With the school holidays over it was time to get the kids started on their distance ed adventure, so we headed on to Longreach and a powered en-suite site at the Longreach Tourist Park. It looks much the same as last time we stayed here in 2013 – lots of people & lots of dust. 🙂 We were pleased to see that Jack &...
Lara Wetlands is a working cattle station situated between Blackall & Barcaldine. After quite a long drive down a dirt driveway you suddenly arrive at the Wetlands which are fed from the onsite artesian bore. It was pretty busy with vans crammed in all around the edges of the wetland. As we like our space we decided on a site a bit further back...
Megs and I have been fortunate enough to get some time off work so we’ve enrolled the kids in Distance Education and hope to be back for Christmas. The green line will join back to Brisbane but here is a rough draft of where we are headed. After packing the house up, changing our mind a couple of time about whether to sell or...
28/08/13 An amazing thing happened as we passed through the little towns of Parachilna and Blinman on our way Wilpena Pound in the Flinders Ranges today. They are both quite picturesque and have things likes underground mines to visit, but what was amazing to us was all the green grass everywhere. We’ve missed grass!!!! Liam wanted to get out of the car and roll...
27/08/13 Hello Lake Eyre!!! We stopped at the Lake Eyre South lookout and walked out to the salt plain. It was a fair walk out there, about 1km, but well worth it. The kids had a great time running around on the salt crust. While hamming it up for the camera they both discovered the mud underneath the salt. Yuk! Cameron made them both...