Camping, photography and other ramblings
If you said Dryandra, then well done. Yep, with last weekend being a long weekend due to the Queens Birthday holiday, we took another quick trip down to the Woodlands. Taking the Friday off on annual leave, we shot down Read More …
With Spring now blooming with WA’s wildflowers, we decided to do another little long weekender down at Dryandra Woodlands. Dryandra has become a firm favourite spot of ours as it’s only 2hrs from home and also due to the variety Read More …
Leaving Gladstone Bay, Saturday 15/8, it was a leisurely 300km drive, made even more leisurely by the stupid number of caravans and motorhomes heading in both directions. We got stuck behind a cavalcade of five vans, so decided ‘when in Read More …
Our plan is to be at the Murchison River Homestead on Saturday 15/8 to meet up with the guys who are travelling back from Francois Peron. As we had a few days to kill after leaving our camp at Temple Read More …
Wind and dust! Sounds like a title to a Midnight Oil song, but that’s what we faced on our drive from Mt Augustus to Kennedy Ranges, some 270kms away. The wind seemed to get stronger and the dust thicker, at Read More …
With a few days planned at Mt Augustus, we decided to tackle the hardest challenge of the trip being the 12km return ascent to the summit, some 715 metres above the landscape it sits in. Setting off relatively early, it Read More …
Captains log, star date 5th August 2021. The state of Victoria is in stage 5 lockdown, Fatty Palmer is taking W.A. to court to make his life easier, but Mark Man o ’Steel McGowan is keeping us all protected from Read More …
As I write this post, Jules and I were meant to be coming to the end of a 2month trip around the Apple Isle (Tasmania), however, the COVID 19 pandemic stopped that and, in fact, also meant we had to Read More …
Taking advantage of the labour day long weekend, Jules and I shot down to the Dryanda Woodlands for a couple of days with our friend Rodney This is Rodney. Umm no, the one of the left. Yes really…. Having spent Read More …
Dullsville? We don’t think so, and whilst work has been really busy, and quite stressful this week, in our time off, Jules and I have tried to make the most of it. So, this last week has seen us eat Read More …
2018 what a year! It started normally enough, kicking off with our annual, and now repeated, pilgrimage to Augusta for the 2017/2018 Christmas period. We then fell into the usual work/life routine, with of both the girls doing fantastic at Read More …
This is it! This is the last blog post from our recent trip to Cape York and will focus on the statistics rather than the pics, so let’s go. Distance driven: 15,138 km’s Unleaded fuel used: 3,641 litres Total cost Read More …
Broken Hill to home. 2800kms to drive in six, reasonably leisurely days of travelling. It went a lot like this…. Sunday the 30th of September. The first stint was Broken Hill to Catninga Station, which is about 30kms east of Read More …
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 …
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 …