We arrived late Thursday morning in Brisbane: the flight took 1.5 hours, but – due to the fact Queensland doesn’t observe daylight saving – we arrived at 11:40 after an 11:10 departure from Sydney.
When we originally budgeted time for Australia we scheduled 5 or so days for Sydney (which were eaten into by us extending our stay in New Zealand) and then about 10 days to get from Brisbane to Cairns (flying into Brisbane on the 2nd, flying out of Cairns on the 13th). When we came to book a campervan we realized we didn’t have as much time as we thought: our flight out is at 7am from Cairns on a Monday morning, which basically means we’ll have to drop the campervan back on Saturday 11th. Which means we suddenly have 9 days to do the full journey, and when you factor in staying near Brisbane the first night that dropped down to 8. As the drive is a minimum of 1,700 km (not taking any detours into account), this was certainly going to mean we it would be hard to stay…