Well, after ‘conquering’ the Donohue/Plenty Hwy, we arrived in ‘The Alice’ at lunchtime Tuesday. The Plenty Hwy was not too bad, about 50/50; 50% good; 50%5 bad, but you had to concentrate and watch the road all the time, because it changed so quickly. The worst part was the last 60km from Harts Range to…
Next stop Winton, centre of the Australian Dinosaur digs! Not far out of Winton is the Age of the Australia Dinosaur centre, perched up on top a small plateau looking out towards where all the dinosaurs are being found in the farmers fields. Pretty impressive place. They have so many bones discovered that there is…
Off on the next leg to Longreach. It was the longest so far, some 530km. Stopped at Tambo to take a stretch and swap drivers. Plenty of road kill again, and heaps of Kites feeding off them. Susan nearly collected one of them. She seems to attract wildlife! Stopped at Barcaldine for fuel and visited…
We were up relatively early after a good nights sleep. Although we were 20 kms out of Miles the trucks started nice and early. Being a cool night, you could here them roaring up the valley. Those damn Gas companies! First stop, Roma. Had to pick a power supply for the laptop! Susan then drove…
Well, after a good departure time of 9am and lunch on the road just outside Toowoomba we’re at our first night out tonight at a little place called Possum Park, just outside of Miles. It’s an old ammunition depot. It’s strategically placed along the ‘Brisbane line’, where the government had decided to defend the southern half of…
Well after about 12 months of preparation and planning, it’s only 2 weeks before leave. Everything is organised; house sitting all ready, house bills all sorted, camper just about packed, school work just about organised, Susan’s web shop all closed down, found my temp replacement for my work, truck and camper all prepped to go….
During October, we headed up to Boreen Point on Lake Cootharaba (just north of Noosa) for a 3 night weekend with members of our Church community. It was another opportunity to shake-down some extra mods/builds I had done on the camper. Susan had suggested to build a pantry for the camper, and also built a…
For the first weekend of the school holidays we decided to head up to Crows Nest, 30 minutes north of Toowoomba. We left early Friday afternoon and made good time, arriving around 3pm, dodging one of the first thurderstorms of the season. The Park powered sites and cabins were all full with the Carnival of…
For the July 2012 school holidays we set off for a few days to Rockhampton, and then on the way home we spent 3 nights in the Cania Gorge, at the Cania Gorge Retreat. Great little caravan park; nice and quiet; all the basics available, and right next to the walking tracks within the National…
We went to Borumba Deer Park on the May long weekend with a group of people from our church. Borumba Deer Park is near Imbil, Qld. We headed up after school and got there just on dark. The provided the first opportunity to setup in the dark. After debating for 10 minutes which way the…
