Best Way To Travel From Sydney to Cairns?

Question

I will be travelling this route from 19th Jan 2008 to 9 Feb 2008 and was looking to possibly follow this itinery:

Cairns for - 2 nights
Mission beach - 1 night
Airlie beach & whitsunday islands - 2 nights
Hervey bay & fraser island - 2 nights
Noosa - 2 night
Brisbane - 1 nights
Surfers Paradice - 2 nights
Byron Bay - 2 nights
Coffs Harbour - 1 night
Port Macquarie - 1 night
Port stephens - 1 night
Sydney - 3 nights

Its one of three options

Car rental and hotels
Campervan

Will I really have the time to travel all that distance or will I need to fly some of the way?

Answer 1

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Loads of time but it seems like you are ticking off all the main attractions along the way. My advice is to relax so you can allow time to enjoy your visit. Sail around around the Whitsundays. Try a 3 or 4 day stay at a farm inland from Rockhampton, thats if you like horses, quad bikes, the outback, pet kangaroos, herding cattle, and sleeping under the stars. From your itinery mabe not. Anyway enjoy your trip.

Answer 2

Bags of time. Have fun.

Answer 3

sounds wonderful and achievable

Answer 4

campavan

Answer 5

Thats loads of time. Buy a campervan in Cairns and then sell it on in Sydney. It seems you've got your itinery sorted. My advice is try not to stick to it too rigidly. If you concentrate on having to be somewhere on a particular date you won't relx and have as much fun. The east coast of Aus is great. Whatever way you do it you'll have a great time.