Month: August 2016

  Hi there, another glorious day at the Lightning Ridge…….today, we undertook a number of self drive tours. They are free self drive tours, mostly on gravel roads. They are an initiative of the Lightning Ridge Tourist Association & take from 20 to 45 minutes. There are red, green, yellow & blue car door tours […]

  Well we left Cobar & travelled up to Bourke & then onto Brewarrina where we free camped on the Barwon River. Today we drove 225 km to Lightning Ridge which is famous for black opal. Some of you may recall that we visited the ” Ridge ” last year & we are back because we have […]

Hello everyone & thank you for reading our blog. Tonight will be our last night in Cobar before heading further north. Cobar shire is the same size as Tasmania but only has a population of 7,000. It is situated on the crossroads of The Barrier Highway & the Kidman Way. It is a prosperous town with […]

Our first today was GOOLGOWIE Situated at the crossroads of The Kidman Way & Mid-Western Highway this village was settled in 1925 because of the railway line. For many years this area has been a wheat farming and grazing area but in the last decade there has been diversification into walnuts, grapes, lettuce and cattle […]

 THE KIDMAN WAY Our plan is to travel the Kidman Way which is named after Australia’s largest station property owner, Sir Sydney Kidman. The road is all sealed & stretches from Jerilderie in the south to Baringun just shy of the Queensland/New South Wales border. It is a good insight into outback Australia with many […]

After getting a fridge & car issue fixed in Mornington we departed the caravan park around midday & made our way back to Melbourne & then through Seymour  & the back of Shepparton to just short of Tocumwal. We free camped at a delightful location on the Murray River named Finley Beach.

Hi, thank you for reading our blog & following our trip. Friday 19/8/2016 Up early & finished loading the vehicle, said goodbye to the neighbours, secured the house & set off at 10:00 am. The weather was overcast but by the time we hit Campelltown it was raining. Our interim destination was Hillwood which is […]