Linda Livingstone
We are semi-retired Grey Nomads travelling Australia with Lucille our van and Geraldine our 4x4. We frequently like to have a holiday and go overseas for more adventures. Then return to life on the road, which we love and have been doing since Febraury 2006Linhow
Travel Blog Posts
March 4th 2010
January and we are still in Alice. There was 6'' of rain and the Todd River was 2.87 metres high - the highest for 9 years and we were so lucky to see it. After three days the river was just about dry. Went to Jamies waterhole opposite the quarry for a run out. Turned out to be the old Stuart Highway with a ford over the Charles River, and, as we were by ourselves, we decided not to risk it as the road was pretty cut up. Later we were told that it was dangerous as there were big holes under the water! Saturday 23rd January - Australia Day Weekend We had booked in at the ‘Sails in the Desert Hotel’ at Yulara, the 5* hotel at Voyages Ayres Rock Resort, and decided to go ... read more
January 2nd 2010
1st October 2009 After arriving early at Ballongilly Farms we decided to go to Darwin for a few days and set off for our hotel, which we had booked for 2 nights, thinking that would be enough time to see the city. We are saving Kakadu and Litchfield National Parks until we can see them after the wet, when they are at their best. It was only a short trip of 321kms so we took our time and stopped at the small settlement of Pine Creek, 91 kms up the road for lunch. This is where the Stuart Highway meets the Kakadu Highway - the road that takes you up to Jabaru and the Kakadu National Park and on to Arnhem Land. The Pine Creek area first came to prominence during the building of the ... read more
Got a Photo Wrong!!!
Published: December 5th 2009Oceania » Australia » Northern Territory » Katherine
Onward to Katherine, Northern Territory
Published: December 5th 2009Oceania » Australia » Northern Territory
October 2nd 2009
….. Continuing on with the story - we are still in Longreach Friday 21st August After a day of doing odd jobs we had just decided to have a drink at around 15:45 when the phone went….. Could both of us please go to the Longreach Motor Inn by 16:00 hours? We were needed to work on the sunset cruise on the catamaran MV Longreach. We duly donned collared shirts, jeans and closed-in shoes and drove to the motel where we helped load the two trays of nibbles, big insulated food box and sundry other items and headed off to the boat moored on the banks of the Thomson River. We had only minutes to lay tables, set out glasses and ready the boat for the 41 guests due at about 16:45. Now, Howard and Linda ... read more
August 20th 2009
Looking at my last two Blogs I seem to have forgotten to add photos of the Birthday Boy, his fish and also some of where we didn't drink Cat Poo coffee. Sorry.................................... read more
Still in Queensland - Townsville to Longreach
Published: August 19th 2009Oceania » Australia » Queensland
August 11th 2009
2nd June 2009 We found a very nice park in Garbutt, an industrial suburb of Townsville. Right next to the army and RAAF bases and Townsville airport but away from the main road and southwest of the Town in an area we hadn't seen on our previous trip. For the first few days we hit the labour hire companies and registered with them all. There was a sausage sizzle every Wednesday night with big campfire so we went to that and gradually made friends in the park. We met a young couple from Echuca who knew Howard’s cousin Margo. Andrew is a chef and Cassie a hairdresser; she did a roaring trade cutting hair, $20.00 for women and $10.00 for men. I made a notice for the laundry offering to teach people basic computer skills and ... read more
June 8th 2009
Monday 25th May (258kms) Left Boonooroo and headed for Biggenden via Route 86 on a pretty good road. Stopped for lunch at a rest area at Ban Ban Springs. Sacred site of the Wakka Wakka’s, guarded by the Rainbow Serpent. Sorghum, sweet corn and peanuts grown around here. On to Biggenden, population of 635 (2001 census). on the Burnett Hwy. Primary production is the most significant industry in the Shire with beef and dairy cattle being predominant. Other agricultural pursuits include grain crops, piggeries, peanuts, citrus and timber. The area is also rich in minerals. Biggenden Mine is located eight kilometres out of town off Ban Ban Springs Road. Gold, bismuth and more recently magnetite have been extracted from the mine. Biggenden was founded in 1889 as a service centre to the short-lived goldrush towns of ... read more
May 23rd 2009
1st January 2009 saw us still in Paget, we spent New Year’s Eve with Slapper, Liz and Ross. We were invited to the wedding of Liz and John - Slapper’s (Slepakowski) son at the Dolphin Heads Resort on 3rd January. They had come over from Western Australia and there was no other family so we went to see the ceremony and left before the reception. A very strange wedding it was too. The bride’s mother had refused to attend and the bride walked across the lawn to the waiting groom, preceded by her three bridesmaids, alone! The actually ceremony was very short and sweet and then there was a long wait before the reception. On 6th January we treated Geraldine to a new windscreen (claimed on the insurance) as the previous one had always leaked and ... read more
November 18th 2008
To continue with the tale…… we arrived in Sarina, North Queensland, on 21st June 2008 and headed for the caravan park where we had booked to stay for the cane season. A tiny park which was full to bursting and we were sent down to the permanent area, which was not very nice. The owner came to tell us that we would have to move to another site later in the week. This was right next to the road and our water and power line crossed an entrance to the park so all and sundry could drive over them……. not impressed………AND they wanted $210 a week. Next day we went into Mackay, about 20kms up the road to check out parks there. The nicest one was full but we could get into one next to the ... read more
July 31st 2008
Saturday 24th May We had booked into the Grand China Princess in Bangkok’s Chinatown having previously stayed here, plus we needed to be close to the train station for our trip to Kanchanaburi. The flight was about an hour from Siem Reap to Bangkok and then it took two hours from landing to arriving at our hotel. For some reason we got upgraded to a very nice suite at the hotel, but we weren’t complaining. We had dinner on the 25th floor-revolving restaurant, which we hadn’t done before. We met two young boys who had just arrived a couple of hours ago from Melbourne. They were en route to Europe for their first overseas adventure. Their money wont be lasting too long if they eat like this every night! They had only a vague idea on ... read more
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