Camping, photography and other ramblings
This year’s Easter and ANZAC Day public holidays provided the perfect opportunity to take three days’ annual leave to get a ten-day break. Although we took four days to ensure we missed the mass exodus on Easter Friday, getting away Read More …
Things change. This year particularly so, as on our annual Chrissy camping trip to Augusta, Georgia was unable to join us as she’s now “out on the beat,” keeping us civilians safe, working as a Police Officer with W.A. Police. Read More …
Our period of extended leave is rapidly approaching its end, with work back on the agenda from early Jan ’25… 🙁 We did, and could continue to, get used to this life of luxury, where an alarm did not set Read More …
A bit of a lengthy post this one, in terms of km travelled, more so than words. Leaving the Flinders Ranges we managed to tick off another Aussie travel icon that’d been on our “To Do” list for many years Read More …
We had a choice. Today is the 20th of July, we’re currently in Canberra and need to be in Darwin on the 15th of August. There are two major routes we could take, each with pros and cons; We went Read More …
Entering our 4th (counting WA) state and 1st territory of our trip, we crossed the Vic/NSW border on the Princes Hwy today, aiming for our campsite at Merimbula Lake Holiday Park. Jules found a “stay 4 nights, pay for 3″ Read More …
The Gippsland Region of Victoria is large when considered against the total size of Victoria. It provides a huge diversity of landscapes, from coastline and beaches, rainforest, woodlands, alpine snowfields, lakes and floodplains and acres of fertile farmland. And it’s Read More …
A downside of living in Australia is the massive distance between states, and with my sister and her family, and my mum and dad both living in Victoria, we don’t get together that frequently. So with that in mind, we Read More …
Let me take a moment to say a word about South Australia’s roads. F#cking atrocious! Oops, that’s two words, but the first word aptly describes how bad they are. Almost every road we’ve driven on in South Australia has been Read More …
People. People everywhere we look. People everywhere we go. And then there are these little people running around as well, yelling and screaming – I think they’re called “children”.. Sucks to be us, but that’s what happens when you park Read More …
Waking up to the Black-Eyed Peas being blasted by the local community gym, we were up, packed and on the road before dawn, heading for our mid-morning appointment with some cephalopods. Reaching up to 60cm in length and 5kg in Read More …
I’ll start by stating the Gawler Ranges aren’t what I expected. Don’t get me wrong, they are beautiful and spectacular, but I had another vision in my head of what to expect and the reality and my vision didn’t match. Read More …
Right, let’s kick on with the Eyre Peninsula leg of the trip. For those not familiar, the Eyre Peninsula is the big Southward pointing triangle of land, cornered by Ceduna in the Northwest, Port Augusta in the Northeast and Port Read More …
We’ve been away one full week now, spending that time by ourselves, in WA. But now it’s time to head towards SA and en route we’ve caught up with a few people of interest. 1st person was BJ (Big Jeff), Read More …
Located 115km north of Southern Cross, Bungalbin is a banded ironstone formation (BIF) range that sits above the surrounding plains of the western woodlands. Luckily, the locals and some environmentalists fought and won a case against a mining company that Read More …