Trip 20, part 15 – Broken Hill
Well we can now say we’ve been to both Bourke and Broken Hill. Two towns in the middle of nowhere that are well known to us, but that we’d never visited. We had planned to spend a couple of nights Read More …
Month: September 2018
Trip 20, part 14 – Lightning Ridge
We’re now well and truly on our way home, having left Sapphire, passing through for an overnighter at a WikiCamps freecamp in Roma, before hitting Lightning Ridge for a couple of nights. << Photo credit: Jules – Our freecamp just Read More …
Trip 20, part 13 – All that sparkles is probably gems!
Always part of the planned itinerary, we dropped into the Central Queensland Gemfields region, surrounded by the towns Sapphire, Rubyvale and Emerald. Pre-visit I’d done some Googling and learnt that like the Lava Plains, the Sapphires here are plentiful, but Read More …
Trip 20, part 12 – What’s the plural of Platypus?
That’s the question for this blog, as from where I’m sitting at the van, I can often see more than one of the little and very cute buggers swimming around…. in the wild…. in the Broken River. Oh, and by Read More …
Trip 20, part 11 – It’s a Barbie world!
This is the story of Barbie and her three Kens. Barbie is very beautiful and is lucky to have three Kens in her life. There is Taken, so called because of his love for Tay Tay and his use of Read More …
Trip 20, part 10 – A day out in the Atherton Tablelands
Now we’re on our ‘slow’ way home, we’ve got lots of one day stops in the towns along the way. The first of which being Atherton, not far from Millaa Millaa where we stayed on the way up. << An Read More …
Trip 20, part 9 – Mission accomplished!
Everyone, and I mean everyone, we’d spoken to had said that the road to “The Tip” was shite. Really corrugated with large patches of bulldust etc… Well, we struck it lucky. Recently graded, there was probably a combined 40kms of Read More …
Trip20, part 8 – Daintree Rainforest, bucket list item #2, ticked!
Much like scuba diving the Great Barrier Reef, visiting the Daintree Rainforest was bucket list item #2 for me on this trip. Alby Mangels and the Leyland Brothers excited me about travelling, Harry Butler taught me respect for our bush Read More …
Trip 20, part 7 – The big bust up…..
That’s it, the final straw has been drawn and we’re ditching BJ and Rod. We thought we could make it through the trip travelling together, but there comes a time when enough’s enough and you need to part ways. This Read More …