Feb 2016, Rutherglen Caravan & Tourist Park, Rutherglen, Vic Plovers, herons, magpies and mudlarks. Corellas play in the trees, the lake shimmers and changes by the hour. A pelican spends his day perched on a branch. A mismatched family of domestic ducks swim about. There are purple moorhens and white faced coots and every evening the setting sun reflects pink across the water. Continue reading Lake King
Winter 2016, Toowoomba, Qld We leave Jondaryan on Queenslands’ Darling Downs and before our bums have been warmed by the heated seats we’ve hit the outskirts of Toowoomba and boy it is larger than we had expected. With excitement we … Continue reading Toowoomba
Having diesel or gas heating in a caravan means that in cold weather you can still enjoy the natural beauty of freedom camps rather than paying top dollar for a campsite in a Caravan Park just to be able to plug into their power. We’ve owned our caravan Priscilla for close to five years and she’s probably around six years old. As her layout and size suit us quite well we’d prefer not to upgrade as we figure that she and us will probably wear out at about the same time anyway. Because of her age we had decided not … Continue reading Seduced by Diesel Heating
Winter 2016, Coolangatta, Qld Is it really 57 years since I slurped slushies from the life saving kiosk on Greenmount beach as a 10 year old? We stop for a beer at the old timber Rainbow Bay Surf Life Saving … Continue reading Rainbow Bay SLSC
While slurping away happily on a $5 bubbly beside a Queensland campfire Elle Prado and I chat to a couple who are Victorian vignerons and they shyly tell us that they would love to do more caravanning but their award-winning vineyard has kept them too busy. I have a sneaking suspicion and later do a Google search and sure enough their vineyard supplies a very well known winery with a particular variety of grape. In fact, the best of this variety of grapes in Australia and if you want to try it you’ll have to fork out $130 – 199 … Continue reading Let’s Keep It a Secret
June 2018, Ingham, Qld A few minutes out of Ingham, Qld and hidden amongst sugar cane farms is a beautifully maintained cemetery but not your ordinary Aussie cemetery. This one has mausoleums (not common in Australia), large marble graves and … Continue reading Ingham’s Italian Cemetery
May 2018, heading north We rock along the Kidman Way north of Bourke listening to ‘Macca on a Sunday’ on ABC radio and singing along to ‘The monkey sings soprano round Stanthorpe in July’. Now there’s a meaningful song title … Continue reading It’d freeze the walls off a bark humpy
Spring 2018, Loch, Vic West Gippsland is all rolling hills dotted with contented dairy cows and the tiny village of Loch is little more than an hour from Melbourne (80 minutes from the CBD). The Reserve is a sports ground … Continue reading Loch Memorial Reserve
Spring 2018, Loch, Vic Escaping from our caravan park on a wintry Spring Sunday afternoon we visited the Gippsland Wine Company at Loch to be pampered by our gracious hosts Mark and Jane. We not only tasted their range but … Continue reading Gippsland Wine Company
Fellow travel bloggers, you know the feeling when you think “God what am I going to write about this place?”. And it dawns on you that that is the very story. Spring 2018, Somewhere in West Gippsland, Vic Our caravan club September Muster had been planned for Griffith in Southern NSW but was quickly changed to nearby West Gippsland when most members voted not to drive north when they’d only just returned from up that way in their long winter travels. The selected caravan park had been a charming spot when visited nine years earlier. A few members were wandering … Continue reading Soggy as…
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