The escape committee had been meeting under the over of darkness for YOL (year of lockdown) and undetected by the scrutiny of the government virus guards. We were lucky, as to have been caught would have resulted in anal covid checks by the evil Dr Carrotfinga. That would have been fate far worse than the…
View More24th June Gladstone is a major industrial city. It boasts to be the fourth largest coal exporting port in the world and also loads aluminium and natural gas on its huge and many wharves and super jettys. Named after William Gladstone the prime minister who stated “If you are cold, tea will warm you; if…
View MoreWe headed for a semi bush camp just south of the Deepwater National Park called Deepwater Dreaming. The property had a huge open paddock with the old homestead plum in the middle , then there was the national park to the north and virgin rainforest for a kilometre to the isolated beach. There were walking…
View MoreMaryborough Burnett Heads and Hervey bay June 16th June Maryborough is the traditional home of the Gubbi Gubbi and Wakka Wakka tribes. In 1840 it became one of the main ports for colonialists entering Queensland from across the world as well as producing coal for the growing state. It also lays claim to be the…
View MoreInskip Point is just above Rainbow Beach and less than 1 k from Fraser Island (the largest sand island in the world ) . Inskip is a huge campsite spread over about 5ks . We are finding getting bush camps that are dog friendly pretty difficult and this is the best so far. We managed…
View MoreOur next stop was on the Hastings river upstream from Port Macquarie on the Riverlodge Park campground. Weather is still challenging us with rain and wind intermittently impacting on our plans. The locals had themselves sat around an oil drum fire with music blaring contemporary Australian music (i.e rock from the 80s !) As the…
View MoreWe dropped into Tweeds head river retreat campground. Usual lickety split set up and we were off for a 10k walk into town . When we got there there was a Rock On festival which is a blend of suped up roadsters and 50s rock and roll. We forced ourselves to have a drink and…
View MoreFriday 24/5 . Arrived at Shoalhaven heads two timber caravan park in glorious sunshine . Bish bash bosh and the van was set up . Good walk round town located the dog friendly beach and the local pub . Beers and step targets achieved . Following day on advice from neighbours we went to 7…
View MoreA tale of Coggas Dogga and Wagga Wagga So Antique Teenagers 2 or return of the Silver Warriors is underway. Our preparation was much better and less pressurised this time around . Caravan fully serviced , inside deep cleaned and storage in the car optimised. Detailed investigation and unn-erring conviction to having a well planned…
View MoreIn the last few days of our trip we did our best to balance avoiding the rain which was sweeping down from the Northwest. We spent a couple of days in on the edge of a Billabong in Dimboola (the title of my next hit song) . Lazy few days spent playing games reading ,…
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