Day 78 Not so up and at’em this morning, we had trouble getting our lazy ars*s out of bed as last night was a terrific storm, lightening, no rain but what I could only describe as a mini Cyclone. It was so humid I lay on the bed all night, at around 1.30am the wind was blowing right through the camper trailer and strangely enough the wind was really warm. The tent poles are rattling and the awning was blowing, I was sure Caroline was going to suggest I go out side and have a check around, she likes to do that to me in the middle of the night you know. We are staying on this fairly tiny Camp site in Forbes, a Big 4 at Lachlan view, by the river. We were asked to ... read more

Day 76 Up early showered and shaved, I am still persevering with my cut throat razor, and am getting the close shave I like, I haven’t cut off an ear or anything yet so all is going well. I don’t know what I am going to do when I run out of my stock of Taylor’s of Old Bond Street shaving cream, and alum block, I will have to find a supplier some where over here. It probably takes me three times longer to shave this way, but it just seems so worth it, we all have our little pleasantries that make us feel good. We had a light brecky and headed off to Taronga Zoo here in Dubbo, the weather was cool and cloudy so a good day to see animals active, we had heard ... read more

DAY 74 20th January 2009 I was up a 6.00am, out the swag, Instantly putting the kettle on. There were around 15 Kangaroos just milling around, as much as I wanted to watch them I needed to get on. The Camelbak, which is a ruck sack with a built in bladder that you put fluid in, had to be packed with first aid kits, camera, knife, survival equipment, and all the other paraphernalia for any eventuality. Caroline got out of the swag just after me, the tea was already done so she got down to making the sandwiches. Today we were going to walk in the national park up to the rock formation they call the Bread Knife. All this area was formed millions of years ago and the bread knife was formed by magma, squeezing ... read more

Day 72 Coonabarabran was a little jewel in this trip; it was a smashing little town that we really enjoyed. I have to say that the night star gazing, with Peter Starr was a memorable moment in my existence on the planet. The small campsite we were on “The John Oxley” was just great it all seemed to gel together. We had met 3 guys who were contractors (Riggers) working on huge mast for Vodafone, who are not really a big player over here, but they are increasing the network coverage. We had got taking to Peter, who was the site supervisor, a nice pleasant man, he was always good to talk to. His other site mates were Phil and Tim, two equally pleasant fella’s who we whiled away some time with. They were good enough ... read more

Day 70 We have been away 70 days today, and it’s gone in the blink of an eye, 10 weeks so far that’s just amazing. Coonabarabran is the Australian capital of Astronomy and we wanted to find out why, from my simplistic views we knew the night sky here was big and clear so today we were going to get amongst it. I had already booked us in for star gazing tonight, about 9 kilometres from town at the Warrumbungle Observatory, which is privately owned, we are both looking forward to it. As we were leaving this morning Caroline found a huge spider, just hiding, inside the folds of the trailer cover, obviously wanting to get out of the sun. This bloke was big, and ugly but I don’t think it was the venomous type. First ... read more