Our Australia trip

I broke my own rule and published Granite Gorge and then we decided to stay another day. I can always say that we only decided to extend this morning, but in truth we decided that last night after seeing the weather forecast. In Mareeba it would be sunny all day where everywhere else it would […]

We woke up close to midnight and Marjo said “burglars”. Now is there not a lot to steal and if it actually was a burglar (s)he would have bumped any part of their body three times, stepped on the dogs and landed in our bed. Unless they of course wanted to take our chairs or […]

Instead of writing every day, I figured I could just write per location. You probably don’t read every day and then you can read all about our experiences in one, longer, post instead of over several days. I’m sure we’ll read the comments if you don’t agree with this new, unanimously accepted, policy. Leaving Toomulla […]

Hydeaway Bay was nice but we need to move on if we want to see the rest of this continent. We have now more than 4,000 km covered but it feels we have not done a lot, apart from writing blogs. No, that is not true, we have seen actually quite a bit and enjoyed […]

Well, we slept good. After a noisy evening from the surrounding caravans, we had an actually very restful sleep. Nevertheless we were not regretful to pack up and leave early. We had our mind set on Hydeaway Bay and Dingo Beach. The GPS tried its trick again and almost succeeded. It wanted us to continue […]

Strange day. It started with rain, again. We packed up, Marjo made breakfast so I could get up a little later. Fed the dogs, had a shower. While Marjo prepared the inside, I packed away dog beds, chairs, table, rolled up and stowed the fly screens, packed away the tarp to avoid mud in front […]

The rain had stopped in the morning and we decided to celebrate by a second day at Travelers Rest. This is actually a nice camping, the grey nomads keep to themselves at the powered sites and sit in the camp kitchen to talk about the hippies (us). We are the only campers on the grass, […]

The days become a bit of a blur. Must be the alcohol. To be honest, we have been very modest with alcohol. One drink a night and not even every time. Our memory still works though and we can remember the trucks and sugar and coal trains passing by the camping very well. Don’t these […]

The rain had stopped overnight and although there was no sun, the day seemed to start well. Then I opened the fridge and although not as warm as the 20 degrees early morning outside (yeah, the weather has definitely improved temperature wise) it was not the required 4 degrees or so. Malfunction. First things first […]

We woke up with rain, as forecasted. We were prepared and had everything already packed up so we could leave early. A ‘family’ of four takes time though. Breakfast, washing, emptying toilet cassette, etc., so it was not until after paying for our fifth night and after 8.30 am that we drove from the campsite. […]