Our Australia trip

With only 250km of bitumen between us and Sydney, we decide that this was our last stop before we go and help Niki and Nic. We say goodbye to the wildlife. And drive off in the mist. Suddenly we realise that we have had all states but ACT, so we decide to correct that error. […]

From here onwards we have seen the coast of NSW already a couple of times before from when we were living in Sydney. We used to go camping with the Mulders and friends, stayed at Jervis bay a couple of times and also with Nicolet and family we have stayed on this coast. So instead […]

From Genoa we are driving further north along the coast. We have spoken to Niki and Nic and they will be moving house during Easter weekend. Afraid that they are underestimating the amount of work involved in packing and moving after you’ve lived in a place for a couple of years, we decide to do […]

Our day didn’t start that well. Just before turning the lights off and go to sleep, Dotti got an epileptic fit and was anxious to go to sleep alone in the front of the bus. We made a makeshift bed near the foot end of our bed so Dotti would feel closer to Nossi (who […]

Over the last 17 years and even more so during the last 10 months we have enjoyed the company of Dotti, our loyal Kelpi x Cattle dog. Niki brought her home one day from a horse camp and Dotti has been the leader of our pack of dogs over the years. During our trip around […]

We can smell the coast again and have had enough of 20 kph going up hill and not much faster engine-braking the other side down again. So we aim for a spot close to the ocean. The wind has picked up to about 80 kph and it pushes us further east. I’m sure this does […]

From Smoko we follow the road towards Omeo. Well that was the plan anyway until we met a chatty guy (the one with the cowboy hat and the colourful vest). He told us a story that the road was under repair from the recent bush fires and following land slides and that we really should […]

It was kinda sad to leave Black Man’s Creek, but when you’re out of supplies and miles away from a village then there’s not much choice. We were not game enough to start hunting for our own supplies and even then, even if I would’ve been able to capture a cow I have no clue […]

You can imagine that we didn’t like to stay another day at Lake Eildon. I’m sure that after enough rain the location can be really nice when the ground is covered with some growth and the lake full with water. But like its now there’s not much attraction. So we say goodbye to the lake […]

We arrive in Melbourne before sunrise and the whole deck is still damp and covered in salt crystals. It must have been a rough crossing with lots of salt water spray. When we moor everything is calm though. After reuniting with the dogs and the bus we are on our way through sleepy Melbourne. We’re […]