Day 3, Monday March 18th 2013, Newcastle to Port Macquarie We wake to a city washed clean by overnight rain and it was so cosy in the van. The wind has thankfully dropped out, so we have an early morning … Continue reading Newcastle to Port Macquarie
Day 2, Sunday March 17th 2013 Tarcutta to Newcastle We’re on the road by 8:30am and it’s a beautiful morning, the rolling hills and paddocks are green, and the rivers are draped with willows. At Yass, we stop to perform … Continue reading Tarcutta to Newcastle
This was Trip No. 4 for us. Our Viscount pop top had just had the side panels replaced and a new awning fitted after our altercation with a roadside fence. We were towing it with a Ford Territory. We had … Continue reading Let’s drive up to the Gold Coast
Apart from servicing your caravan, there are two very regular expenses that may slip under the radar when caravanning and those are camp chairs and shoes. Camping chairs need to be light so that they can easily be carried long … Continue reading Budgeted Caravan Expenses
Monday 21st January 2013 Clunes to Home Time to pack up and head for home. After losing an awning and our friend’s gorgeous little dog, that’s a holiday we’d prefer not to repeat. With hugs and tears, we pack up … Continue reading Weighing things up
Sunday 20th January 2013 Clunes A beautiful day, the wind has dropped at last, we’re in for a much more pleasant 34 degrees. We return to Talbot to see the market and load up with lots of goodies. The main … Continue reading Where there’s smoke
Day 10 Saturday 19th January 2013 Clunes A distraught T wakes us early, crying “She’s dead!”. Woody whose hearing hasn’t been good of late shouts “Oh my God! R is dead!” I’m still in bed and shout “It’s the dog!” What a shemozzle. To our shock, it’s the younger dog Holly that has passed away during the night from what we’ll never know. She had shown no signs of ill health other than a pungent fart in the car yesterday. When the park managers Barry and Mette rise we ask them if we can bury Holly and Mette suggests a … Continue reading Misheard
Day 9 Friday 18th January 2013 Clunes There is a strong cool wind blowing. We drive to Maldon via Majorca and Carisbrook. Maldon is looking a little tired at present, perhaps there is a chance for Clunes to take over … Continue reading The Volcanic Plains
Day 8 Thursday 17th January 2013 Clunes It’s a little cooler today, so we take a drive through the wheat fields to Smeaton passing the remnants of old gold mines. There is not much to see except for the Anderson Mill just out of town. It is five stories high and built of bluestone, what an engineering masterpiece it is, there is a long steel race that carries water from Birches Creek to the huge metal water wheel, which was built at the Victoria Foundry in Armstrong St, Ballarat. There is a lovely picnic ground shaded by deciduous trees and … Continue reading Anderson’s Mill
Day 7 Wednesday 16th January 2013 Clunes Before breakfast, we walk to the top of the town lookout and around the Port Phillip Gold Mine, there are nine mines dotted around the town precinct, but this was the first commercial … Continue reading Once was a pub
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