JacnRus

We left Perth bright and early and drove up to Kings Park to visit the War Memorial and it also has the best view of Perth. The weather was kind to us again being sunny and 21deg. Kings Park is a definite visit just to get an appreciation of the city. The memorial is pretty awesome too. The parkland is the largest inner city park in the world, with walking tracks all the way through. There were many joggers, cyclists, mums with prams and tourists all enjoying the park. After a quick refill of the radiator, yes we are still losing water, we headed out for Fremantle. Just across the river “Freeo” is not unlike Port Adelaide with many old historic buildings. Our first stop was to find a double car park ???? As it was ... read more

80 Mile Beach is one of the best places we have been yet. Jac and Matt gave it 10/10. Quaint little caravan park nestled amongst a cattle station, along a small red dusty access road, right on the beach. The majority were powered sites, trees and GRASS!!! Jac was in heaven. The people staying in the park were almost all ‘grey nomads’ and extremely friendly and more than happy to give you some fishing tips. Next day we drove along the beach for 14kms to our own patch of private beach and setup our fishing gear at the bottom of low tide. Tides that day was about 8m of change. The incoming tide is the best to catch the famous threadfin salmon, so we cast in our frozen pilchards on our lines and waited. And ... read more

Kakadu to Darwin then Katherine Okay, so there is quite a bit of travel to be covered here. We would have blogged earlier, however we were BUSY in Darwin and there is no OPTUS coverage from Katherine to Broome. Maybe TELSTRA for then next outback trip .... So our last day in Kakadu we left our van set up at Jabiru and headed off to the East Alligator River. We checked out Cahill's Crossing which is the only access to Arnhem Land via road. The river was about 50cm deep, pretty easy for any 4WD, however we would have to get a permit to go into the brother's land. So we drove to the jetty to board the Guluyambi Boat Cruise. It was excellent, our guide, Neville, from Arnhem Land, took us down stream to Cahill's ... read more

Hello again. We left Coober Pedy and 'the brothers' this morning, what a dusty place that is. Onward to Curtin Springs.... past a few emus racing along the side of the road and also a HUGE Eagle, bravely guarding his road kill. Not much else to see along the way. Stopped at Kulgara Station for fuel, had to leave Jac in the shop for collateral just in case we drove off. Apparantly the station was infested with mice and stunk, glad i didn't have to go in. Almost at Curtin Springs Station and the kids yelled out "there is Ayers rock, we can see Ayers Rock"! Yes, we were all getting very excited, although I didn't think we were close enough. Later inspection tells us that it is Mount Connor an equally amazing rock formation, just ... read more

Hi guys, its Jane and Rus here and we just wanted to tell you that were going round Australia in our camper with our family and we are going to blog all of our adventures right here! In our family there are Jac (mum), Rus (dad), Jane, Matt and Ben (kids). On our trip we are going to see the crocs and the dolphins, were going to climb Ayers rock and staying underground in a hotel, participating in a beanie festival and doing LOTS of fishing!!!! Below is our itinery. We will blog every 3-4 days with all our adventures from the different locations along with some pictures. With Love, Rus and Jane. Woomera-473 Coober Pedy-375 Curtain springs-600 Alice springs-349 Devils marbles-406 Kakadu-Gunlom-315 -Jim jim-95 Darwin-259 Katherine-320 Kununurra-512 Bungles bungles-320 Ellendale rest area-580 Broome-310 80 mile ... read more