Day 6 Friday 20/12/2024 Euston – Buronga (Mildura) 29 (@ 9:00) – 38◦ It’s a warm clear cloudless morning as we head off towards Mildura on the Sturt Highway, which is on the NSW side of the river. The first … Continue reading A Merry Mildura Xmas – It just needs to float
Day 5 Thursday 19/12/2024 Euston, 15 – 34◦ Oh heaven, I was woken at 8:30 by a fly walking over my face. How good is it to have a sleep in? The joy of having a day off from driving … Continue reading A Merry Mildura Xmas – I’m Dreaming of a …Bush Xmas
Day 4 Wednesday 18/12/2024 Tooleybuc to Euston 30◦ I’m always amused at the names of the places around us and today it’s Wee Wee Rup, Goodnight and Bumbang Island. By the time we turned out the lights last night there … Continue reading A Merry Mildura Xmas – Euston, we haven’t a problem
Day 3 Tuesday 17/12/2024 Cohuna – Tooleybuc 23 – 30 Phew, that was a hot one! But we did manage to sleep well after 11:00pm. It isn’t much of a park being more of a fisherman’s camp with a lot … Continue reading A Merry Mildura Xmas – Hooley Dooley it’s Tooley
Inverell, Gwydir Highway, northern New South Wales. We had passed through this town several times before, grabbing a quick pie and remarking on how pretty the town was but continuing on, in haste to be somewhere else. This time we … Continue reading Sketches of – Inverell, NSW
Grenfell, Central West region of New South Wales We first stumbled upon Grenfell by pure chance. In October of 2020, we were tootling around NSW, the weather was good and unlike Victoria, NSW wasn’t in Covid lockdown. There was no … Continue reading Sketches of – Grenfell
Melbourne to Yeppoon and return, May to Aug 2023 Days 96, Nights 95. Distance travelled: 7812kms Accommodation: $2883.19, average $30.35 per night…a little more than normal due to rising prices at coastal caravan parks. At $49.52 our rate at Mulambin … Continue reading Yackety Yack, Winter 2023 – Trip Summary
Day 95 Friday 11/8/2023 Mt Hope to Jerilderie, becoming cloudy 2 – 16 There are 4 vans camped at the hall and another 8 campsites on the common. The amenities here are old but clean and there is soap! It’s … Continue reading Yackety Yack, Day 95 – El Prado was right, it’s a ripper!
Day 94 Thursday 10/8/2023 Bourke to Mt Hope, clear 6 – 19 It’s a bright clear ‘make you feel good’ morning and it’s already 19 degrees at 9:00am. We had a good sleep last night and there was no traffic … Continue reading Yackety Yack, Day 94 – Full of Hope
Day 93 Wednesday 9/8/2023 Hebel to Bourke, clear sunny 6 – 24 We wake to a cool clear morning and Woody grabs a coffee from the general store to kick start the morning. And the coffee is as good as … Continue reading Yackety Yack, Day 93 – Out the back o’ Bourke
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