When your camping trip is coming to an end and you’re still a couple days away from getting home, what do you do when food supplies are looking a bit thin and there’s no supermarket for the next 500kms? When you’ve either got a few leftovers to use up, or there’s not a huge selection […]
As we spend a lot of time travelling which often includes to the more remote regions for weeks at a time, it’s not a simple exercise to just whip down to the local shops to pick up a loaf of bread. Nor do we have the room to travel with a dozen or so loaves. […]
If you’re already an Ultimate Campers owner, there’s no doubt you know why having one is so good. So how did we come about to become Ulti owners? Here’s our story. Like most Ultimate owners, we love travelling around Oz – whether it’s to take in pristine beaches, wide sweeping plains, red desert sands or […]
After collecting our Ultimate Camper and spending a few nights locally in Moruya, the drive back home also provided some valuable time to get to know our Ulti. To say we were really looking forward to our first real big adventure with the Ultimate (now nicknamed Tex after the letters in our numberplate), was an […]
Time to continue our trip on the Darling River Run with our first stop being Menindee. The road was dirt all the way through except for 7kms in the middle, and after driving the 130kms on a bundle of corrugations with the van on the back, we were more than happy to see the black top given […]
We ended our last post indicating we were experiencing a storm in Menindee which was welcomed by all, but unfortunately for us, the amount of rain received put a dampener on us continuing the Darling River Run as the dirt roads we needed to travel on were closed. We hoped after a day or two that the roads […]
Ran, rain, and more rain….when will it end (aahhh)!!! We had a wry smile the other day when we had heard that SA was experiencing some hot weather, when the average temperature this week for us in Outback Queensland has been no more than 24º…not what the locals had expected (nor us), and it’s definitely not helping […]
This leg of our trip sees us trek further north to Barcaldine, and from there west to Longreach and Winton. The road in between Barcaldine and Longreach was closed the day before we came through due to rising floodwaters, but lucky for us on the day we drove through it was open with “caution”. As it turns out, […]
We arrived in Emerald which is a service centre for all of the mining industry surrounding the town (coal and sapphires). We decided to come this way to try a different route going home….bad idea!!! On our first night, we basically got washed away with 162mm of rain being recorded in the park. We knew rain was […]
Leaving Griffith and travelling further south, we sadly only had another two stops before arriving home. The run from Griffith to Echuca went really well with very little traffic all the way except for a plague of locusts – did they make a mess to the front of the Paj! We decided to stay on the NSW side […]