Bad weather but more good silo art!

Hello & welcome to our blog of our 2023 Australian mainland holiday. We have a few overseas followers who follow our adventures, so we are including details of roads & locations as we know they follow us on Google Earth. Today we left Rupanyap and travelled through Horsham and onto Goroke for lunch and to […]

More Silo Art

We have a few overseas followers who follow our adventures, so we are including details of roads & locations as we know they follow us on Google Earth. When we last blogged we were free camped at Avoca. The next day we left the van at our free camp and travelled north to various small […]

Welcome to our 2023 Mainland Holiday Blog.

Hello & welcome to our blog of our 2023 Australian mainland holiday. We have a few overseas followers who follow our adventures, so we are including details of roads & locations as we know they follow us on Google Earth. We left on Sunday June 11th & had a good overnight sailing. Saying Goodbye to […]

We are home!

Hello everyone, We last blogged from the Clare Valley in South Australia where we stayed at Brinkworth for a couple of days. We enjoyed checking out the region and some silo art in Farrell Flats. After leaving Clare, we travelled through Auburn, Saddleworth, Eudunda, Sedan to Mannum on the Murray River. After a nice camp […]

On the run from Covid 19

A LOT HAS HAPPENED SINCE OUR LAST BLOG! Our last blog was from Wonga Beach in North Queensland. We were enjoying our time at the beach but unfortunately I badly tore my calf muscle which severely limited our travels. We cut short our time at Wonga Beach as we had decided to travel home via […]

Enjoying some great weather!

Hi, we left the Isa and travelled east to Cloncurry then down toward Winton. We free camped at Dinosaur Creek with another couple of vans and experienced a fabulous sunset. We travelled on to Winton and visited The Waltzing Matilda Centre which we found very interesting and then it was onto Longreach for a couple […]

Oh No! No Boulia Camel Races for us

In our last blog we advised you we were returning to “the Isa” to get the car serviced. We had the car done, new tyres fitted and headed off. Sadly, we didn’t leave Mount Isa due to mechanical issues. Our car break down in Mount Isa could not have happened at a worse location. We […]

The Dinosaur Trail rocks!!!!!!

Hi everyone,After a couple of nights at the lovely Julia Creek we travelled east to Richmond. Richmond is a small outback town, located halfway between Townsville and Mount Isa, which is essentially a service centre for the surrounding sheep and beef pastoral community. Characterised by a wide main street it is enhanced by its median […]

We are now in Queensland!

Hi everyone,Last time you heard from us we were in a dilemma about what to do with our travels because of the Covid 19 outbreak that occurred in Darwin and thegazetted lockdown.We had left Darwin the day before it was declared a hotspot and locked down. We continued down the Stuart Highway and when we […]