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Sunday 20.09.09 We left Benalla with a plan to drive a couple of hundred kilometers, before pitching the tent (sorry everything will be in kms, the car only counts in kms). We’ve got an ace book which lists free and cheap places to camp so we chose one just off the route and found it without too much trouble. It was just a recreation field in a town called Yarong and the sign at the gate said we should go to the bowls club next door for a beer and to pay for the pitch. There were no other tents and [View Full Entry]

Carrie Bibb and John Whitten - Carrie Bibb | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: October 11th 2009 | 21 Views | [diary=440294]

Yarong
Yarong
Yarong

DAY 316 Australia is 32 .8 times larger than the UK, we have told you that before. Then, imagine this, you are out in the middle of nowhere, you’ve rolled your vehicle, and you are 300k’s or more away from any town or community, and the town may only have a couple of hundred or so people in it and no medical facilities. If this say happened to be out in the bush your nearest hospital is 1000k’s away, and by road it would be torturous hours of corrugated rough roads and obstacles. Not to mention how long the journey may [View Full Entry]

kangaroojack - The Ts | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: September 20th 2009 | 107 Views | [diary=438094]

Royal Flying Doctor Service
Australia Map
Medical Instruments

A river crossing
A river crossing
Heading towards the Clohsey River
DAY 315 It rained in the night, very hard, the noise of the rain on the roof woke us both up, but we both managed to get back to sleep again. It seemed to rain on and off throughout the night, and continued for a short while once we got up. It was not enough to deter us from what we wanted to do today. We prepared ourselves for a walk today, we wanted to do the track that we needed the permit for, the Clohesy River Road, however until Wednesday this week it had been closed due to the work [View Full Entry]

kangaroojack - The Ts | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: September 19th 2009 | 62 Views | [diary=437832]

Checking out another
The crossing
Clohsey River Fig Tree

DAY 314 17th September 2009 Finally after 3 weeks of being in Cairns I actually get a haircut today. Julie left me the name and telephone number of her hairdresser before she left for England, however when I booked she could not fit me in for 3 whole weeks, so I decided that to get a decent haircut it was going to be worth the wait. So the morning finally dawned, but Andy and I had both slept terribly last night, we don’t really know why, but we both woke up feeling exhausted. I went to make us both a cup [View Full Entry]

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Published: September 18th 2009 | 95 Views | [diary=437577]

Pylon Down
Working...
How many....

DAY 313 The Three States Another day in paradise dawns with a cup of tea on the agenda. We don’t have a lot to report today, after breakfast we popped down to the Mail Delivery Centre in Cairns to pick up a parcel for Andy then we popped into Woolworths for some grocery necessities. Basically we are now planning our trip up to Cape York, so we are going to cook some food ready to freeze and then will transfer into our fridge freezer for the journey, it just makes things a little bit more convenient for those days when you [View Full Entry]

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Published: September 17th 2009 | 59 Views | [diary=437255]


Start of the day
Start of the day
We parked the truck in the car park and started our walk
DAY 312 I am getting used to Andy bringing me tea in bed again, it is a habit that I like him to keep up with, but I am sure it will all change when we are back out on the road again. We are up and about getting ourselves ready to have another walk today, still in the Barron Gorge National Park, but we want to do a different section, by the time we leave Cairns we expect to have walked most of if not all of the available tracks. So the Camelbak is full of fluid, we have a [View Full Entry]

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Published: September 16th 2009 | 62 Views | [diary=436921]

The Track
Djina-Wu
Ronnie & Pam Elgar

DAY 311 Today is going to be a good day, why? Well, for the first time in a long time I am going shopping, while I leave Andy to have a relaxing few hours while I too have a few hours of freedom. The normal start to the day, Andy brings me a cup of tea, neither of us feel any effects from our walk yesterday, we must be getting fitter. However after a shower and some breakfast, I grab the truck keys and bid Andy goodbye as I head to the DFO. The DFO, which we have come across in [View Full Entry]

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Published: September 15th 2009 | 46 Views | [diary=436749]


DAY 310 Introduction: Hi followers of Kangaroojack’s Australian adventures, may we first apologise, about the title of today’s blog, but I am doing this in the aid of a bit of research or fun really. I have started to read the complete blog again whilst here in Cairns, as we are living a bizarre existence, fun for sure, but just a bit bizarre and you tend to forget things, people and places way back on the adventure, so I thought it would be a great idea to read every blog entry again, just to refresh my poor old memory. As Kangaroojack [View Full Entry]

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Published: September 14th 2009 | 53 Views | [diary=436388]

Barron Gorge N.P
The Trail to the Weir
Something Else that stings

By kangaroojack
September 12th 2009
How Much? Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Cairns
DAY 309 It had been a warm night, but the ceiling fan did its best to keep us cool, just before 6.30 the time my alarm was set for I woke up, I found it amazingly easy, considering we have had so many late nights and late to get up in the morning, it must have been my sub conscious making sure that I did not oversleep. I have a Skype session set up for 7.00, and afterwards we will leave for Port Douglas, so while Andy gets the kettle on, I jump in the shower, get dressed and soon I [View Full Entry]

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Published: September 13th 2009 | 54 Views | [diary=436183]

Redcliff Beach
Sandcastle
Deserted Beach

By ErinandJessa
September 11th 2009
Dive Day!!! Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Cairns
Oh man, Tuesday was so epic it'll be hard to get it all in one go. We shot out of bed at 6:45am so excited for our dive we couldn't sleep. The bus picked us up at 7:30 and whisked us off to the docks to get us to our dive boat, the Silver Swift. Ho-ly crap. This thing was a frickin floating Hilton. As we started to take off toward the reef on a perfect sunny and windless morning, we had hot tea, focaccia sandwiches, and muffins as the dive masters briefed us on the three dives we were going [View Full Entry]

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Published: September 12th 2009 | 84 Views | [diary=435554]

MOOSE
Selfie...should have defogged
Fish!