Our Australia trip

We booked the camping in Werribee South many weeks ago, in anticipation of the flight back to Sydney. Els, Marjo’s friend, has offered to look after the bus and the dogs while we are away in Sydney which helped us out greatly. So we decided to book for 10 days at a camping just outside […]

The Friday was supposed to be very hot, more than 40 degrees and hot northern wind. Not the best situation to be deep in a forest with 10 km of dirt road and another 20 of bitumen to get out of it. We decide therefore to pack up and look if Johanna’s Beach is a […]

I had to go to the vet, to get some medicine for Dotti, while standing at the counter I noticed a lady looking at my feet. She proceeded to whisper to her husband, I had to wait a bit longer, so had the time to ponder a bit. That brought me to connect the dots, […]

Lake Colac was not a place to stay for long. It was not only that Marjo was kept awake all night by a crying baby of a couple camping about 10 meters from us, or the constant flies that tried to crawl in every orifice. It was the feel of the camp site that was […]

We said goodbye to Herman and Renate and made our way back over the rough off road track and took our time to get to the bitumen. Then it was on to Ballarat where we would get groceries at Aldi and we found a shop that possibly had a new micro switch for our pressure […]

Time to go bush again and we want a nice spot to celebrate New Year. So we try and leave the dry fields. And swap them for the bush. We set up at a great spot, next to the river (well pretty much dried up) with plenty of privacy. Makes us happy. Tonight is New […]

Dinner time again, Marjo is making the bus and surroundings smell so nice that I have to occupy my fingers and mind with something else or I’ll start drooling. You wonder, are we spending too much time with the dogs? Since we wrote about Dotti, it’s only fair that Nossi gets a post too. Marjo […]

When we checked in, Lola told us that she wanted to go to church the next day and that, unless we wanted to go to church too, we might as well sleep in. No need to rush out of the camping by 10 am. We oblige and get up slowly, take the dogs for a […]

That morning the bus shakes us awake. We suggest from earthquake to tornado but cannot find a reason ….until I look at one of the tyres of the bus and find this. A bug (cicada?) shedding his shell. Ok the shaking might have been a bit over the top, but nice to see a rebirth […]

That morning Nossi has his normal trepidation of the trip ahead and tries to stay far away from the bus. He even didn’t want to take his pyama’s off. When we were all on board we continued the trip north, away from cold and rain. Marjo finds the reason why Dotti has been pulling out […]