday morning. Two vehicles: Toyota Hilux towing trailer and Toyota Land cruiser. Five members make up our travel party: me, the documenter of the trip, Lara and Johan, as well as Christo and Matt. Matt just recently arrived from Vietnam. I’m the 5th wheel and not a car owner , just lucky to be in for the ride J .
Several hours north of Brisbane we got signal and noticed that Brisbane is going into Covid lockdown from 4pm. We thought lucky we made it out way before the time! The instruction being lockdown if you can. We discussed our current situation , checked if any of us had been in hotspots, which we had not. Further, we decided to self isolate in the car, free camping, away from people and cancelled all our accommodation up the coast, as we went up a much less busy inland route.
Our camp for the night was approximately 20km down a dirt road, sponsored by a rural fire station. Was great: had toilets, picnic tables and BBQ. The best was that we had it all to ourselves!
Everyone had a pretty cold night! I’m in my hiking tent and sleeping on 2x foam pads. I used my buff as a beanie and had my warm jacket on. It was 7C.
