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| 27th April 2009 Mum and Dad | "If my friends could see me now!" - From: Carrot Tops !! Hiya. We do envy you both......The photos are great and the shower really cool..... Sophisticated Caroline in the "almost all together" in the Australian bush....we like it! Look after yourselves......stay away from the swine flu if you can. Love and kisses |
| 27th April 2009 Mirjam & Dave | Deflowered - From: First Night Virgins Hiya Mates, We read your blog. We had a great deal of fun while reading it. We are now officially deflowered (of course still not sexually, but in the camping thing:P) Have a nice trip you guys! Greetings, Dave and Mirjam |
| 27th April 2009 Gary | Love the blog - From: Guess who's back in Town Keep up the great blog. Hope it doesn't take away from your journey of a lifetime. The blog does take time, doesn't it. Checked out the other blogs you mentioned. At this point Les & Marilyn only have one entry. Hope they get more up so that I can follow their adventures too. The Trumans link that you put up is incorrect. Here is the correct one: http://www.getjealous.com/Travelintrueys ENJOY Gary |
| 23rd April 2009 kangaroojack | Wombats & WA - From: The Permanent residence of Mr & Mrs Smith Hi Lee and Marilyn, thanks for your comments, ooops we didn't actually miss the 20th, unfortunately the date entry was wrong so I have now corrected. With regards to wombats and photos of wombats, this is a serious problem, we have not seen any since leaving Tasmania!!! We are not sure if wombats are in WA, we were assured that we would see them on the Nullarbor, but no, not a single live animal apart from a snake. I keep promising Andy pancakes but we never seem to have time to do them. Glad that you are reading the blog, we really enjoyed our time with you on Cradle Mountain and hope that we can see you sometime soon. Take care Caroline & Andy |
| 23rd April 2009 kangaroojack | Laugh Out Loud - From: The Permanent residence of Mr & Mrs Smith Hi Tina, thanks for your comment, glad the blog makes you laugh out loud, Andy does have a way with words!! Perth is really quite nice, even though the weather turned suddenly cold causing me to put a fleece on again! I read your very long email and will try to find time to respond shortly.Love to you and Paul & Sydney & Planty & Cactus and anyone else I forgot to mention... C xx |
| 22nd April 2009 Lee & Marilyn Harris | Word Count Exceeded - From: The Permanent residence of Mr & Mrs Smith Dear Andy and Carol, Tch tch! Having to keep a watchful eye on you as you have skipped the 20th. I hope this is merely a server problem (like “Error 200,000 - Word Count Exceeded” or similar) . . . If this is not the case then I say poor show. (Don’t let writer’s cramp get the better of you, there are people relying on your blog). Also . . . I don’t mean to be picky but I notice photos and mentions of Wombats have fallen off rather seriously (Please refer 10th to 12th March in particular). Can something be done about that? Do they not have Wombats in WA? With love (and spoonful) from Lee and Marilyn |
| 21st April 2009 Tina | Hope the feeling remains! - From: The Permanent residence of Mr & Mrs Smith Hey You two, Sounds like the adventure is still just that, and your now well experience travellers, still loving the blog and well worth your efforts! Some of your comments should go in a book as they've made me laugh out loud, this one in particular Andy "Driving in on the highway I have a funny feeling, a pleasant one similar to wind"... :o) Hope Perth is all The T's want - and more!! Tx |
| 19th April 2009 kangaroojack | Oh No! I Missed the Toasted Marshies!! - From: The Travelin Trueys Hey guys, great to hear from you. We read your blog, we kept looking for your update and were pleased to see it. We have see one kangaroo tonight!! It must be over a week since seeing a kangaroo (well a live one anyway!) We will be in Perth tomorrow (Monday) try and catch up with us if you are in the vicinity, Andy wants to cook you dinner again! We hope to be in Perth for a short while. Travel Safe - KangarooJack |
| 18th April 2009 Travelin Trueys | Toasted marshmallows - From: The Travelin Trueys G'day Kangaroo Jack its the Trueys. We are back in the land of technology and have finally updated! and read some of yours. All those words and the toasted marshies missed out. That was kind of dessert before dinner I guess. Hope Kalgoorlie was great 'cause Lucky Bay was awesome. Kangaroos on the beach with you Caroline. Stay safe and keep having fun, hope to catch you somewhere along the way. Trueys |
