My wife and I will be travelling for 14 days from Posrt Douglas to Sydney, with the hunter wine region as a particular focus. Any recommendations on particluar caravan parks along this route?

Dan, if you do a search on the site of the Queensland Auto Assoc. <BR>http://www.RACQ.com.au you will possibly find addresses of their offices where you can get an excellent publication for a few dollars of all the caravan parks and their ratings. <BR>Peg.

Hi Dan, <BR> <BR>Are you actually towing a van or just driving and want to stay in onsight vans/cabins? <BR> <BR>When are you doing this trip? Did you want to take the New England route or the Pacific HWY route from Bribane to Sydney? <BR> <BR>The Hunter vineyard region is split into two distinct areas the Upper hunter vinyards and the Lower Hunter vineyards. Depending on your time restrictions I would recommend focusing on the Lower Hunter vineyard area, it has the most vineyards within cooee of each other whereas the Upper Hunter vineyards are a lot more spread out. <BR> <BR>Here is a website that you might find helpful for the Hunter Valley Wine region: <BR> <BR>http://www.winecountry.com.au/home.htm <BR> <BR>You will find caravan parks listed under accommodation. <BR> <BR>Hope this helps <BR>

We've travelled this route towing a caravan several times. Here are some of our favourites. The Hideaway at Mission Beach - over the road from the beach; Capricorn Palms at Yeppoon near Rockhampton; Cania Gorge for the birds and wildlife; Bougainivillea Caravan Park at Tewantin on the Sunshine Coast; Tallebudegra Creek park on the Gold Coast; Urunga Heads caravan park just south of Coffs Harbour; Anna Bay caravan park at Port Stephens. <BR>Here are websites for two caravan park chains - www.big4.com.au and http://toptourist.contact.com.au. <BR>Be glad to help you with any more information.

Thanks Peg, Paul and Marg: <BR>I will be in a two-berth campervan, leaving Port Douglas on Nov 25, hoping to be in sydney starting Dec 3. We're looking to spend 3 days in the wine region, grab a B&B for at least one night, spend a day touring wineries (any recommendations? - limo, bike, horse carriage, etc) and look for some national parks to hike as well. <BR> <BR>New England or Pacific route: no decisions yet. Figured we'd look at the weather and follow what looked interesting. The lower region of Hunter looks better right now. Thanks for all the web sites!!