Brumlins

What a great stroke of luck deciding to stay at Berri and not Renmark. Although it was rather busy with families who slept in tents because any money they might have had had been spent on the ski boat and all the floating accessories you could think of. But we awake the next day to see a great number packing up and heading home, and so they should, us grey nomads need a bit of peace and quiet! Our short stay here saw us visit Renmark (and quickly leave again), climb the local water tower for views of the Murray River, visit a Historical Village at Loxton, and back track about 40km because we happened to pass Banrock Station Winery on the outskirts of Berri. We know you will find this hard to believe but ... read more

We have decided to make this a short blog even though we did spend 10 days here. Ok, let’s start. Two days were spent in Adelaide itself, one for shopping (the Myer Centre on Rundle mall is a copy of the Myer Centre on Queen St Mall in Brisbane, or vice versa) and one for sightseeing. We walked along the River Torrens past the zoo and into the Botanical Gardens before making our way back along the river to the Adelaide Oval (the place it all started to fall apart for the Aussies) and a tour of the Don Bradman museum. Joke what do you get if you cross an Australian cricketer with an oxo cube? Answer A Laughing Stock Another day was spent driving up to the Adelaide Hills visiting the wooden toy factory at ... read more

After getting out of Ceduna as quick as we could we spent a couple of days in Streaky Bay where we realised, on seeing all the festive lights and displays at the caravan park….hey, it’s nearly Christmas!!!!!! Time to get into the spirit and as it was Friday a G&T and V&T and the odd sip of port went down well!!!!!! After a slow start the following day we took the tourist drive to Cape Bauer and Westall Way to visit the blow holes (that didn’t blow) the whistling holes, (yes they did whistle) and Murphy’s Haystacks, being rock formations that look like, yes you’ve guessed it, Murphy, no, haystacks! A short long hop gets us into Port Lincoln. The most southerly tip of the peninsula. We had planned 3 days at the most, but ended ... read more

Bye bye Margaret River and hello Pemberton, home of the karri tree. This hardwood tree dominates the area and is the sole reason for the survival of this quaint town, oh and perhaps a tourist or two. Things to do in Pemberton; take a ride on a tram down to the Warren River (and hope you get a better day for it than we did) and drive the unmade roads through the forest (we enjoyed this, the roads were in good condition despite the recent rain and were also one way only, the complete lack of other traffic made it a breeze). From the tall karri tree we drove to Walpole, the home of the even bigger tingle tree towering over 70m into the sky. Now we must warn you, if you want to do the ... read more

For those of you who read our last blog, (all zero of you, many thanks) you will, we hope, have noticed that they are getting shorter and shorter. This was not a conscious decision on our part, it just happened, so live with it. Anyway, it gives you more time to admire our great photography. The caravan park at Rockingham was not the best in the world, but the showers were hot and that’s good enough for us. From here we visited (by bus) Fremantle, which is a great place. The Fremantle Gaol is well worth a visit. There are several different tours, we did the “Doing Time” tour and thoroughly enjoyed it. This was followed by a stroll through the Fremantle Markets to the very busy cappuccino mall, and then on to the jetty with ... read more