Geelong to Cairns in 9 weeks??

Hey mark! Thanks so much for your reply. The girls have bikes so they love riding, the littleist one is on a balance bike but we have a seat on the back of my bike for her. I stand up paddle board but other than that we are open to anything to knacker the kids out and to see the sites. We just want a relaxing time but with plenty of things to keep the kids occupied. I'm just worried about spending too little (or too long) at places which won't be necessary. I want to do a few over ighters where we can just park and explore and take off the next morning to shorten the drive times but am happy to do a couple of long drives aka 5-6 hr trips. We can free camp in our van for those overnighters. We plan to spend a few days in Sydney/gold coast/Cairns(port Douglas) and maybe Coffs aswell. Just looking for advice as we haven't done such a long trip before. Not so much into hiking as we want to be as the little ones will restrict us. We are planning on returning inland aswell so those locations are just for the way up.

Cheers mate, appreciate your help

I need to condense this to allow for the trip home :(

We are presently working our way down the NSW south coast to Lakes Entrance. We found Merry Beach about 20 minutes north of Batemans Bay had vans right next to the beach with very docile roos grazing everywhere. It is similar to Diamond Head near Laurieton, just south of Port Macquarie.Batemans Bay had a good bike path around the harbour, we saw large stingrays, seals and a dolphins within 1m of the bike path looking for a free feed when a fisherman was cleaning his catch.
Suggest Emu Park or Yeppon instead of Rockhampton they are more holiday themed on the coast.
Ditto Cape Hillsborough instead of Mackay.
If you budget allows, for your kids entertainment stay in caravan parks marketed as Holiday Parks, it will have more activities for them (they'll cost more though).

Thanks so much for the input, have changed a couple of things around to shorten stays at some places. Just to be sure the 9 weeks also includes getting back to geelong. Just looking at all the places i've listed, it seems as though it might be a far fetched and not staying at certain places long enough, any tips on places to skip or stay less at?
This is where I am up to...



Cheers

Your meticulously planned BIL sounds like my wife! Always angst when travelling.
I concur with Bigfish on having flexibility. Apart from the schoolies period, I wouldn't bother booking more than a week ahead.

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"A tick affected dog will ruin your holiday!"
Messes it up a bit for the dog too!! lol