>>1496705Two months of “camping” in campgrounds and at various beaches that allow it in a rented van on the east coast in the north as far as Cairns is totally viable and not uncommon.
Two months of actually camping in the bush, north of Cairns on Cape York Peninsula... is doable, thousands of people do it every year, but if you’re a beginner it’s not the best place to start - it’s remote, there are massive gaps between phone signal, and the good places are hidden away and on the other side of some fairly challenging off road tracks. Wildlife by and large won’t hurt you - don’t swim at all in creeks and waterholes unless locals are explicitly telling you they’re safe- and swimming there with you lol- and unless you can physically see it’s not possible for a crocodile to be there - fast flowing shallow creeks with rocky or sandy bottoms you can see, kinda thing. If you swim on beaches, find out if it’s jellyfish season cos they’re lethal. Snakes aren’t bad as a rule - almost all of them will fuck off from you when they hear you coming; there are two exceptions and they happen to be very poisonous but common sense will stand in the way of you getting bitten - don’t go walking in deep scrub barefoot, and watch where you put your feet.
Spiders are cunts and can burn as far as I’m concerned but there’s only a couple that can actually fuck you up or kill you, and the deadly kind is not really found up the Cape. You’ll see fucking big huntsmen and they are cunts that deserve a boot but they can’t kill you.
There’s a laundry list of other shit that will hurt badly or kill but most of it is fairly uncommon in the more visited areas. Don’t wipe your arse on a plant/tree with heart-shaped leaves. Don’t cuddle a platypus. We haven’t lost a tourist to a drop bear in the last decade in Queensland.
tl;dr- Sealed roads north to Cairns/Port Douglas: easy. Heading north of there? Not sure I’d recommend it not knowing your experience.
