There was excitement in the air the day we were to pull out of the driveway and leave on our first big trip with our new Ultimate camper, “Tex”. We decided to take a couple of photos knowing this wasn’t going to be any easy trip. The plan started with getting to Alice Springs within […]
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 […]
Having first visited Queensland’s Cape York in the early 1990s, there’s little doubt the Old Tele Track run up to the tip of Cape York still provides some challenges today, just as it did on that first trip all those years ago. Taking a trip to the tip of Cape York is far from boring if […]
After spending a few days of non-event fishing at Karumba 😥 , we called into Normanton on our way back to see “Krys”. The original Krys is very famous…a saltwater crocodile killed in the Norman River in 1957 which was a massive 8.63 metres!! Taking photos with the replica, it was hard to comprehend a croc can be […]
It’s time to start our next offroad adventure, and since our last effort in the Kimberley, we’ve bit the bullet and hired a camper trailer for 3 weeks rather than having to tent it. Yes I know, I can hear already some of you saying that we’re soft, but the sleeping so close to the floor […]
Back in Cairns, we hung around here for a few days. We took a day trip up to Kuranda, and enjoyed going up on the Skyrail while spending a few hours looking around before coming back by train. We also had a chance to visit the Cairns Indigenous Art Festival which was on during our […]
So with a bit of shuffling of the plan, we bolted down towards the Gold Coast to beat the school holidays, but first called into Bundaberg to do a tour of the Bundaberg Rum factory. Not a bad tour, especially when you get some samples at the end! Lucky for me Grant was driving :-). We […]
There were heaps of things to see around the Sunshine Coast – we spent almost a day at the Eumundi Markets given it had over 300 stalls, and proved very popular with both tourists and locals. It was great to see a market that actually sold some good quality stuff. We also took a drive up and down […]