Blogs from Lennox Head, New South Wales, Australia, Oceania

“Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. climb that goddam mountain” - Jack Kerouac On 12th May we bade farewell to Seventeen Seventy and set sail for a tiny beachside town by name of Woodgate Beach which was about 180km further south. Avoiding the A1, we threaded our way onto the Tableland Road which is where the back country and real heart beat of a country is found. Apart from gazing out front at the scenery unfolding, it is always of interest to tune into local radio chat shows. On this occasion some interesting conversation was taking place on ABC centring mainly on the upcoming federal election. At some point it had been arranged that the current PM, Scott Morrison, would call ... read more

We hebben Brisbane verlaten.. Na flink wat sjauwen met onze backpacks kwamen we aan bij het verhuurbedrijf waar we onze camper konden ophalen. We hebben een upgrade gekregen waardoor we nu in een big ass camper rond rijden:) hij is van alle luxe voorzien en rijd heerlijk. Het is een automaat dus schakelen is een zorg minder. Het links rijden was zenuwslopend op het begin maar nu gaat het prima. De eerste dag zijn we via de botanic gardens van Brisbane naar de eerste camping gegaan. Dit was midden in de bush bush dus flink wat kronkelweggetjes met als eindbestemming Mt. Nimmel lodge. De eigenaar zei dat we wel de volgende dag voor 8 uur weg moesten zijn aangezien er dan 200 man bij de camping zouden aankomen. Zij gingen de kakoda memorial trialrun doen ter ... read more

Ok, we haven’t written a blog for over a month so there will be two in rapid fire succession. One covering the things Shelagh and I have been up to on our own and one covering the exciting two weeks that our friends Katrina and Simon came to visit. And by exciting, I mean drinking. It was a sign of things to come when I picked them up at the airport at 10 am and took them home to shower, unpack etc. Within an hour Kat had opened the bottle of nice white Shelagh bought in a vineyard near Canberra and Simon had begun his investigation of Australian Craft beer. It happened to be the day of the Melbourne Cup – The race that stops a nation – so we headed out to meet Shelagh at ... read more

Lennox is so gorgeous that, for the first time during our trip, we reversed our travel direction and headed back south for a couple of days.There were no regrets and it was definitely worth it! I went to a Sivananda yoga class with www.yogawhitelotus.com in the beautiful circular ‘loft’ at the Lennox Head Community Centre. It was the Sivananda tradition that got me into yoga several years ago and it was so lovely to come back to it. The teacher, Madhava, had actually lived, trained and taught at the Sivananda Yoga and Vedanta Centre in London which I used to go to. Small world! I’d highly recommend White Lotus to anyone in or passing through the area. The next morning we headed back to our lovely little gym, checked out th... read more

Blog Six - New South Wales Exiting the Tasmania ferry, at 6:30 am., we found ourselves once again driving through Melbourne, only this time we didn't get lost!!! We were unaware of what awaited us South of Sydney and were more than pleasantly surprised at the beauty of the Sapphire Coast. Once again we came upon one secluded white sand beach abutted with dense forest after another. We were able to take time out to stop, walk, and enjoy this coastline. After four days of secluded campsites, we arrived in Sydney where we decided to urban camp on the outskirsts of the city and use the trains, buses, ferries, and our feet to get around. We were surprised at how easy it was once we learned how. Sydney boasts being the most beautiful city in the ... read more