Day 19 Monday 14/6/21 Somerset Dam, fog sunny 5 – something nice This is one of those rare places where we can lie in bed with the blind open (there’s only one other van in this section of the park) … Continue reading Capricorn Dancers, Day 19 – Esk
Day 18 Sunday Palm Beach to Somerset Dam, sunny 21 There’s frost on the car this morning. Being Sunday, the motorway is not backed up which is a blessing but today we’re going to bypass Brisbane going via the west. … Continue reading Capricorn Dancers, Day 18 – A piece of paradise
Meeniyan Recreation Reserve, $10 per night, Meeniyan, Vic As tempting as it is to keep returning to favourite places it is more rewarding finding new ones. We’ve all got our favourite places, the ones we keep going back to but … Continue reading Those Faraway Places
The fourth in a series of however many, romancing the freedom camping lifestyle. If you are curious about freedom camping read on. From Cooktown it was down to the well-known Rocky Creek campground on the Atherton Tableland. The campground is one enormous living memorial to the field hospital that was here during World War Two that tended to the wounded of the battles in Papua New Guinea and the Pacific. Filled with history we headed off to Queensland’s highest town Ravenshoe on the top of the Great Dividing Range where we camped at the old railway station in the rain, … Continue reading Freedom with options aplenty #4
Nov 2013, Jamieson, Vic We follow the now wild Goulburn River towards the town of Kevington. Skipworth Reserve is a jaw dropper, one of the best. It’s a large park with shady ash trees and plenty of mown lawn. There are new drop toilets and concrete fireplaces with BBQ plates attached. There is a phone number nailed to a tree for the local wood man who delivers dry firewood, what a good service. The Goulburn River skirts the park and the sound of the rapids and the huge cicadas is both deafening and wondrous. There are about eight other vans … Continue reading Finding Skipworth
The third in a series of however many, romancing the freedom camping lifestyle. If you are curious about freedom camping read on. We had fallen in love with Yamba on a previous trip to Queensland but nearby Woody Head National Park turned out to be heaven, heaven with brush turkeys that is. On a roll we spent a night at Mullumbimby Leagues Club (ticking footy clubs now) and decided that perhaps we wouldn’t buy dinner in the clubhouse. On the positive side, a few weeks later we decided to try our first Pub Stay and were hooked. Tracey welcomed us … Continue reading Freedom with options aplenty #3
“Oh, so this comes in a series does it?” “Maybe.” Discovering the joys of freedom camping and following on from ‘Freedom with options aplenty’. After a tentative start, one could say that we took to freedom camping with gay abandon. There’s a lot more to caravanning than Caravan Parks. At the Bass Valley Campground near Poowong we were surrounded by tall timber and just landed young backpackers in rental cars and brand-new tents with barely a sentence of English between them. A few days later we escaped Traralgon and bushfire smoke* at Paradise Beach, camped in the dunes on the … Continue reading Freedom with options aplenty #2
I was recently trying to explain ‘freedom’ camping to a cousin at a family reunion. The caravanners in the group nodded sagely but this particular cousin is probably still scratching her head and wondering what on earth we all get up to when out on the road. Some caravanners choose to stay in caravan parks but not long after we bought our first pop top caravan we made the decision to explore other options. Caravan Parks, National Parks, Showgrounds, Freedom Camps, Farm Stays, Pub Stays and Rest Areas. In fact, it’s hard not to include the odd rest area if … Continue reading Freedom with options aplenty
Nov 2019, Heyfield, Vic Just 22kms north of Rosedale, Heyfield in Victoria’s Gippsland region is larger than we had imagined. There’s a pub, two cafes, Chinese and Indian restaurants, a baker and a butcher who is a new bloke to … Continue reading Heyfield RV Stop Spot
Day 64, 15/9/2019 Sunday Jugiong to Merton, icy to cloudy then wet -1.6 to 18 3 months since we set off on our fateful trip to Darwin and what a crazy 3 months it’s been. We wake at 5:30 it’s … Continue reading Follow the Sun – Jugiong to Merton
