Tropical North Queensland

Josephine Falls

Posted on February 16, 2015 by Are We There Yet?

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Ok, enough of the soppy stuff – my poor Dad will be shaking his head and wondering what the world is coming to with such public displays of affection – love you too Dad!

Back to sharing some of our summer holiday fun!  If you read our Bramston Beach post then you will know that while we were staying there it was hot, hot, hot.  To survive our week without air-conditioning, we headed away from the beach on quite a few occasions in search of cool, refreshing, shady water holes and Josephine Falls was voted the favourite by the kids.  Can you see why? Continue reading →

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Bramston Beach

Posted on February 11, 2015 by Are We There Yet?

DSC_0146Here at last is the promised Bramston Beach post.  We (being my sister Beth and her family, my mum & dad and our Fealy Family – as well as a few ring-ins, the Kendalls, Tom and Worrell families, who stayed a night or two throughout our visit) spent a week at the end of January staying in a very old beach house at Bramston Beach.  We had a really good time, but it was very, very, very hot and we didn’t have air-conditioning.  Oh, and all the kids ended up with school sores (thanks Lexi!).  So, that’s just a bit of the reality before I show you some photos.  Here’s a few taken by my very clever cousin Sarah, from Sarah Kendall Photography, to set the scene of our week. Continue reading →

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We’re Still Here! An Update Post.

Posted on February 10, 2015 by Are We There Yet?

Oh dear.  I have just realised that it has been over a month since our last post – aaaargh – how did that happen!  I’m really sorry if we actually have any readers who missed us!  I have no idea if anybody is even following our blog any more, but I’m going to keep posting anyway – just cause I love it and this is our family record keeping place.

So.  What’s been happening with the Fealy Family you ask?   Continue reading →

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Granite Gorge – Mareeba

Posted on December 8, 2014 by Are We There Yet?

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We are into the last week of the school term here – yippeeeee!  I love school holidays and can not wait to have a break from lunch boxes, uniforms and after school activities!  Of course there will be some fighting and far too many ‘I’m hungry’s’, but I really am looking forward to having all the kids at home for a big break from routine! We don’t have a lot planned for these holidays as Matt will be very busy with Mango Madness here on the farm, but we have a visit from the Townsville cousins and the Perth cousins to look forward to, as well as a week away at the beach in January, so still lots of fun to be had!

I am so behind with my blogging that I haven’t even posted about the great day out we had at Granite Gorge, just outside Mareeba, with the Brissy cousins last school holidays at the beginning of October!  So, here’s the details now in case you want to make a visit out there these holidays. Continue reading →

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Helicopter Muster

Posted on November 24, 2014 by Are We There Yet?

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Not the weekend just gone, but the one before that – we were lucky enough to be able to sneak away from the farm and go up to Matt’s uncle’s cattle station, Ben Avon, for the weekend.  We were even luckier that this weekend happened to be a scheduled helicopter muster.  I spent Friday doing some baking for the weekend as there were going to be a few of us up there and morning smoko and afternoon tea is always a requirement at Ben Avon!  As soon as the kids hopped off the bus on Friday afternoon we packed everything, plus the dog into the car and headed off for the two hour drive.  It’s a pretty drive so no-one was complaining! Continue reading →

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A Morning Walk at Mission Beach

Posted on November 19, 2014 by Are We There Yet?

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I’m finishing off my series of posts about Mission Beach with this one.  We’ve shared about the Mission Beach Sunset Sail and the Mission Beach Wedding, well now this is a Mission Beach Morning Walk!

Those of you who have kids or have had them, will most likely agree that going on holidays with kids is not always a walk in the park!  One of the things that always happens when we go away with our kiddos is that they don’t sleep well.  Particularly when we have a baby in the mix!  It always seems to take a few nights for them to settle in to their new beds and surroundings before they go back to sleeping right through the night and not waking up at the crack of dawn in excitement at being somewhere different!

Well – we had kind of forgotten all this as our older three were pretty much past this stage or had become great travellers after our trip around Oz last year!  Enter our now five month old baby Kipp and we were given the ‘parents with baby on holiday’ rude reminder!   Continue reading →

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Tastes of the Tablelands

Posted on November 17, 2014 by Are We There Yet?

10665101_771775732889591_1388650302910152258_nA few weeks back now, we had a visit from the high profile Melbourne food blogger ‘I Eat Melbourne’.  We gave them the backstage pass tour of the Blue Sky Produce orchards and chatted about all sorts of things food and social media related! Continue reading →

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A Mission Beach Wedding

Posted on November 12, 2014 by Are We There Yet?

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I LOVE weddings soooooo much!  I love the gathering of family and friends to celebrate, the chance to visit somewhere beautiful and new, dress up and kick up your heels for the day – it doesn’t get much better in my book!  As you know – at the end of September we headed to Mission Beach for my friend Mel’s wedding.  You’ve already read about where we stayed and the Hen’s Night Sunset Sail, so now time for a post about the awesome wedding which Mel has kindly let me share some of the details of with you!  Let’s start with a few beautiful photos of the day ………………………………… Continue reading →

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Port Douglas Wildlife Habitat

Posted on November 6, 2014 by Are We There Yet?

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So, it’s official – we can now tick off being world record holders from the bucket list – woot, woot!!  What am I on about?  Well, on the 4th of October the kids and I and the cousies, took part in the world record breaking Queensland Instameet at the Wildlife Habitat in Port Douglas.  What the heck is an ‘instameet’ you ask?  Well, you can read this post on the official Queensland travel blog, but basically, “an Instameet is where people gather in a pre-determined place, at a set time, to take photos then upload them to Instagram. That’s it really”.

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We had a really good time, but before I share the story of our day – here’s a few stats for you.

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Big Mama – A Sunset Sail at Mission Beach

Posted on October 27, 2014 by Are We There Yet?

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Remember a few weeks ago I posted the first of a few posts that were to come about our few days away at Mission Beach?  Well here is a quick post about an awesome afternoon sailing aboard ‘Big Mama’ a charter yacht, which my friend Mel hired to celebrate her last night as a single lady!  It was a magic afternoon and something I had been looking forward to for many months!  I was a little nervous about leaving Matt with baby Kipp and all the kids but told myself they could manage for a few hours surely without any major tears! Continue reading →

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