Our Australia trip

From Pioneer campground we decide to go to Burnie where the Makers are promoted and so we drive past more valleys till we reach the ocean again (mind you, all that in less than half an hour). The Makers is an initiative to promote local industry and specifically those that produce unique items. So there’s […]

If there’s no kiting to be had then we’ll better move on. Kidding, the location is nice but quite exposed to wind, sun, the railroad track and the road. Also we want to explore more and after the coast it’s time to try a little inland. To do that we backtrack a few kilometers and […]

At 5.45 am we got woken up to get ready for disembarkation at 6.30 am sharp. We showered, left the cabin and got the dogs back into the bus. They had behaved very well but were both quite tired the whole day. Not sure if they slept much. We arrived at a sunny Devonport and […]

Today is the day of the big sail to Tasmania. Why they call it to “sail” to Tasmania I don’t know as the ship is a massive blob of steel pushed through the water with a big engine and a couple of underwater propellers. No sail involved. At all. Before we’re so far though there’s […]

To all nice things comes an end. Silly saying really, because to all not so nice things comes an end too. Even all in-between things stop at some time. So forget that I wrote that. We ran out of bread and so we make a few flat pan breads for Marjo as breakfast. Also the […]

The next morning the sand still feels yuck, the ocean is nothing better and again we’re not able to go into the waves as they crash on the beach. It’s supposed to rain quite a bit today and I have visions of us in the black sand, in the rain and convince Marjo to leave. […]

With our water depleted, bread, yoghurt and – most importantly – beer and wine supplies dried up, it seems time to leave the nice Reeves Beach campground. Just before we left a young couple setup a tent next to us. It seems not for sleeping in, but to stake out a place for Australia Day, […]

After two days being along the water and not having a way to nicely get wet or up a kite board it starts to itch. So we pack up and head east for the ocean proper. We drive past rural properties with cows, sheep and alpaca’s, the latter being the most photogenic. We stop in […]

Our direction is the ocean and having escaped any further branches dropping on the bus or us, we pack up and drive towards the east. With the heat it would be nice to see the ocean, so we head that way. Ideally we would go to Wilson Promontory but as some genius declared that National […]

After the highlight of seeing the children and their partners it was somewhat strange to get back in travel mode again. It didn’t take long though and soon we were on the road again. First stocking up on food and other necessities like a collapsible bucket (our non collapsible bucket tried anyway and suffered a […]