It’s 6am on a Sunday, I’m sitting on the loo counting the seconds while the test does its thing. I watch the positive symbol slowly appear and strengthen over the next minute. My hands are shaking. My heart leaps, then sinks, and there it stays - complete despair.

A couple of lists for anyone in the planning stages of a trip such as ours. My top recommendations for things to have on your adventure.

It’s the talk of the town. I get this question the most. Fair enough too, when I was trying to figure out how to plan for this trip it was one of the top two questions I had. The other was “When is whale shark season in Ningaloo?”.

I’m no Nigella, but boy do I love to eat! We’re more limited in the van, so meals got simpler and quicker but no less pleasing to the tastebuds. Here are some of our favourite meals suited to life on the road.

Sore thighs and happy eyes. A hike up and out to some of the most dramatic views I’ve ever seen.

I've got two spectacular days and nights on Gunggandji Country for the nature lovers and snorkelling fans. You can do a day trip from Cairns but if you can spare the time to camp here or stay in the resort, then you MUST! It's at its most beautiful once the day crowds go home and everything gets quiet.