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Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Coonabarabran January 16th 2009

Day 70 We have been away 70 days today, and it’s gone in the blink of an eye, 10 weeks so far that’s just amazing. Coonabarabran is the Australian capital of Astronomy and we wanted to find out why, from my simplistic views we knew the night sky here was big and clear so today we were going to get amongst it. I had already booked us in for star gazing tonight, about 9 kilometres from town at the Warrumbungle Observatory, which is privately owned, we are both looking forward to it. As we were leaving this morning Caroline found a huge spider, just hiding, inside the folds of the trailer cover, obviously wanting to get out of the sun. This bloke was big, and ugly but I don’t think it was the venomous type. First ... read more
Sliding Springs
Siding Springs Observatory
Made in England

Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Coonabarabran January 15th 2009

Day 69 This morning was scorching, all the windows were open on the trailer, I lay there somewhat comforted that I didn’t have to go to work, and could just enjoy the peace that we have been afforded. Still, I know that feeling wont last forever. Those thoughts of work have been periodically creeping in and out of my head, possibly on the level of worrying about it. Would we be able to find the sort of jobs we had back in the UK, with the levels of pay? I don’t know at this stage, but as we are entering deeper in to our adventure, travelling South and those thoughts, though real need to be set aside so we can truly enjoy our travels. We had every intention of staying another night at Narrabri, as it ... read more
Traffic Jam
What a Whoppa!
Mile after Mile




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