| 7th April 2009 Wendy & Tony | BIRTHDAY - From: Baby Steps HAPPY BIRTHDAY OLD THING! Younger than us so we can say that :-)) Still enjoying your blog when I have time to sit down for a while. Credit crunch my foot. We are flat out selling bikes to people who want to spend money. Wish we could take a year out and have a big adventure like yours - you lucky things. Take care. Team Orange Heaven xx |
| 7th April 2009 Blytons | Happy B'day 21 again - From: Baby Steps Sounds like you had a very special birthday Caroline, hope you enjoyed it, Oz style. We have been keeping an eye on your blog, your stories are fantastic, we are in Albany now, Margaret River by Saturday still lots to see before then though. Wade says hi!! Cheers Sharon, Tim and Wade. |
| 7th April 2009 Darryl and Sarah | Birthday Girl! - From: Baby Steps Happy Birthday Caroline, sounds like you had a lovely day. Bet it's a birthday you won't forget in a hurry! Take care, love & best wishes Darryl & Sarah |
| 6th April 2009 kangaroojack | Walk Softly, Carry a big stick - From: Crossroads of Australia That was Theodore Roosavelt |
| 5th April 2009 Gary | Outback - From: Crossroads of Australia Stock up on potable water. Lots of 'bore' water outback and not fit for drinking. We had no troubles in our travels, mind we did stay in caravan parks. Somebody famous once said: Walk tall and carry a big stick!!! ENJOY |
| 5th April 2009 Gary | A Kick in the - From: I'll Shove this Golf Club...!!! Pants. The first sentence is like a kick in the pants for those of us that can't be in Australia enjoying all the things that you are. Camping is the ONLY way to see the country. Keep up the fantastic blog. I live through your adventure. |
| 5th April 2009 Gary | Travels - From: Crossroads of Australia I am so envious. You appear to be heading in the general direction of our trip last spring (fall here in Canada). Love the blog and will continue to follow you wonderful journey. mytb.org/ThePass |
| 5th April 2009 Jan Davis | Kings in Grass Castles - From: Crossroads of Australia Hi Andy & Caroline, You are now starting to get into the "real" outback areas of our vast country. Woomera you will find fascinating as it was once the "rocket range" where test rocket launchings and firings were carried out, mostly during the 50's & 60's. Lots of intersting stuff to look at. Sydney Kidman was one of Australia's wealthiest cattle barons and greatest land owner. Eventually his land holdings consisted of more than a hundred cattle stations reaching from South Australia to the Gulf of Carpentaria in northern Qld, covering and area greater than 125,000 square miles. This is more than the total area of England, Scotand, Wales and Ireland combined and, amounting to around 3% of Australia. The Kidman Way is also named after him. Starting out as a "beef road", enabling him to get his livestock from western Queensland to the rich beef markets in the south - Adelaide, Sydney & Melbourne - today, it is a well-travelled highway of approx 800kms through outback NSW, stretching from Jerilderie (bushranger country, Ned Kelly, etc) in the south through Hillston, Cobar, Bourke and on to Barringun just south of the Qld border. Also, if you want a good read about another of our pioneering families, grab a copy of "Kings in Grass Castles" by Mary Durack. The Durack family were almost solely responsible for opening up the vast Kimberley Region of north-western Australia and, even today, still hold the record for the longest cattle drive in history from the eastern states to Western Australia. Cheers, Jan & Ted PS The "mini tornado's" you will see a lot of throughout the outback are commonly known as "willy-willy's". Don't normallly do a lot of damage but, don't ever get caught in one or stand in one as you will get peppered with sticks and stones and other debris as well as covered in choking dust! Doesn't do the duco on your vehicle any good either. :) xxx |
| 4th April 2009 Helen | - From: Penfold, Trusty Sidekick or Winemaker? Hi, Just thought I would mention the car and motorbike museum in the Barossa. Well worth a visit and it is huge. I should have mentioned it earlier but only just remembered. Love the blog - am enjoying your trip. Love Helen |
