Judy & Brian Tour Oz

 Tweed Heads NSW, July 7 - 14 2026 Moved up from Yamba to Tweed Heads, to the council owned and run park in Dry Dock Road. Probably in our Top 3.  We forsook the mighty M1 for the more sedate and certainly for us, nostalgic A1, aka Pacifc Highway. Just a pleasant dawdle the 160 of kilometres, mostly because we had to be out of Yamba at 10 and couldn't get into Tweed before 2! Anyhow, stopped at Mooball for lunch. Who wouldn't want to stop at a place called Mooball? Mooball was a bright spot on a one-time tedious journey. It's a tiny place, a fleabite actually, but in its day everything was cow-themed. Telegraph poles, garbage bins, street signs the few buildings. After it was bypassed it could have easily died but by a stroke of luck, the government chose to turn the abandoned railway line that runs right beside it, into a Bike Trail. The clever folk of Mooball turned themselves into Bike hire, Bike picnic, Bike outfitters etc etc. The place is alive and doing well i...

  Tweed Heads NSW August 23rd 2024 Koala. Kirra Beach Qld Another 4 1/2 hours of highway hell. Tewantin to Tweed Heads, its just full-on motorised mayhem. Started badly when we very, very, nearly wiped out a bikie, who thought it was smart to swoop past us on the left while I was in the middle of getting back n that same lane after an overtaking move. He must have been doing 130 at least. Just how he didn’t hit us I really don't know. I swerved a bit, he severed a lot. Just plain good luck that I saw him in the side mirror in what would have been the last split second of his life. One always expects the Bruce or whatever it is, “A1” I think is its proper name, to be busy with its four lanes but this year it has been taken to new heights of traffic all hell-bent on being somewhere else as fast as possible. That’s not so bad, I can handle that, but then they closed two lanes about halfway down to put in more lanes and so we were reduced to a crawl for half an hour or so before fi...

Tweed Heads NSW  September 9-13 2016 This has to be the worst trip in Australia - Tewantin to Tweed Heads, 245km of high speed, 3/4/5/6 lane highway mayhem - and may the devil have mercy on your soul.  It’s just full on, from the moment you hit the Bruce at Cooroy to the moment you pull off the Pacific at Tweed Heads, it’s just go, go go. Mind you ,we nearly came undone when we stopped at some totally forgettable roadhouse for some nerve calming medicine. Picture this, you take the exit, go down the off ramp and into a big roundabout. You take the first exist, basically doubling back along the raceway to to the Golden Arches, which turns out to be a whole bunch of little outlets behind the servo. Having regained our composure with the aid of coffee and sticky buns, we headed out again, back down to the roundabout and wait to go straight across, blinker on ready to be taking the second exit. First you have to gun it to get into the gap, and then you back right off for the semi...

Tweed Heads NSW August 21, 2015 Another day, another state. Time to move on again today, and so, in-between showers of rain, we packed up and hit the road. Back out through Eumundi to the Bruce once more, heading south. The rain persisted and made for a more uncomfortable drive than it should be. Somewhat south of Eumundi, just north of Beerburrum we started picking up 2-way radio chat about a truck crash ahead of us and how the road was blocked for 5km or more. As we got closer we understood that only the left lane was getting through but it may as well be completely blocked. Armed with this warning Judy hit the atlas to find us a way round, via Beerburrum and Caboolture, a detour confirmed by the trucks as they too made other arrangements. Just as we came to a halt, the exit appeared and so we along with anyone else with a radio, left the mighty Bruce and headed for the hills. It turns out to be a pleasant drive, and as we like roads less travelled, it suited us fine. We cam...