TIME ELAPSED SINCE DEPARTURE : 1 YEAR AND 4 WEEKS DISTANCE TRAVELLED : 35,170 KMS Rowes Bay Beach, Townsville TOWNSVILLE TOWNSVILLE has been a real surprise. What a great town (city?)! It has a stretch of about two kilometres of waterfront area called The Strand that is fabulous with sandy beaches, lush shady parks, tremendous swimming enclosures, …
TIME ELAPSED SINCE DEPARTURE : 1 YEAR AND 2 WEEKS DISTANCE TRAVELLED : 32,026 KMS Great view from the swimming pool Lake Argyle LAKE ARGYLE The route from El Questro to LAKE ARGYLE passes through the town of KUNUNURRAand across a dam wall that holds back the ORD RIVER. I did not know that The Ord was dammed in …
TIME ELAPSED SINCE DEPARTURE : 48 WEEKS DISTANCE TRAVELLED : 28,650 KMS Sunset 80 Mile Beach 80 MILE BEACH Eighty Mile Beach is off the Great Northern Hwy (Highway 1) via a dusty, occasionally corrugated red dirt road. Given our experience with corrugations on dusty side-roads off the Nullarbor back in May, I really don’t …
TIME ELAPSED SINCE DEPARTURE : 44 WEEKS DISTANCE TRAVELLED : 24,804 KMS Desert Wildflowers Leaving Geraldton, I had a sense of scepticism and uncertainty. Of a couple of things. Firstly, it was of the great unknown. We were entering the wild frontier of the central and northern parts of WA. HUGE distances. Remoteness. Harshness. Not a place to get …
TIME ELAPSED SINCE DEPARTURE : 40 WEEKS DISTANCE TRAVELLED : 21,920 KMS Bremer Bay BREMER BAY The small and quiet fishing & tourist town of BREMER BAY is rather ramshackle in layout but nonetheless set in a beautiful area. (Sooz: Calling it a town is generous…A pub, a general store/petrol station and a brewery.) It’s …
TIME ELAPSED SINCE DEPARTURE : 39 WEEKS DISTANCE TRAVELLED : 19,680 KMS Driving the Nullarbor Plain THE CROSSING : NULLARBOR PLAIN This legendary piece of Australian turf is everything that you have heard about, but it’s so much more. Yes, there is no question that, as per it’s Latin name, it is flat and treeless. But only …
TIME ELAPSED SINCE DEPARTURE : 37 WEEKS DISTANCE TRAVELLED : 18,890 KMS Coffin Bay COFFIN BAY The short 45km journey from Port Lincoln to COFFIN BAY takes you across the bottom of the Eyre Peninsula to the western side. Famous for its very big (Sooz: and yummy!) oysters in a pristine environment consisting of a …
TIME ELAPSED SINCE DEPARTURE : 32 WEEKS DISTANCE TRAVELLED : 15,740 KMS The road through Innes NP Firstly, a special thanks and a big cheerio to Manly, NSW locals and friends Dr Bruce Williamson and his lovely lady Ali who combined to help me deal with a nasty infection on my chest after having another skin cancer removed …
TIME ELAPSED SINCE DEPARTURE : 26 WEEKS DISTANCE TRAVELLED : 12, 100 KMS Mutton Bird Island THE GREAT OCEAN ROAD After getting off the Spirit of Tasmania, we turned left to head west. That means squinting into the afternoon sun. First stop was Peterborough which is a bit of a dreary hamlet situated on …
TIME ELAPSED SINCE DEPARTURE : 23 WEEKS DISTANCE TRAVELLED : 10,200 KMS Queue to board the Spirit of Tasmania GETTING THERE Getting onboard the Spirit of Tasmania for a daytime crossing is a process and it means an early start. The ship sails at 8.30 am, but you have to be there no later …