| 2nd April 2009 Darryl and Sarah | Stamford Grand Glenelg - From: April Fools Day That's where we spent the last night of our honeymoon in February 2000! We hadn't booked anywhere and just wandered into the foyer looking like tramps but wound up with a 2 night stay with special room & honeymoon dinner for about £100 all in - result! It's right next to the end of the tram line and alot of street entertainers hang around there, it's great fun and the view across the sea is tremendous! Happy memories! So glad that you two are having so much fun, we're picking up so many good ideas from your blogs. I've just been searching for a car charger for the laptop...also Dell!! We start our journey going anti-clockwise from Melbourne so you never know, we might cross paths which would be fab. Must go ... clock's ticking!!! Dar & Sar |
| 27th March 2009 The Blytons | Sorry we missed you at KI - From: Twelve A’Possums Got your message, we are just on the ferry going back over to the mainland. Heading for Adelaide this arvo. Your blog is fabulous, we will be reading often, keep in touch. We had trouble getting on a ferry, this was the only one until Monday, so we decided to go as we had seen everything. Unfortunately we have limited time so we are making the most of our time and getting back while we can, saw everything on the island anyway. Cheers Sharon, Tim & Wade xxx |
| 27th March 2009 vicki & norm | - From: Twelve A’Possums loving the blog,remembering our trip following yours. |
| 25th March 2009 Patsy Quick | Hello knobber! - From: Home of A Legend Watcher mate, how's you then, having fun by the look of it ! Any excuse to get out off working......... have just got back from Morocco, riding for six days, its tough at the top.... am at Tony's this evening, bringing him lots more work to do, can't let him be doing nothing of an evening !!! Well enjoy yourself out there, keep safe, Patsxxxx |
| 25th March 2009 Mum and Dad | Pasties and snakes - From: Going to K I We remember those days in Trewoon and the delicious pasties but also I remember that when I was walking up the hill to your school to work on dinner duty when I saw what I thought was a very large snake on the path in the distance......as I approached it I realised that it was a leather belt that had curled in the hot sunshine and looked like a real snake...thank goodness it wasn't. We have had corrugated roads in the USA......all shaken up at the end of the journey...we behave like kids and become vocal as the car judders and shudders over the bumps. xxxxx |
| 25th March 2009 Liz and Rick | More adventures - From: The Golden Caterpillar We have become groupies! Can't wait to read about the next adventure of the T's. You write so well and your descriptions of the places are excellent. We realise that we have visited many of the places mentioned, yet take so much of our beautiful country for granted! Safe travelling and enjoy Kangaroo island. What an expensive ferry ride! |
| 24th March 2009 kangaroojack | Loving our work !! - From: Home of A Legend Hi Jan and Ted, hope you are both well, have to say that because you enjoy "reading our work" it gives us a reason for doing it. Keep up the messages we love them. A&C xxx |
| 23rd March 2009 Jan & Ted | The Coorong - From: Home of A Legend Hi Andy & Caroline, If you are still in the vicinity, make sure you check out Chinamen's Wells there in The Coorong. Historical sites with actual water wells constructed by early immigrant Chinese who came to Australia during the gold rushes in the 1800's. When the Victorian Government put a "tax" of 10 pounds on people (particularly the Chinese) arriving on their shores on their way to the goldfields, the Chinese came up with the idea that they would "land" in South Australia and then walk the rest of the way into Victoria, thereby avoiding the 10 pound tax. Of course, it was a very long walk through some very barren and inhospitable country and they needed drinking water so, they built a series of these wells so that they could be sure of available water to sustain them on their journey. Still well (pardon the pun!) preserved and, one still with water in it, even today. Love your work! Love Jan & Ted xxx |
| 23rd March 2009 kangaroojack | Salt - From: Done and Dusted Next time we go hiking shall take salt in my back pack. I hate leeches they make such a mess!! Caroline |
| 23rd March 2009 Liz aitchison | What an adventure. - From: Rain doesn’t seem to dampen their Ardour We think your blog is marvellous especially since we had a mention or two. Safe travelling. Liz back at Point Lonsdale |
