Wow, it's Friday already, how time flies when your relaxing with nothing to do. Wednesday I had my first go at the Hobie kayak. What great fun! Instead of paddling (which you can do if you choose) you peddle and the fins underneath the kayak push you along. I gave fishing a shot and while I didn't fall in, I did manage to jam the reel with the line and put an end to my fishing efforts after about 5 casts. After 4 days of enjoying the weir to ourselves, another caravan rocked up on Thursday afternoon. This has annoyed the dogs no end, as they are now confined to their pen unless on lead... even more annoying for them is that 2 dogs turned up with them. It has also put a stop to us ... read more

Another day of pack up and set up. This time our destination was the Glebe Weir. This place is lovely, about 26kms off the highway and at this point in time completely deserted. There is plenty of water in the weir, but no drinking water supply, so basically we're here until our water runs out. We're bathing in water from the weir and keeping the tank water for drinking and washing up dishes. Due to the seclusion and non-existent neighbours we're going to let the dogs pretty much do what they please during the day and pen them at night. They have been rather cooped up the last few weeks, so I think they'll enjoy the freedom! Noah has been exploring already and discovered a game of bush skittles, but I've decided that showing him how ... read more

Today to give Ryan some peace and quiet while he worked (something we are not getting tonight while trying to sleep thanks to the locals having a party involving a combo of loud techno and country music) I took Noah and the dogs for a short stroll down to the Dawson River, which is not far from the caravan park. After the dogs had a little splash in the creek, we headed back to the van to drop off the dogs (it is quite hot and a short walk was more than enough for them) and Noah and I continued into Taroom town centre via the river walk... fancy name for a dirt walking track :) There's quite a bit of history in Taroom and it was interesting reading the signs about Leichhardt and the region ... read more

This morning we said farewell to the lovely spot in Bell and headed for Jandowe, the Camps book said there was a caravan park there. Once again we were on small country connecting roads and they were a bit bumpy. We drove into the caravan park at Jandowe, drove out and headed for Chinchilla. At Chinchilla, we drove past the first park and stopped at the next one, which looked quite nice.... the office sign said back at lunchtime... it was 10am... we headed for Miles. Before reaching Miles, we decided to investigate a caravan park in the Camps book. It was in a small town (?.. we never saw a town, so maybe just a place?) called Columboola. After 15 kms of dirt road we arrived at Columboola Country... no freaking mobile service... so after ... read more