Over these last two nights we have seen some pretty cool spots in Broken Hill. We hit up a couple of galleries that had some quite unique gear and headed out to Silverton to check out the Mad Max 2 museum, some more bloody galleries and then lastly, the highlight, Silverton Hotel. Actually an equal highlight was the Royal Flying Doctors Service tour of the Broken Hill operation. It was great as are the people that work there! The kids and Pia braved the pool at the caravan park and we discovered another game to upset the balance – Pass the Pigs. Which, being a pretty blatant gambling game of chance, proved to be quite the effective way of helping the kids improve their rapid calculation skills. Chuck it in the National curriculum, I say. In ... read more

Another lazy start today. After 9am because Suz (?) was hungover.... We had a few repairs to make to various bits of kit so a stop to Ho,me Hardware sorted us out before we were on the road. We saw a lot of wheat being grown/farmed but not a lot else. That being said, as I was driving, I wasn't looking too hard. To further prove my age I spent the majority of the trip listening to Radio National as it was the only station I could get for more than five minutes. We breezed through a few towns, one for fuel but didn't hang about. We have ended up at a pretty cool salt lake (at this stage by ourselves) in the Lake Gilles Conservation Park. It was around a 10km dirt track,which was good ... read more

'Twas a short drive of 404km from the rest stop to our next camp. We are back on the Eyre Highway tracing our tracks back toward Ceduna. We were planning to push through to the Nullabor Roadhouse but the 40 degree temperature saw us take a smarter option and stop at Border Village for a cold drink. The old Maverick has the old style of air con – four wind down windows! While we were getting the drinks, I noticed a pool behind the first lot of units. A casual "how much for an unpowered site?" was met with "$15". Brilliant! And we got to use the pool (awesome), and there was a bar (Bundy Rum – whooooot) and we could have camp fires. Besides the flying cockroaches and other bugs, it was near perfect and ... read more

I am writing this at stupid o'clock in the morning on Thursday sitting in the warm sun as I look at the beautiful view of the mainbeachat Esperance – well if I lean my head to the right and up a bit so I can see over the toilet block and dump point. Hahahaha. We got in pretty late on the first night so not much to report. We did put the awning up on the tent for the first time though. Plenty of swearing and cursing and putting the wrong pole in then needing to back track, but we go there in the end! Monday was spent looking at some of the sights in Esperance. We did a loop drive that went to all of the main beaches and lookouts. It was pretty special really. ... read more

Where to begin...I know. Rain! Seriously, I am going to write a strong worded email to someone about this! But in all seriousness, the eco-friendly campground is great, the people are friendly and the local area has heaps to see. We have said quite a few times that we could stay for a week in a lot of the places we spend a short time in. Friday night was fairly quiet but Saturday was great! We went for a look out to the surf beach and saw a couple of young fellas get a good ride and a couple of braver souls further out struggling in the confused swell. We headed back to Busselton and had a fish off the jetty which netted the grand total of five fish – all stinking Toadfish and all for ... read more