| 18th March 2009 Jan & Ted | 12 Apostles - From: S*x is like !! Hi Andy & Caroline, Great photos! These scenes bring back a lot of memories for us from when we lived in Melbourne years ago and used to drive the GOR on weekends, etc. You will get some of the wildest weather in Australia along this strip of the coast but, even so, still well worth the drive, whatever the weather - fine, sunny, wet, cold or "blow-your-head-off" windy. The GOR has many moods and, the scenery just as spectacular, whatever the weather! Easy to see why this is known as the Shipwreck Coast. In the old days, many a sailing boat came to grief on the treacherous reefs and rocky coastlines that abound along here. Warrnambool is a decent-sized town and, Flagstaff Hill, well worth a visit. Re the Wicked campervans - aren't they great? and, all individual. We love reading the different sayings and phrases on each one. Very amusing! Cheers. Love, Jan & Ted xxx |
| 15th March 2009 Jan and Ted | Leeches - From: Done and Dusted Hi Andy & Caroline, I'm a country girl - up until I got married anyway (and still one at heart) and, NEVER, EVER, got used to leeches. Still dislike them intensely but, one thing that will dispatch them quicker than anything else is to sprinkle them with ordinary table salt. Works instantly. Happy hiking! Love, Jan |
| 14th March 2009 kangaroojack | Armchair Travel - From: Amazing Hi Jan and Ted, thanks for your comments. Glad you are still enjoying our "daily drivel", we do enjoy writing it, lets hope we don't run out of things to say before the end of our journey otherwise you and all of our other blog readers will get bored. Heres to some more adventure. Catch up soon Caroline & Andy |
| 14th March 2009 kangaroojack | Damper - From: “Cocky’s Joy” Hi Helen, this is the third time I have heard of Damper this week. We will have to try some. Hope you are all well on the farm, and great new about your 15mm of rain. It is pouring on Tasmania today, we believe it has come from Victoria, I do hope that it was with you for a while first. Please can you tell Wally that he is Andy's favourite and he is missing him very much. I on the other hand think all of the dogs are great and miss them all, poor trixie, hope she is feeling better now. Love Caroline &Andy |
| 14th March 2009 Jan & Ted | Congratulations! - From: Amazing Hi Andy & Caroline, Congratulations on your 10,000th blog hit! You do realise, don't you, that you now have such a huge following that, you can't possibly give up now, even if you wanted to - you've created a monster (albeit a great one! :) We always enjoy your daily "drivel" episodes (our armchair travelogue) - one of the highlights of our day to read and see what you have been up to next. Great photos too. We look forward to catching up again in person sometime when you are back on the mainland again. Love, Jan & Ted xx |
| 13th March 2009 Helen | Cockys Joy - From: “Cocky’s Joy” Hi Andy and Caroline, I remember the golden syrup and butter version as well. Usually home made butter after milking the cow and separating the cream from the milk and then making the butter. We had it only last year when we had children for a visit and had a bonfire below the house. Made up damper dough and then rolled it around green willow sticks and cooked over the fire and then pulled them off and filled the middle with cockys joy. To die for. Love Helen |
| 13th March 2009 Jan & Ted | Childhood Memories - From: “Cocky’s Joy” Hi guys, Yes, "cocky's joy" was a favourite spread for bread during the Depression and World War years because it was cheap and golden syrup does store almost forever but, the formulation was actually equal parts of butter and golden syrup mixed together into a smooth spread. As kids, my brother and I were introduced to it by our Dad as it was a favourite of his. Being from humble farming folk, money was never plentiful but, we always had this sweet treat to savour. Tastes even better on fresh damper, an Aussie homemade type of bread (more like a huge scone really!) and not the stuff they sell as damper in some bread shops. Washed down with steaming, hot billy tea (water boiled in a billycan over an open fire with a handful of tea thrown in once boiled). A real taste treat. You'll have to try it! :) Keep up the good work! Jan & Ted |
| 12th March 2009 Darryl and Sarah | Making an impact - From: I’m Having a Great Time I’ve Got the Scars to Prove It!! Hey you guys. Wombat count is impressive! Proposal of relief managers even more impressive even if you don't take this opportunity I'm sure there will be more. You've given a great account of Tasmania, don't think there will be many reading this who wouldn't want to visit in light of your experiences! Take care, Darryl & Sarah |
