FRANCAIS 29-Jun-2008 to 13-Aug-2008: Le Grand Final: 10 000 Kilometres Dans la ville animee et accueillante d'Adelaide on se prepare pour notre nouvelle aventure : La traversee du desert de Nullarbor et la decouverte de la sauvage "Western Australia". On peut deja vous dire que l'ouest australien est devenu notre prefere avec son espace immense et sa nature encore completement sauvage. Entre les 2700 km qui separent Adelaide de Perth se trouve le desert de Nullarbor qui s'etend lui-meme sur un peu plus de 2000 km. La traversee nous a pris 4 jours. 4 jours sur la route [View Full Entry]

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Got to the kennels just after 8 am and the lady who runs the kennels was waiting at the gates and Marg thought that she was o/k so we left the dogs. We headed off to Katherine Gore for our 9am cruise. The cruise was timeless land which covered 3 Gores and took 3 ½ to 4 hours, It was interesting to see the stunning aboriginal rock art nestled on the rock walls in the Gore. Changed boats 3 times as the water level is low as it is getting close to their wet season again. Nitmiluk tours floats the [View Full Entry]

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Our arrival at McDonnell Range Caravan Park was most welcomming...a lovely park with a good site, what more cold we ask for? We quickly unhooked the van and went into town to have a look around, it was nice for me to be in Alice...the town that Michelle and I had visited years ago for our Mother and Daughter holiday. Not a lot had changed but certainly with us being there almost a week both Keith and I were beginning to feel like locals, we found a good coffee shop (always important as you know) a great hairdresser who certainly took [View Full Entry]

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Left Daly Waters pub thank God, it was that dry and hot you felt sick. Filled up with fuel on hwy 188c/l and droved 280 km’s to Katherine, and stopped at the tourist information centre then onto Woolworths to get some supplies as we ran out of fresh fruit and vegies. Stayed at Riverview Caravan Park (fpa) about 2 ½ km’s from town. This park is a dog friendly park, joined fpa and got 10% discount straight away. Booked in for 3 nights and put a/c on for the dogs and us as very hot (29). Marg met a lady [View Full Entry]

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Hey everyone, I know it's been a while since I made an entry but I’ve been so busy with work right up to leaving the Malpass. I left on the 3rd of August on the bus up to Cairns. Spent a couple of days in the city, Did a sky dive on Monday morning a couple more bungy jumps in the afternoon. Hired a wicked van & set of Monday night to Darwin. The first stop was the Blue Healer, a pub on the highway that’s supposed to be pretty famous. Had a quick beer & signed the walls for prosperity. [View Full Entry]

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Leaving Devil’s Marbles this morning, Marg got up early to take some photo shots ok this is a lie Bailey woke her up to go for a leak so she came back and got the camera. It was cold again this morning. This is for Karen and Rebecca, when we were having dinner last night we had a quiet chuckle to ourselves as the people next door to us in a Jayco camper trailer had 2 little kiddies and the little girl (4yr old) was crying, mum and Dad was telling her “she wasn’t having any marsh mellows heated o [View Full Entry]

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This is our 2nd day at Banka Banka station so it was a rest and relax day after some cleaning of the inside of the van and washing the dogs. For the last 4 days there has been a s/e breeze blowing which was cool at times. Around midday they all started to roll in again. Across from us a Rapid came in some we had to have a look and started to talk to what we thought was the owner’s Kingsley and Lyn (nice retired couple) from mid north coast nsw, but as it turned out it wasn’t there van [View Full Entry]

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Up early to drive to Daly Waters’s pub some 350km’s way. Stopped for fuel at Renner Springs 207.5c/l so only spent $50 not full tank at that price. Cost $9 /head for camp site at the pub, set up camp and were told that we could get mobile phone and TV. None of either happened as Marg wanted to watch the Olympic Games opening but we wouldn’t have stayed if we knew this. There is a show on tonight so I think we will not go as Marg is a crook. Not much here to see if passing a good [View Full Entry]

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We ran out of gas a Wal’s camp so fill the gas bottle up at Camooweal the 4.5 kg cost $21 a bit pricy but considering where we are. Before we left Camooweal Marg put on the dream pot for a beef and red wire stew so she didn’t have to cook when we arrived at our next destination. Filled up fuel to the very top cost $188.9 c/l and had 270k’s to go before next fuel stop. The first 30 k’s or so it was extremely hard struggling to build up speed as it was all up hill and [View Full Entry]

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Left Charleville 9 a.m. and drove all day and stopped at Tambo so Marg could go to the teddy bear shop. She says it was crap about a dozen teddies, women sitting making on nothing to write home about. Cheapest teddy was $90 then over $100, bit of a disappointment, was going to buy the grandkids a teddy each. We had lunch while we were there, just ham sandwiches. Drove on to Longreach and looked for camp site by the river. One we found we were unable to stay as no caravans, motorhomes, camper trailer etc. so we went to [View Full Entry]

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