DAY 129 We woke up at Aire River, on a very cold and extremely wet morning; the weather just seemed to be getting worse. The tent was totally soaked, still we stuck it out, we were warm and dry in our camper trailer, it had rained most of the night and the wind gave us a real battering. In true Andy Trenfield style I still had my shorts and flip flops (thongs) on, there was not a chance of surrender. The day before the weather was so foul that we had considered getting a motel room or cabin, as the thought of being even colder than we were was not appealing. The reason for this extremely bad weather is a low pressure front heading down the west coast from Darwin is being pushed along by an ... read more

DAY 127 Scratch, Scratch, Scratch, we both sit up in bed hearing this sound and both exclaim “oh No, not those bl**dy Possums again”. I flicked the torch on as Andy jumped out of bed only to find a little pink snout lifting the tent flap and pressing up against the mosquito screen. Andy flicked it on the nose and it seemed to go away, however we could still hear the patter of feet and scratching in and around our house! Andy said its “3.00am, I am sick of this, why could they have not put a piece of Velcro all the way along the bottom of the flap? It would have saved us a few sleepless nights”. Andy got the two camping chairs and both were folded and laid across the back of the tent ... read more

Hey all, Amazing news, we are leaving Tasmania today and have to be packed up and gone at 10.00 am, we won't be done by then but we never rush. I got up at 6.30 am Australia Time on the 13th March, which is actually 7.30 pm on 12th Mach UK Time and by the time I had made myself a cup of tea and booted the machine up and Skyped my mum it was 7.00 am( Australia time) I looked at Kangaroojack at 7.02 and we have hit 10,000 Blog hits, which I think is absolutley amazing. The count is 147072 Words 1237 Photo's 10000 Blog Hits 1360 Hits this month 2750 Hits last month Who said blogging was going out of fashion. Thank you all for reading the drivel which we call Kangaroojack. Our ... read more

Day 124 We woke up at our free campsite to another beautiful morning, it was warm and the sun was strong. I got up and went to make tea, I asked Caroline if she wanted her first cup and she asked me what time it was, 7.20 I said, “give me another ten minutes!!” I sat outside at our table, piping hot tea steaming in the morning air, checking e-mails and uploading the blog for Kangaroo’s in bullet proof vests. We have had an e-mail from Vicki and Norm who have been reading our blog and are in the throws of planning their trip for six weeks in Tasmania. We had also had an email from Roz the daughter of Lionel and Janet who we first met at Singapore airport and then at their lovely beach ... read more

DAY 123 Please note: the contents of todays blog contains graphical details which have nothing to do with me, thanks. Caroline We both slept really well last night, but again we woke up to another bright warm and sunny morning, I got up first, taking our tea mugs etc to the camp kitchen, so that I could finish the blog off for An Elephant Ate My Pancakes, which we managed to upload and added the pictures to. A short while later Caroline joined me and we set about having tea and doing toast. Dam it the Marmite is nearly out, its 20 times better than Vegemite so we may need the red cross to fly us some in. When we went to pack up camp, I got talking to the guy next door who has a ... read more