| 10th March 2009 Darryl and Sarah | Advice Taken! - From: An Elephant Ate My Pancakes !! Camps 5 will be purchased before we leave on the trip! It's just great reading your blog every day and I've already totted up alot of ideas from them. We've only got 46 days now before we head off on Project Outback (as our work are calling it!). Keep having fun! love Sarah & Darryl |
| 5th March 2009 kangaroojack | Jealous - From: Fabulous Post Boxes I only want, 1 Say Hi to Tony and Patsy 7 Clive and Clive. I love the Wombats, but the Possums are just out of Control. Andy |
| 5th March 2009 Orange Heaven | So they do it there as well - From: Fabulous Post Boxes Hello Guys. We saw some fab mail boxes in NZ as well. Shame we Brits can't be as imaginative eh? Been keeping an eye on your adventures. Really envious! We only managed to see dead possums in NZ. One up on you - we saw Kiwis, so cute. Glad your lip is getting better Caroline - nasty. The world is still orange! We now have 4 in the garage..... Tony is off to Morocco with Patsy in May and planning Iceland 2010 on the 990 Adventure. Keep safe. Tony and Wendy xx |
| 2nd March 2009 kangaroojack | Eastern Brown - From: The Aussie Air Hi Chris, thanks for your comments, we saw the Eastern Brown on the road from Canberra to Brindabella over the Australian Alps. If we see a Tassie Tiger I will let you know. ;-) Great you are reading the blog, keep involved. Andy |
| 2nd March 2009 Chris | Wildlife - From: The Aussie Air You forgot one: Tassie tigers: 0. If the snake was in Tassie, it'll more likely be a tiger snake. No Eastern browns in that state. Chris. |
| 1st March 2009 kangaroojack | Hi - From: Tasmania Hi Helen, Thanks for the note, Caoline is much better she went down like a bag of spuds. Hope every one is good and missing you all, say woof to all the boys and girls.(Especially Wally) but don't tell the others. All our love Andy & Caroline |
| 1st March 2009 Helen | Fat Lip - From: Tasmania Sorry to hear about the fat lip. Know how it feels having had 8 stitches in mine a couple of years ago after a run in with a sheep and a gate. Sipping Soup through a straw gets a bit boring after a while. Glad you are enjoying Tassie - pretty country isn't it and glad that you have seen some Wombats. Found out when we were crutching the other day that one of the shearers comes from Tumbarumba up past Tumut and they have heaps up there. Still no rain. Love Helen |
| 1st March 2009 kangaroojack | Tumble - From: Tasmania Thank you, I am feeling a lot better though still very sore, Andy has promised pictures, but they wont be too gruesome. Tassie is a great place, just a little bit cold at times so remember to bring a fleece with you! Caroline |
| 27th February 2009 Darryl and Sarah | Tumble in Tas - From: Tasmania Hope all is well after the tumble and the bruising doesn't look like you've gone 3 rounds with Ricky Hatton! Looking forward to seeing the photos ... NO PRESSURE!!! Take care Darryl & Sarah |
| 25th February 2009 Darryl and Sarah | Lesser Spotted Red Penguin! - From: Night of the Little Fairy's That's a great shot of the Fairy (Little) Penguin and a lovely photo of Lillico Beach. I've just been researching Tassie (although we're not there until this time 2010!!!) and you've already given us plenty to look forward too! Happy travelling. Darryl & Sarah |
| 24th February 2009 pete the rigger | listen to the night - From: Our Daily Bread hi guys you are doing well, just a note to you both to listen at night time to the sounds of the tassie devils fighting over food etc, not every night is obvious but you will hear them and its quite a sound when you do hear them. try the bakery at westbury or the pub in deloraine for a goodf feed. ooroo |
| 20th February 2009 Darryl and Sarah | Spider Web Site - From: "Ned Kelly's Last Stand" ... another one we've found!! http://www.xs4all.nl/~ednieuw/australian/Spidaus.html |
| 20th February 2009 Darryl and Sarah | Shudder! - From: "Ned Kelly's Last Stand" Yikes!! That really was a Wolf Spider!! Have sent Jungle Man the link and told him to catch up on his knowledge!!! |
| 20th February 2009 kangaroojack | Wolf Spider - From: "Ned Kelly's Last Stand" Never wishing ever to be smarty pants, we have done a bit of back ground on wolf spiders and your jungle man is incorrect. Wolf spiders frequent Australia and, pass this site on to him if he is into spiders, a good web site, sorry about the pun is. http://museumvictoria.com.au/spiders/detail.aspx?pid=21&pic=1 Our best regards. Oh PS Have a look at a Compant called Gary Grick Nissan in Nambour they are a very good Nissan dealer. |
