We left Mount Isa quite early on Monday morning heading south east, so we could make Longreach before dark. We traveled through Cloncurry, McKinlay (we stopped at the Crocodile Dundee Pub), Kyuna and then Winton. At Winton we looked around at some of the local attractions including a statue dedicated to Banjo Patterson who wrote Waltzing Matilda at a nearby station. We also saw the building where the first ever meeting took place for Qantas. I read that Qantas was conceived in Cloncurry, born in Winton and raised in Longreach. Just next door to the Qantas building is a wall that [View Full Entry]

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After leaving Alice Springs we traveled most of the day only stopping a couple of times, with one stop being at the Devil's Marbles. These roundish rocks are all in piles, balancing on eachother and looked pretty cool. It was nice to get out and stretch our legs mostly though lol. We stayed at a free camp spot along the Barkley Highway towards Mt Isa, about 70k out of Tennant Creek. We met an older couple traveling who invited us to their campfire. It was a nice night drinking tea/coffee and chatting. We spent the whole next day driving and arrived [View Full Entry]

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Internet and phone reception can be a bit iffy here in the centre of Australia, so its been a little while since my last blog. Our second day at Uluru, Nathan planned to climb the rock in the morning but when we got there it was closed due to high winds at the summit. Disspointed we drove out to the Olgas which are in the same national park about 40k from the rock. The Olgas are huge rocks all bunched together in one area, sticking out in the mostly flat landscape. We did a few walks around there and had lunch [View Full Entry]

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Coober Pedy was a very interesting town. The landscape surrounding the town is just piles of what looks like sand for approximately 30k north, south, east and west. Beside the piles of sand is mines (holes) that people have been looking for opals in. The town is also famous for its underground buildings including churches, motels and houses. We stayed at a caravan park in town and due to water shortages (because it very rarely rains there) we had to pay for any water we used, that included showers lol. We went for a walk down the main street and looked [View Full Entry]

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We woke up on the Wednesday morning expecting wind and rain but were pleasantly surprised to see sunshine and not even a slight breeze! Wow we couldn't believe it, we would not have to drive into the wind across the Nullarbor. We packed up and headed south towards Norseman and then east along the Nullarbor (Eyre highway). The trip was quite warm during the day but really cold in the mornings. It was quite diferent this time with just the 2 of and no Flemings to chat to over the UHF. I finally got to see a camel, but it was [View Full Entry]

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After leaving Brad and Vicki's house we took a detour into Lake King to see the lake and the town. The town has approximately 50 people and consists of a general store, a chemicals shop, a tavern, netball/football fields and some public toilets so it is really really small. The lake is quite large but has very little water and looks like a lot of salt flats. We then traveled north back towards Hyden/Wave Rock again. We took a road that was a shortcut to Coolgardie to save us going down through Esperance, which saved us about 300klms. The road was [View Full Entry]

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Wave Rock was fantastic, absolutely spectacular. It was so high and curled over like a really huge wave in the ocean. We all tried to climb up the wave as far as we could go with most of us sliding back down on our bottoms lol. The guys started competing who could run up and touch the highest spot they could lol. Not sure who ended up winning in the end. We then climbed up some stairs to the top of the wave, the rock was massive. We walked around seeing different things on top including large balancing boulders, a rock [View Full Entry]

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After leaving Bunbury we traveled towards Fremantle/Perth, stopping on the way at Mandurah. Mandurah is similar to Sunshine Coast. They have built lots of canals and the very rich have built their mansions and their elaborate apartment blocks on the canals. There was one really huge mansion that was built by a millionaire for his holiday house a number of years ago, but has only stayed in it for a total of 2 weeks, some people just have way too much money lol. Along the beginning of the canals is some very small very old cottages that are worth about 1.6 [View Full Entry]

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After leaving Augusta we traveled along Caves Road towards Margaret River. Along this road and around this region are over 200 caves hidden within the Limestone ridge, thus the name Caves Road. We stopped at Jewel Cave and did a tour. The cave once had an underground lake and the water and made the formations appear to glitter like jewels. The cave last had water in it around 9 years ago. The day was very rainy so we decided to go as far as Margaret River and stay there the night. Around Margaret River is beautiful country with wineries everywhere, green [View Full Entry]

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We are in Augusta the most South Western town in Australia, its about 30k south of Margaret River. The last 3 days have been beautiful, warm and sunshine but this morning we have woken up to the wind and rain again. We have been traveling through big tree country since we left Albany, passing through Denmark, Walpole and Pemberton. Many of the trees are over 400 years old and huge. The trees were mostly tingles and Karri trees which are both eucalypt trees. The Tingles as they get older get really large at the base of the trunk and then with [View Full Entry]

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