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Five Months on the Road through SA and WA. April to Sept 2015

Weeks 1 and 2. Day 1 Monday April 13th. The plan was to stay overnight in Jugiong, a lovely stop off the Hume Highway via a short loop detour,...

El Questro, Lake Argyle and Kununurra and into the Northern Territory. Week 18

Monday August 5th. El Questro. An almost 10 kms return walk starting from near the campground and ending at Champagne Springs occupied our morning. It was through a variety of country,...

First Fishing & Camping in WA, Stokes Inlet five nights & solving some power issues

The black bream have been very willing to become our dinners here at Stokes Inlet. Each day, John and Barry have returned very happily with their bag limit of 6 each but have caught so many more ...

Streaky Bay and Nullarbor Adventures (Week 3)

Week 3. From Streaky Bay to West Oz. On Monday morning (22nd April) we packed up from our overnight camp at Pildappa Rock near Minnipa....

Dryandra Woodlands, Perth & bush camp near New Norcia. (Week 6)

Monday 13th and Tuesday 14th May (2 nights) Dryandra Woodland. Congelin Campground. $5 pp (concession). Near Williams. We have spent two wonderful days here, arriving Monday morning,...

Litchfield, Darwin and Kakadu...Week 19

Monday August 12th. We are very glad we have chosen to stay at the Big 4 Park in Batchelor as it’s a quiet little place and the sites are big and roomy and the pool has been very welcome as a ...

The Scenic Norseman Hyden Road in WA

May 21st 2015 We left Salmon Gums this morning quite early, despite the cold temperature (minus 1 and apparently WA's lowest today) and were in Norseman filling up the diesel tanks by 9....

Broome Bird Observatory Camp and Derby Kimberley Entrance caravan park

gi]Monday July 15th. We arrived yesterday and are staying three nights at the Bird Observatory approximately 24 kms from Broo

WA's Beautiful South West- Kumarl Siding, Esperance, Stokes Inlet Nl Pk. & Millers Point.(Week 4)

Monday 29th April. With our companions deciding to head to Kalgoorlie for a few days, John and I had a lovely day enjoying our last few hundred kms of the Nullarbor....

Mallacoota. Meeting our travelling companions, setting up camp and fishing begins

8th April Departure day finally arrived. Whilst it is not unusual for me to be out of bed long before daylight, John emerged at 6 and,...

Adventures from Mallacoota Vic. to Pildappa rock in SA.( Week 2)

LEAVING MALLACOOTA, VIA IMLAY ROAD TO ADAMINABY. 15TH APRIL. There was rain in the night and this morning the skies were grey so I felt ok about packing up and leaving a few days early....

Photo comp 2015

Three National Parks around Esperance..camping and walking

Cape le Grand is located East of Esperance, approximately an hours drive away, so spending the night before going there is a good opportunity to fill water tanks and stock up on supplies....

Photo Comp 2014

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Millers Point,Kalgan River, Coalmine Beach, & Lake Towerinning. (Week 5.)

Monday May 6th. Millers Point. Camping fee $7.50 p.p. p.n. collected by caretaker. I was hoping to wake to blue skies today but it was not to be....

Useful Road tested travel accessories for caravaners and campers.

There are certain products which we are very happy to have paid for and which make our type of travel so much more comfortable. I've decided to try to write about all these in the one blog and ...

Trilby National Gathering - a (mostly) visual blog

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Queensland and warmer days in Hebel, St George, Lake Murphy and Wuruma Dam

In cloudy skies, we packed up our camp in the Warrumbungles and headed for the Queensland Border via the Castlereagh Highway, passing through Coonamble,...

Exmouth, Rain, Cape Range National Park, wind. Week 12

Monday June 24th. Big 4 Exmouth Cape Holiday Park, almost $40 per night powered, before 10% discount for membership is deducted. Not surprised to wake to persistent heavy showers after hearing ...

Six Nights on the Nullarbor and Puzzling 12 volt Power issues

Nundroo Yalata Camp. Thursday 30th April The prospect of our third East West crossing didn’t diminish my excitement as we left Streaky Bay and turned towards Ceduna....

3rd visit to Millers Point Reserve and 1st to Bremer Bay.

27th May Being only a short detour off the road from our drive to Bremer Bay, we decided to go back and try a third time for black bream at Millers Point Reserve. We were

Mallacoota (days 4 & 5) – lyre birds, UFO’s, more walks, fishing, campfires…..

Thursday (yesterday) began as rather more cloudy. Judy and I walked for a way towards Karbethong Jetty, along the boardwalk and formed track/cycleway whic

First Solo Adventures in The Granny Flat.

June 1st to 8th June 2016 I am back on ExplorOz..and will be writing my travel blogs from hereonin. They are musings and experiences of my travels alone in my new home on

6 Weeks on the Road (Getting to know the Granny Flat)

Friday 10th June 2016 After two busy days at home during which time I packed up GF (Granny flat) with supplies and comforts, I set off to spend 4 nights in the Big 4 Park at Easts Beach Kiama,...

2013 Trip Preparations for WA and NT

One sleep to go…. I am getting very excited and impatient to once again be living in the caravan. This year, tomorrow (Monday 8th) we depart for a week in Mallacoota where we are meeting our ...