Blogs from Hawks Nest, New South Wales, Australia, Oceania

Well, where will I start, probably at 7.30am when we left on Friday 11/02/11! unfortunatley I had a client to see at Booral which is near stroud on The Bucketts Way, so The Moth dropped me off and he was to head for a game of golf, but he decided to drop The Ark at the van park and explore the surrounding areas and come and collect me at 2pm-well I had hoped the usual finish time with this client, but not this time, a few issues but was out of there at 4pm, always the way when you are heading off somewhere. Because The Ark is so old it can't be put up by one person, 2 can do it but if any one offers to help we don't say no! So we arrive at ... read more

Its the second week of the tour, and we have wheels!! We bought a 1989 Ford Falcon stationwagon from a car dealer, for about $4000 (about 1800 pounds), and was previously given the name "snoopy" by its previous owners. Now for those of you who thought that we were going to buy a campervan, this turned out to be more expensive that we thought, and would have cost us even more in maintainance. So we opted for this car, which has enough space in it to put a double mattress (once we have the back seats down), and will save us a lot of money in accomodation. Having said that, the camp sites are only about $20 per entry/night, so thats not too bad. We have bought sleepingbags, cooking equiptment, tent (given through dave), and we ... read more