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Glen Canyon

TRIP DAY 12 Friday 16th September, 2011 Page, Arizona During the drive from Grand Canyon to Page we started phoning to secure accommodation and realised it was a grouse ...

Hoover Dam, Route 66, and Grand Canyon South Rim

TRIP DAY 10 Wednesday 14th September, 2011 We left Vegas quite early so we could enjoy the sights along the drive to Grand Canyon....

Vegas Diary

TRIP DAY 2, VEGAS DAY 2/9 Tuesday 6th September, 2011 Our priorities in Vegas were to ensure David was adequately prepared for his race in 5 days time,...

Arriving in Vegas

Our arrival into Vegas was the end of a big journey from Perth but the start of our great family adventure of Western USA of 36 days....

Out on the course - Trial Run

Today was a swim and ride the course day. Bugga me this is going to be a tough race. But firstly I went for a run on the treadmill in the hotel yesterday just to stretch the ...

We are in Las Vegas

Well after several flights and not much sleep we have made it to Las Vegas. We arrived last night Monday and picked up the hire car (I will photo it later) and made it to the ...

Photo Comp Voting Rank Formula

I have just installed the ranking system into the photo comps blogs and thought I had better document how the ranking system works to avoid any confusion and argument....

Homeward bound

Sadly our winter escape to Ningaloo has come to an end and we are now on our way home to Perth. Happily, we have rebooked sites for 2013 July school holidays....

Steamed cake success!

I've been thinking for a few days about how to overcome the lack of campfire to bake the cakes, puddings and scones I had come prepared to add to our menu to pad out the ...

Beached whale at Ningaloo

After a day of excitement yesterday we thought it was time to send another update from Ningaloo... a whale calf was found at sunrise washed up on the beach in distress with ...

Glorious days at Ningaloo

We are now settled into our holiday and enjoying the bountiful fishing and good weather. 3 big (over 20kg) Spanish mackerel have been caught but no luck so far with squid....

Sun & Smiles at last

Since our last blog of woe, we have made it to Ningaloo although we've had 2 wet'n windy. nights and there was no joy at camp yesterday. However the clouds have lifted,...

David takes a big JUMP

What did you do on Sunday? I decided to book myself into something I have wanted to do for ages and lucky me was given a gift certificate to go a jump out of a plane from some ...

My Triathlon Event Blogs

I have had a few people ask me about our Triathlon event blogs so thought I would mention in our ExplorOz Blog where our triathlon event blogs have moved to....

Should ExplorOz Create another Trivia CD for 2011?

Anyone who become a Member last year would have received a CD we created full of simple trivia questions and answers - for family incar entertainment....

2010 ExplorOz Christmas Party

The day has started well first wine at 10:20am on the boat from Barrack St jetty. Now 12:00 and at the first winery drank everything offered and Adele couldn't resist the ...

We're going to be at the final Happy Hour of the Dometic ...

ExplorOz has been very proud to be a partner of the "Dometic Follow the Sun Tour" as wishes to advise that we will be attending the End of Tour Party being held in Queensland ...

Food Inventory & Menu

People often ask me what we eat when travelling and so here is our food list from our recent 3 week trip. Word document attached....

Rudall River National Park - July 2010

Continuing on from my last blog here is our story about our trip through Rudall River National Park from Telfer to Newman. Last night after finishing the blog,...

2010 National Gathering Report

The ExplorOz Members National Gathering 2010 was held in Wiluna over 3 days, from 29th June - 1st July. A wonderful turnout of in excess of 120 people made this a wonderful ...

Wiluna to Telfer via Gibson Desert (Photos + Route)

Left Wiluna at 10.15am heading east. Stopped for lunch @ 1ish until 2.30pm at Wongawol Creek. There is a great campsite here on the nor

Our travel plans

Today we leave Wiluna and head out to travel up the Eagle Hwy, Gary Hey to Well 33 on the Canning, then into Ruddal River from the top and the heading out to Newman....

Keeping fit on the road

This trip is in the middle of a heavy training period for me due to my entry in the Capricorn Half Ironman on the 15th August so I need to keep my training up....

Gathering Concludes

Well in a flash it seems the 2010 gathering was brought to a close last night. During the day we had several activities including a couple of presentations from the RFDS On ...

Gathering Dinner Wiluna Shire

Tonight is the dinner hosted at the shire office in Wiluna.