Yachtie's Travels
Well finally we have left on our journey around Oz. Our rig consists of a Discovery 4 and Roma 20 ft caravan. Our travels will take us west from Brisbane through Toowoomba along the Warrego highway to Charleville and then north to Lawn Hill west of Gregory Downs via Long reach, Winton and Cloncurry. From Lawn Hill we will travel back to Cloncurry through Mt. Isa, Camooweal, Tennant Creek and then head north to Darwin via Kakadu. We hope to be in Darwin by June.
beatit at Lorella Springs day 38
12/9/12
A million acres to explore now where do you start? Luckily the wonderful people here have made that as easy as possible by having pretty accurate maps of the features with distances. Some of the more distant features include the gulf at 100K which is a serious distance and probably warrants an overnight stay – so we won’t be doing them. Some of the pools are relatively close and we felt it would be a nice trip so a trip to emerald pool and wildfire gorge so these were our pre-lunch destinations.
Burnin up some diesel - Gibb River Road Blog
Gibb River Road
Please check out the pictures section as i am having trouble including them in the bliog.i will put them up later today.
This is my third attempt to write up the Gibb River Road part of our trip. It was 9.30am Friday morning we had just returned from the Horizontal Falls, the highlight of our trip thus far, and still is to today.
Our car had been safely babysat overnight at the resort and we were ready to hit the road.
Burton's Perth to Cape York – Cape Leveque, Broome 9-13 July 2012 Day 101-105
Filling up at the BP Colac Roadhouse in Derby I’m amazed at the dynamics of the place. The BP is packed with locals cruising in old Brock type SS Commodores, all dressed up in cool aviator sunnies and silky American baseball clothing with ball caps facing backwards. Next door at Lytton Park other locals are uninhibitedly brawling on the oval, providing entertainment for yet others haphazardly parked all over the Roadhouse making access to the pumps difficult.
Rosco's dream here we come
Lorella Springs We have arrived!
Last night we camped by a creek on the side of the road, we pulled in after dark and was worried that we would not find a spot to camp but God was looking after us as a family we had met at Kingfisher Camp (Ross had helped him fix his car) stood on the track and guided us into a spot next to them and helped us set up.
Next morning we set off together for Lorella Springs, the road was very corrugated but not as bad as on the Cape.
Lorella Springs
Lorella Springs We have arrived!
Last night we camped by a creek on the side of the road, we pulled in after dark and was worried that we would not find a spot to camp but God was looking after us as a family we had met at Kingfisher Camp (Ross had helped him fix his car) stood on the track and guided us into a spot next to them and helped us set up.
Next morning we set off together for Lorella Springs, the road was very corrugated but not as bad as on the Cape.
Eyre Peninsula Easter 2012
This year we decided that after living in Adelaide for seven years, it was about time to visit the Eyre Peninsula. We had crossed the top of the peninsula on our way to Ceduna a few years ago, but that doesn’t really capture the peninsula. This trip Robyn and I would be travelling on our own, without the kids or friends, which was a change from most trips.
If I had to find a phrase that summed up the trip it would be “being taunted by nature”, but more on that later.
A few to catch up on - June 4th week
23/6 bitter springs to boroloola . then 24/6 Borroloola to kingfisher camp.
We head towards Lorne Hill National park, tracking along the Natione Highway Number one. Or by another name... "Tope Road". It heads along the route of the Savanna Way, and scirts just south of the gulf. As we move from NT into Qld, the road conditions seem to change considerably. It seems that the Qld country raods department ahs forgetten this part of the world.
We pass thru "Hells gate" and then turn south to the Kingfisher camp.
Joel & De’s Big Loop – 9. Savannah Way – Northern Territory Border to Daly Waters
2nd June 2012 – 18th June 2012
So within 5 minutes of crossing into the NT we cross a creek crossing and for once ‘the rock was actually a croc!’ We saw a little freshy sunning itself on a rock. We head to Borroloola then onwards to King Ash Bay, another awesome fishing place (especially if you had a boat). We camped right on the edge of the creek and Joel had fish and the only thing he caught was a file snake. That night we saw massive bush fires, which is normal for the NT.
Roads and Tracks We Have Traveled (Part Five Concluding the Kimberley)
Kalumburu is about 270 klms north of the Gibb River Road and although our party turned south from King Edward River in 2008, Brenda and I had previously visited here in 2002 ( for a week) and again in 2004 when we stayed for just on 3 weeks. It is a place where you really need to spend some time and ideally enjoy fishing and with access to a boat, so rushing up there for an overnight stop was in reality not practical. So initially I will be referring back to those earlier visits.
2011 BIRDSVILLE - THE DOG FENCE - SILVERTON
Via ... CORDILLO DOWNS ROAD, INNAMINCKA, THE DIG TREE, BORE TRACK, CAMERON CNR, STURT NP and the FENCE LINE TO SILVERTON
Wed 7th September – Sat 22nd September
Several months ago we added our names to the trip proposed by Wim (Qld) to travel from the Dig Tree to the EO Annual Gathering at Silverton following the Dog Fence as much as possible.
To join the group we left Birdsville,
Lake Eyre and then where? (Part 3 Western Qld Towns and National Parks)
It was obvious to us that from Birdsville we would need to head east towards Windorah but from there it was to be where the whim of the day took us. In other words we really had no plan for the next few weeks travel. The day before we traveled out towards Big Red but baulked at the 70 klm detour due to the wet conditions (we've already conquered Big Red several times in the past). We drove until we reached water, marveling at the birdlife plying the shallow water. Between the sandhills were expanses of greenery,
