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Fussell Family Simpson Adventure - Driving through the rain to Quilpie

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The rain hit in the afternoon. At one point the rain was so heavy that I could only do 60k (40mph) despite the outback road being straight, with hardly any traffic....

Created: 16 Jun 2015 01:00 Views: 1233

Fussell Family Simpson Adventure - Parkes to Comeroo

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Tonight we're staying on an outback station called Comeroo. They have cows, sheep, goats and camels. They also have a bore with 44C water flowing from a 1m high stand pipe into a pond....

Created: 15 Jun 2015 07:30 Views: 1464

Fussell Family Simpson Adventure - Sydney to Parkes

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An easy travelling day today. Over the Blue Mountains, through Bathurst, Orange, Molong, and stopping at Goobang national park, Wanda Wodong campsite. (North of Parkes)....

Created: 14 Jun 2015 03:00 Views: 1949

Ready to depart - Fussell Family Simpson Adventure

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Hi, Tomorrow morning we’re heading off on our Simpson Desert Adventure. We’ve been aspiring towards this for a number of years now,...

Created: 12 Jun 2015 11:48 Views: 2097

Finishing our SA Eyre Peninsula trip.

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Last night we listened to the grunts and calls of a male koala as he patrolled the area we camped in at the MIA 1 national park. Today we're packing up for the final time as we push on to ...

Created: 07 Oct 2013 01:00 Views: 2504

Murrumbidgee River

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Today we left mungo national park via Balranald. Then headed east along the Sturt Highway. We stopped for lunch next to the river at Hay at "the long paddock trail"....

Created: 06 Oct 2013 00:00 Views: 2876

Mungo National Park

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We drove from Wentworth to Mungo viaThe Darling Run and Top Hut Road. Top Hut Rd was really rough with half the clay capping worn away. We camped at main camp. There were lots of people here,...

Created: 05 Oct 2013 00:00 Views: 3605

Mount Ive to SA Riverlands

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Today we started to head home. Out of the red dirt from the Gawler ranges and heading east to Sydney. Our planned overnighter at Redbanks Conservation Park looked pretty average and with no ...

Created: 03 Oct 2013 00:00 Views: 2491

Day at Mt Ive Station

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We spent today going around the flight path track of Mt Ive station. The station has a few treks of between 1 to 4 hour treks, that are all written up in a binder that they lend to you....

Created: 02 Oct 2013 00:00 Views: 2063

Going to Gawler Ranges (Mt Ive station)

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A fairly sleepless night with wild winds in SA. Packed up, took the slow track out of memory cove, and resupplied at port Lincoln. Hitting the road was hard as the whole family was tired....

Created: 01 Oct 2013 00:00 Views: 3398

2 Days at Memory Cove

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Nice place. On Sunday it was stunning weather. The kids played on the whiter than white beach, and we relaxed. We went for a nice walk to the point and Tony had some more Coffin Bay oysters....

Created: 30 Sep 2013 00:00 Views: 2820

Travel to Memory cove

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Mainly a travel and resupply day. Katie and Jacqui did some girl powered canoeing on coffin bay early. The boys washed some of the mud off the patrol. A drive back to port Lincoln, shop,...

Created: 28 Sep 2013 00:00 Views: 2567

Leaving Coffin Bay National Park

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We're still in Coffin Bay National Park. We woke up today to a bit more wind and thought we'd move out. Low tyre pressu

Created: 27 Sep 2013 00:00 Views: 3273

Day trip to Sir Isaac Point

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Last night we were hit by high winds and rain at our Morgans Landing campsite. I thought this site would be more protected from the south westerly winds,...

Created: 26 Sep 2013 00:00 Views: 2933

Coffin Bay national park

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Today, we had to move early. The tides on Coffin Bay National Park seven mile beach are low at 8:30am. Up at piccaninnie dawn (just before sunrise) and away. We s

Created: 25 Sep 2013 00:00 Views: 4140

A day exploring Port Lincoln National Park

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Today we travelled around the park a bit. We really liked the beach at September beach, but not so much the campsite (a bit too formalised). Fisherman's point looked good,...

Created: 24 Sep 2013 00:00 Views: 2940

Seafood at Spalding Cove

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On Sunday at Port Lincoln we couldn't get seafood as the fish markets were shut. Today Jacqui thought we'd give it a go ourselves. As the tide went out, the pippies looked plentiful....

Created: 23 Sep 2013 00:00 Views: 2419

2 days of driving, but we're now on the Eyre peninsula

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On Saturday we drove from Renmark and made our way around to the Eyre peninsula. On the way we stopped on Peterborough for lunch at the [url=https://www.facebook....

Created: 22 Sep 2013 00:00 Views: 2376

Hay to Murray sunset national park

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A spot of overnight rain caught us out, as we had left the tent fly off to save time. The kids woke us up as water was dripping on them and more importantly their pillow pets....

Created: 20 Sep 2013 00:00 Views: 3304

Sydney to Murrumbidgee river.

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After leaving Sydney at 6am, the Fussell family drove, and drove. We stopped at the Coolac store, just off the Hume hwy. Tony remembers this not long ago as being the main road....

Created: 19 Sep 2013 00:00 Views: 2907

Our Trip to the Eyre Region September 2013

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Hi, This year we're going to the Eyre Region of SA. Our Plans are to see Port Lincoln National Park, Coffin Bay National Park and Gawler Ranges....

Created: 15 Sep 2013 11:03 Views: 3162

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