Travel Journal Blogs

Lance & Marion's 2013 Trip

Only 5 days before we head north for the vast desert spaces of Australia's outback via the Oodnadatta track, East and West MacDonnells around Alice,...

Maralinga Trip Wildflowers - August 2012

Australian Deserts are very unique and may be Deserts in name, but given the right conditions will burst into life with displays of vivid colours with some very special ...

Burnin Up Some Diesel - Sixteenth Blog on the road

[Embedded Video] Howdy all, been a while we have been inland and out of range and on the odd day we have been in range I have been feeling lazy....

Maralinga and back to the Anne Beadell Highway

Back in late 2011 I received an email from a fellow EO Member asking me some information about one of the places that he would like to visit during his March 2012 ...

Roads and Tracks We Have Traveled (Part two The Western ...

Planning the trip across the Anne Beadell Hwy, Connie Sue Hwy, The Gary Hwy and back via The Gary Junction Rd brought up some interesting challenges....

Roads and Tracks We Have Traveled (Part one Intro)

This series will be based on our many travels across the continent, but because of the digital support will relate mainly to the last five or six years....

Victoria 2006 – Part 1. Mighty Murray to the Grampians

. We had only been home for just a couple of months after our Simpson Desert and north Queensland trip, before itchy feet got the better of us again....

Baxter Cliffs, Hampton Tableland and some Western Nullarbor ...

The turnoff from the Eyre Highway was about 85 kilometres out of Balladonia Roadhouse, on the right as you head east and I arrived there just before 11am....

30 Days 6600km's

This is our first big ...

Gissy to Cape York

Well the preparation of our 96 300tdi Disco is almost complete...After an offroad trip up the East Coast at the weekend there is a rattle from the roof rack area needs to be ...

Wellsa's Western Adventure

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Road Trip to Broome Part 4 - Broome and the trip home

Tuesday 12th July to Friday 15th July – Broome Broome was lovely. The weather was glorious and we all had a great time getting to know the town....

"Destination Unknown" Day 13 - Cordillo and The Cooper....

July 13th, 2011 Bourke's Grave Site, Cooper Creek SA A most magnificent sunrise was visited upon those of us up early enough to witness it (read “Adult” here)....

Perth to Coober Pedy 16/04/2011-22/04/2011 via Anne Beadell ...

Day 1 - 16/4/2011 We left home at 5am in the dark to avoid the morning traffic. Weather fine and sunny, saw two hot air balloons near York/Northam turn off about 500km out ...

GDEC 2011 - The Anne Beadell & Beyond - Riding the ...

Monday 11th April, 2011 Just near Emu, Great Victoria Desert The night grew cold despite the wind dropping off. Lying awake a couple of hours before dawn,...

New Zealand 2011 - Across the Southern Alps to Hamner Springs.

Wednesday 6th April Hamner Springs. Nestled beneath the Hamner range and Mount Isobel, Hamner Springs is one of those adventure type tourist towns that has the ...

New Zealand 2011- The West Coast - Where Rainforest and ...

5th April 2011 Bottom end of Lake Mapourika Westland (Tai Poutini) National Park Just scenery’d out today. There is just so much to absorb....

Anne Beadell Highway 2010

Anne Beadell Highway Trip 10th – 16th August 2010 After 6 Days on the road since leaving our home in Clare SA, it was time to start our next part of our trip and head back ...

Great Sandy Desert - The McLarty Hills (Day 4 of our quest ...

Saturday 10th July, 2010 McLarty Hills - Great Sandy Desert 19°32'3.44"S, 123°32'39.75"E (58.6 km for the day) Another bleak and grey morning....

Rudall River & Karinjini National Parks June/July 2010

Saturday 19th June. 7am. I, Fred, (driving a 2006 Prado GXL) met up with Peter (and “Molly”, his 1987 HJ60 Series Landcruiser) at Coolalinga before heading off for the “wild ...

The Binns Track and into the Kimberley

We are setting off from Newcastle on 7 June to the National 4x4 clubs gathering in Pomona Qld. From there we will have six vehicles heading West to Innamincka,...

Brief summary of our Big Lap in 2009

The Big Lap 2009 While my Blogs are not yet complete, here is a very brief summary of our 2009 trip from WA through the Northern Territory, Queensland,...

Anne Beadell Highway

Anne Beadell Highway, from Coober Pedy to Laverton First of all the Anne Beadell is NOT a highway. It's a sandy, corrugated,...

Trip to Central Australia - May to June 2006

4/5/06 Thursday – West Wyalong – West Wyalong Caravan Park ($19) Travelled via Harden and Temora to West Wyalong. A beautiful day....

Trip to Kimberley 25 May - 24 August 2003

Trip to Kimberley 25 May – 24 August 2003 25 May – Sunday – Nyngan – Nyngan Riverside Caravan Park ($20.00 en suite) Departed Canberra 9.00 and arrived Parkes 12.30....