Toyota Landcruiser Club End of year round up 21/23/11/2014 Well it’s Friday again and today we were heading off to Seabird, which is about 1½ hours North of Perth for our Toyota Landcruiser Club End of year round up. The club are specific that it is not a Christmas Party, but an end of year gathering of members to celebrate our charitable achievements, personal achievements, prize giving, and of course to have a great meal, a bit of all round fun amongst friends. We know Seabird from nearly six years ago as our friends Cliff and Sue Graham took us on a trip up there. Its also a sad time as this will be the very last time we travel with Gypsy as she is due to leave us on Wednesday 26 November for her 4,000 ... read more

Today, is our 6th Anniversary that we set foot in Australia, Don't be confused about our last blog, (Flying Time) that was six years to the day of when we left home, you may remember we had a few days in Singapore to get rid of jet lag before the final flight to Australia, so as I said, we rocked up in this new country wide eyed and looking for adventure. I have just looked at the blog entries and there isn't a blog for today (6 years Ago) but there is 2 dated 13/11/2008, one called little India, which just happens to be our biggest visited blog with 4210 hits and day 4/5 Brisbane, when we touched down in Brisbane, again dated 13/11 which is technically incorrect as it should be dated12/11/2008. Just for clarity, ... read more

A little while ago we ran a 4Wheel drive club trip called Bush Cocktails and Camp Ovens at Harvey and during this trip we visited a little winery in Yarloop called Skipworth wines. We had such a good experience with the owner of this vineyard that we just had to tell our friends about it and go back. So we decided to run a half day trip to Yarloop so we could go to the winery and organised to meet the attending members of the Toyota Landcruiser Club at the Pinjarra Bakery as usual, which I think is always a good place to start a trip from someone had said we ought to get “Frequent Pie Eater points” for the times we have spent in this bakery. I was up at 5.00 am and had prepared ... read more

Aussie Import 25 & 26th January 2015 Sunday morning arrived and the day of our Australia day celebrations, we had set a breakfast date with everyone for 7.30 with the same guests we had for dinner last night Everybody dutifully arrived, (except for Brian and Nesta, who’s excuse was they cannot remember me advising them we would do breakfast) and we cooked for another 12 hungry campers, eggs bacon, sausage, grilled tomatoes and toast. We all then regrouped over to the TLCC membership area as the Cricket matches had started at 8.00am. Now Australia day is a big day, it’s all about celebrating Australia’s identity, meats pies, lamingtons, cricket and generally having fun, historically it’s when the first fleet of British ships landed in 1788 at Port Jackson. It is celebrated on 26thJanuary but as most ... read more

After a tough week at work another weekend arrived, yay! This weekend is meant to be a little more relaxing of late to allow Andy to get plenty of rest. We should have been away with the 4wheel drive club on a training weekend, but they would be two very long and full on days so we needed to opt out. It didn’t stop us from getting out anyway, it just meant our weekend would not be so hectic, we hope. With the chores done, groceries obtained last night, washing was done and hanging on the line, we headed out with a packed lunch. Our intention on the day was to head up toward Toodyay, but maybe not quite as we wanted to visit Noble Falls, a place that we camped at nearly 5 ½ years ... read more