Weggs - Judy and Rags

Hi We first backpacked in Eastern Europe in 2001. In 2002 we spent the whole 12 months backpacking around the world. This was before blogs so find details here: http://members.iinet.net.au/~weggs/weggs_world/index.htm
In 2007 we enjoyed another 6 months. This time we organised some home exchanges to help the budget, meet new people and be able to kick back and relax in a few places.
In 2008 apart from a few local trips that we also decided to include on our blog we went to New Zealand. We spent 3 weeks with a home exchange in the North Island and 3 weeks in the South Island traveling around in a hired camper van.
We are currently planning a trip to Vietnam where we will be joining some friends for an 8 day cycling tour in the north.

Vietnam Trip
April 5th 2009 -» April 23rd 2009 2009 Trip North with the caravan
May 16th 2009 -» September 22nd 2009 Deploying XO's to remote communities
October 27th 2009 -» December 1st 2009

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By Weggs
October 31st 2009

Wiluna, Nullagine and Marble Bar Oceania » Australia » Western Australia » Nullagine

Rags working with staff at Wiluna

We have been contracted by the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) organisation to distribute laptops to the communities of Wiluna and Nullagine. OLPC is an international charity originating in the USA founded by Nicholas Negroponte with the objective to supply basic ICT equipment to disadvantaged children throughout the world with the aim of improving literacy. In Australia the disadvantage is isolation, it just happens that these communities are mainly indigenous. Northern Queensland and the Northern Territory were the first to receive the laptops, now WA is being targeted. Rawa was a pilot schoo [View Full Entry]

By Weggs
September 11th 2009

Final Days Oceania » Australia » Western Australia » Carnarvon

Old machinery in Canarvon

Hi, thanks for following our adventures. We have been home for 5 days and now have time to finalise the last days of our trip. After Pannawonnica we had planned to visit Onslow but the bug to now be home had bitten and we instead headed for Carnarvon. Carnarvon is a place Judy visited for work several years ago and we have only ever driven through it so Rags thought it would lovely to spend our last couple of days in the sun here and get to know the tourist side, so that's what we did! And Trevor we didn't forget [View Full Entry]

Gascogne River mouth and jetty with a hole

By Weggs
September 8th 2009

Millstream to Pannawonnica Oceania » Australia » Western Australia

Lush pool behind the homestead

Millstream-Chichester National Park we reached by driving past Karratha and taking a bitumen road that was once a gravel access road. Rags was once again unhappy with the way the caravan was towing and our fuel consumption was shocking. There wasn’t much we could do but continue, however we didn’t stop at Python Pool as intended as the nearest fuel was Tom Price or Pannawonica and as we’d fuelled in Wickham the day before we were a little concerned. Millstream-Chichester National Park is a landscape of rolling hills, spectacular escarpments and winding tree-lined watercour [View Full Entry]

By Weggs
September 7th 2009

Point Samson Oceania » Australia » Western Australia » Point Samson

Karratha lunch time view

The Cove Caravan Park in Point Samson is fairly new and the facilities were a sharp contrast to those at Black Rock Caravan Park in South Hedland. The sites were also very well laid out with a concrete pad for the annexe and plenty of room to park your vehicle in the bay. We were only one site in from the coast and so had views over water. However, another camper warned us straight away about the bad sandflies so we were careful to spray on the insect repellent. Even so Judy was eaten, perhaps it is insect attractor instead. The [View Full Entry]

Dedication to men who worked in the construction of the North-West Shelf Natural Gas

By Weggs
September 2nd 2009

De Grey and Port Hedland Oceania » Australia » Western Australia » Port Hedland

Babbler at De Grey
These birds surrounded us constantly with their babbling

De Grey to Port Hedland, 27th August - 2 September Stopping at De Grey River for an early lunch Judy suggested a walk along the track. We found a beautiful spot overlooking the river so decided Port Hedland could wait a night and we went back for the rig and set up camp. By this time it was very windy and Rags wasn’t sure whether the “drag” had been because we were punching into the wind. We met some delightful people, Maria and Ernie and spent the evening playing “Sequence”. The next morning we’d decided to stay on at De Grey [View Full Entry]

By Weggs
August 30th 2009

80 Mile Beach Oceania » Australia » Western Australia » 80 Mile Beach

Lovely shady site

80 Mile Beach, 25 -26th August We both up early and by 8.30 we were on our way over the 22 kilometres of corrugated dirt road out of Port Smith. Rags noticed that the brakes weren’t working correctly and after pushing in a connecting cable plug we discovered that the brakes were partially on. We stopped several times trying to rectify this and Rags rebuilt the connection at an early lunch at Stanley but we hope to buy a new connector in Port Hedland. By the time we rolled into 80 Mile Beach only an unpowered site was available but as [View Full Entry]

By Weggs
August 24th 2009

Port Smith Oceania » Australia » Western Australia

Lovely spacious sites

Port Smith, 23 - 24th August At Port Smith, our next destination, which is about 140 kilometres south of Broome, we were meeting some friends, Mike and his wife, Jan who arrived not long after us. They had come from Cape Keraudren and were only at the beginning of their LSL, intending eventually to get to Tasmania. While the boys set up Judy made them all a cuppa. Port Smith Caravan Park is only 600metres from a lagoon which is about 6 kms long and lined with mangroves. After the camps were organised we headed towards the lagoon to explore [View Full Entry]

By Weggs
August 22nd 2009

Derby to Broome Oceania » Australia » Western Australia » Broome

Judy and Jarred palying iphone games

Derby 11- 18th August We arrived back in Derby late on Tuesday after farewelling Steve and Kerry at Bell Gorge. We went to let Lorrain and Brett know we were back and they invited us to join them for a roast meal. Roast pork and vegies. Yum! Kerry and Steve arrived back in Derby on Wednesday afternoon. We had already checked with Loraine that it was ok for them to stay at the block which they did overnight before departing for Broome on Thursday. The next couple of days were spent washing, cleaning and sorting out the Jeep. On Friday Judy [View Full Entry]

By Weggs
August 14th 2009

Finally - The Gibb River Road! Oceania » Australia » Western Australia » Gibb River Road

Rags driving through one of the many creek crossings

31st July - 11th August Once again with acknowledgment of input both of text and photos from Kerry and Steve Waking early with the symphony of birds in the camp grounds Kerry and Judy walked, we showered washed clothes and had decamped soon after 8am, much earlier than planned. This gave us time to replenish supplies in Coles before we returned and Steve hitched up the camper trailer while the girls collected the washing all before check out time. We later found that Kerry had left some of her washing as other people had put theirs around hers and she missed [View Full Entry]

Relaxing in the warm water of Zebedee Springs on El Questro

By Weggs
July 30th 2009

From Derby to Kununurra on the highway Oceania » Australia » Western Australia » Kimberley

Kerry and Judy in Windjana Gorge

20 - 30th July 2009 Thanks to our guest bloggers Kerry and Steve for help with text and authorship of some photos. After taking ages in a conga line at the fuel depot in Derby to get discount diesel we finally got to Woolworths where Steve sweet talked staff into selling them vodka before the official opening time of 12 noon. We were finally on our way after Steve and Kerry met someone they knew from Denmark. What a small world! Windjana Gorge, a 3.5 kilomtere gorge tunneled out of the Napier Range by the waters of the Lennard River, was [View Full Entry]

Kite circling for bread in Windjana camping area

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