Hi guys! just to let you know that we are back online and hope to catch up on photos and will update yesterdays blog as soon as we can. We are just about to drive to Coonabarabran. The T's... read more

Day 67 Today sees us moving out of Glenn Innes and on to Moree. I had in fact intended on bypassing Moree to drive straight to Narrabri, however Robin mentioned that Moree was worth a visit. So after packing away the tent, saying our goodbyes to Robin and Helen, we hit the road towards Inverell, this time filling up with Diesel and making sure that the Jerry can was also full with Diesel, we are not filling the sub tank yet as there is no need while we are in areas that have plenty of fuel stations. Away on the 38 the scenery and the temperature started to change, we were now coming down from the high altitude and coming back to 217metres above sea level, rather than the height of Snowdonia. The terrain was opening ... read more

Day 65 With our lunch box packed we headed off to the Gwydir Highway and the Washpool and Gibralter Range National Parks. First stop was Boundary Creek, about 400metres walk down some steps there is a spectacular tropical looking lagoon with a waterfall. Something about it look perfect, even with the old deadwood that was lying in the lagoon as if it had been placed there deliberately. It may have been for all we know, however a common occurence here is that trees fall over and they are left on the landscape for its natural decomposition. Walking back up to the truck, this was a very short walk but very steep, we met a couple from Grafton who were just having a day trip in the Parks, they were photographing a Ground Orchid, a solitary Orchid ... read more

Dear all, In response to a couple of text messages that we have had. If you have not had chance to wade your way through our blog you may not have seen that we are having issues with our laptop. We are currently in Glenn Innes awaiting a Dell Engineer to come and do a warranty repair on our laptop, this has affected our ability to log onto internet, update blog and skype. We have only been able to update blog because the kind Robin and Helen at Craigieburn are letting us use the pc in their office. We expect to see an engineer tomorrow (Monday) providing global communications with the Phillipines works! Otherwise the laptop will be personally delivered to the Dell office in Sydney. Our plans from Tuesday should be to drive to Inverell ... read more

Day 64 Again I am forced to make handwritten notes as the laptop is still intermittently playing up. Fortunately Helen and Robin here at Craigieburn Camp Site in Glenn Innes are more than accomodating in allowing us update the blog using the pc in their office. However we are having some problems with photographs. Today we drove out to Boolabinda Homestead on Bullock Mountain as I wanted to do some fossicking and as we had already tried a reserve that was open to the public at Glencoe, it was so overgrown Andy was concerned that if you went through the long grass to the waters edge one of us was bound to get bitten by a snake and with my track record it would have been me! We turned the truck around and drove back through ... read more