For those who are new to this blog if you double click on the first photograph you will get all the photos in a slide show. We headed off from Island Lagoon lookout and headed off into Woomera after having to tighten up a jubilee clip on our water lines, this involved removing part of the bash plating underneath. Water seems to be our nemesis. We wanted some tomatoes and bread so headed off to the supermarket where tomatoes were cheaper than buying them in Clare! $4.10 kg, invested in three and some fresh spinach leaves. Tomatoes on our sandwiches for lunch. Woomera is such a clean and tidy town. Not a thing out of place. We wandered around the outdoor display of rockets and weapons which were developed and launched during the stations heyday. Visited ... read more

We are heading out Saturday morning after three weeks of hell. Everything which could go wrong did, culminating with GMan being stung by a bee again. As a result he has one arm which looks like Mr Atlas and the other like Mr Stick. The Dr's just tell him to keep popping anti-histamines. We have a very large supply under the bed with all the other medications for the quarantine people to laugh about when they inspect the vehicle. Of course we store them right next to the red wine. Not everything got done, but what the heck it will still be waiting when we get home on 20th September. A broad overview of the semi planned trip is - up the Stuart Highway to Henbury Meteorite Craters, down to Curtin Springs, across the great Central ... read more

At Conargo we parked at the oval in a free camp site. We were faced once more with having to back the van into a parking space at Conargo and finally we managed. We think we are getting better at this. We discovered that the loos attached to the caravan park had no water so after dinner we headed towards the hotel as it was a Saturday night, suspiciously dark. When we got there we found a handwritten notice on the door telling us that due to tragic circumstances the hotel was currently closed and would be reopened as soon as feasible. Oh well we tried, it just meant that we had to walk an extra 300 meters to the brand new posh ones over the other side of the sports ground. So back to the ... read more

Very little to report today. The morning started with a search to find the boys who were finally found chasing ducks down by the small inlet below our caravan. I will never allow them to sleep outside the van again, they got up early and nicked off. We headed east along the Newell Highway through the most boring countryside around. It may be boring but some of the place names are fantastic. We stopped for lunch at my personal favourite Mulberygong rest stop. Just a truckies pull over, but we had a great sandwich and a cold beer. It was darn hot, lord alone knows how hot, but darn hot. When we got to the Hay Plains at least we didn't see the big watering systems going pumping precious water into the air, such an ineffective ... read more

When Shirley and Dave emailed to see if we wanted to join them for the Charles Stuart University Vintage Dinner (wine of course) to be held in Wagga Wagga on 9 November we of course accepted. It will be great to catch up with them again and we will also be joined by another friend Jenny - we haven't seen her since Dave's 60th birthday and that was coming up 10 years ago. With reference to our little friend on the right, he has been elusive since we came home in August - hiding all over the house. He has been told, he WILL be returning to WA very soon. Wagga Wagga, (pronounced Woga Woga and shortened to Woga for our overseas readers) is 963 kms away from where we live in Brinkworth. The van was ... read more