The final packup…..Trev and I hitched up the van, drove out of Hidden Valley along their long driveway through rainforest and turned the car south….Wild Adventure II was reaching its conclusion.

We drove south…past the Glasshouse Mountains, through Brisbane…

past the Gold Coast and over the border into NSW…farewell sunny Queensland! Our aim was to get as far as possible down the coast so as to have a fairly easy journey to Sydney the following day so as to catch up with family living on the north side of Sydney in the morning thus driving through the city around lunchtime to avoid peak hour!!

We got as far as Kew and stopped at the free camp there next to the Royal Hotel where we grabbed a meal…

Gordie and Kerry showed up after picking up the squeaky clean and serviced Titan from SCD in Brisbane. The guys there did a great job fixing the “cosmetic” issues including stone chips….and also sorted other bits and pieces including a replacement tyre – Gordie was stoked!! They elected to drive on straight through to home as Kerry had an appointment in the morning so we farewelled them again and settled in for the last night in the van.