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Northern Exposure, Part 6 – Captains Log
We enjoyed our stay at Willow, the only trouble now is that Jo has the bug – everytime she gets out of the car she kicks stones around looking for “stones’….
Northern Exposure, Part 5 – Captains Log
We gave Chester the horse one last carrot and headed up towards Injune for a stop at the showground for the night, a pleasant enough spot with a great sunset. Next stop was Roma...
Northern Exposure, Part 3 – Captains Log
We finally got to the thermal pool at St George and we were the only ones in it – it was an Ok temperature but not much deeper than a bath at home. From St George we travelled up...
Northern Exposure, Part 2 – Captains Log
For our stay at the world-famous town of Carinda (pop 180 – and why world famous…read on) we left a donation to the town for the use of the facilities. The only other people...
Northern Exposure, Part 1 – Captains Log
We stayed in Canberra for days and left after a family breakfast where all the kids helped in making breakfast for all the mums in our family.
NZ Day 16 – Westport to Renwick
Not much to report today, with a bit of rain chasing us out of Westport we headed over the other side of the island. Driving along State Highway 6 it was a slow run for the most...
NZ Day 15 – Hokitika, Greymouth and Pancake Rocks
The day started well, I had breakfast, didn't run out of hot water for my $2 shower, managed to remember to brush my hair and I did my shoe laces all by myself. Where I failed...
NZ Day 14 – Franz Josef Glacier by Helicopter
We experienced substantial snowfall today.
NZ Day 9 – Milford Sound
Let the pics do the talking for today. We had a 7 hour day from Te Anau, the bus that arrived had people on board doing the 13 hour day....
NZ Day 9 – Clifden Bridge to Te Anau
Sunrise - 8.07, sunset - 5.26 pm.
NZ Day 7 – The Catlins and Bluff
Waking up early we had a great sunrise to watch and hopefully catch on pixels. (Note.....early here AND sunrise occurred at 8.04 today...).
NZ Day 3 – Picking up the Campervan
We packed up early and headed from our digs to farewell the Mac's (actually it was the other way around) and headed to change over the little wheels for the holiday bus.... We...
New Zealand Day 1 – Landing in Christchurch
We landed yesterday in the land of the long white cloud with the cloud dumping a bucket of rain from it. We picked up the elcheapo hire car ($150 - 3 days) and took off to the...
The 2024 Grandkid Tour
The weather turned bad reasonably quickly which meant that the night in the underground motel (Whitecliffs) and Camerons Corner would have to wait another year. We changed...
Tassie Part 2 – Devonport to St Helens
Night 2 in the camper this time in the caravan park at Warragul, another cold one outside but comfortable again inside.
Bollon, St George and Mungindi
Heading east we stopped over at the great free camp at Bollon, parked away from the rest with only the chooks and ducks for company – that is until, and despite the acres of room...
Charleville and Morven
With the rain making the camp at Augathella muddy we moved down to Charleville.
Rubyvale to Augathella
Warning - again lots of photos....
Lake Dunn to the Queensland Gemfields
Warning – lots of pictures this time
Longreach and Muttaburra
We were in Longreach only for the night to resupply and then move on, fuel was 235.5cpl and we stayed at the brand new caravan park outside of town on the northside. Only opened...
Adavale, Hell Hole Gorge and Isisford
After Quilpie we headed for the off the beaten track little town of Adavale.
Broken Hill to Quilpie
So its been a few weeks since the last update!
Trundle, Perth and the Indian Pacific
Leaving Canberra after a few days we headed to Trundle about an hour west of Parkes and stayed in the showground along with a couple of travellers - the place is so big we were...
The Menindee Week
As you know we rolled into Menindee on the Monday morning and straight into work. The handover from Michael, met Ted and Karl and then toured the spots we had to go and check on....
The J's 2022 Get Away – Part 1
A repeat - for some reason FB didn't like the way I did the first post. So here it is again - apologies (but harder to do in FB....)