I'm going down under for vacation ... Advice ??

[Jumperalex]

Hi all. My wife and I are taking our honeymoon to Australia in Sept. The bulk of the plan has us arriving in Cairns on the 12th to scuba dive on the Reef Encounter live-aboard (www.reeftrip.com) for 3 days. then we will be in Sydney on the 22nd and leaving to come home on the 24th.

That means we have from the night of the 15th to the 22nd to travel from Cairns to Sydney. The plan is to do it using the "East Coast Discovery" rail pass which gives us unlimited stops between Cairns and Sydney.

so the question is: where might you guys recommend we stop along the way.

We are more into outdoors "small" stuff than we are big tourist places. A beach that is quiet might be nice, maybe a place to stay while we take a day trip a little bit inland, WINE COUNTRY, stuff like that.

I'm just looking for advice from the folks who live there beyond what we might find in the travel books.

Oh yeah and if there is a good race (motorcycle or rally) along the way that might be fun

[imajo]

oh yeah geeez just stick to the road next to the beach, you'll have no trouble finding a nice quite beach somewhere.

Cairns ----> Sydney lots of places along the way, plenty of tourist info places along the way where you can drop in and find something to do.

no idea (im in melbourne) I usually lie on the beach all day and go out at night.
Weather will be good though. If you come down Sept 18-19 is the Motorbike Expoo.

ENJOY OZ!!!!

[Jumperalex]

18-19th huh ... my birthday is the 18th Might have to look into that. what do you know about the Suburu Rally that is "supposed" to be in canbera in that timeframe? We found it only saying that it was an event during our trip but we couldn't find the actual date [shrug]

anyway thanks for the tips.

anyone else have something to add ?

[imajo]

well happy birthday for the 18th.
I think thats the Australian Rally - I know the WRC is in perth.
should google it