Thursday October 25th 2012, Broken Hill After a very warm night, we have a nice lazy start to the day. It is now overcast, cool and breezy. We drive over to South Broken Hill to walk through historic Patton Street … Continue reading Red Dirt, Day 6 – Lime spiders, flying doctors & bush art
Wednesday October 24th Broken Hill A beautiful clear morning, Woody hooks up the TV aerial and the TV works a treat. After breakfast we head out to Silverton a little west of here. We turn off the made road and … Continue reading Red Dirt, Day 5 – Silverton
Way up on Broken Hill’s Line of Lode, where the tourists can wander there’s a museum of sorts. Bits and pieces of old mining equipment lay silent and rusting while many metres below work continues relentlessly. Continue reading Red Dirt, Day 4 (Contd) – Broken Hill Line of Lode
Tuesday 23rd October 2012 Mildura to Broken Hill Back on the road again and it’s only a short drive to Wentworth, passing through vineyards and groves of olives and oranges. We are fascinated by the contrast between the red desert … Continue reading Red Dirt, Day 4 – Mildura to Broken Hill
Monday 22nd October 2012 Mildura (Buronga, NSW) (0 Kms) We wake to the sound of birds walking on the roof, what a great alarm clock. It’s been lovely to open some of the pop top zippers for the first time and let the fresh air in. We have a lazy breakfast listening to the tooting of the PS Melbourne’s steam whistle, we can see her plying tourists back and forth, through our front window. The wondrous smell of the Murray River is in the air. A family of ducks beg for some slices of our bread. Woody comes home disappointed … Continue reading Red Dirt, Day 3 – Mildura
Sunday 21st October 2012 Charlton to Mildura (295Kms) We have a slow start, because we really don’t have to hurry. We leave at 9:45, it is a beautiful morning, but chilly. The road is straight and the paddocks are filled … Continue reading Red Dirt, Day 2 – Charlton to Mildura
Intro We purchased our first caravan upon retirement in 2012 and although we were seasoned campers and trailer sailors we were new to the caravanning caper, which I might add, is a unique combination of both those activities minus the … Continue reading Red Dirt, Day 1 – Melbourne to Charlton
101 Days 100 Nights 8752 Kms Fuel $1565.18 ($15.50 per day or 18 cents per km) Accommodation: $3240.95 ($32.41 per night) Breakages: Apart from the TV dying there were no major issues. That’s a first! Route: Tocumwal, 7 nights ‘under Covid stay in place rule’ Caravan Park Darlington Point, 1 night, CP Lake Cargelligo, 1 night, CP Trundle, 1 night, Showgrounds Ballimore, 1 night, Hair of the Dog Inn Pub Stay Narrabri, 1 night, CP Casino, 3 nights (waiting out the weather), CP Tallebudgera Creek, 2 nights, CP Somerset Park, 4 nights, Campgrounds Kenilworth, 6 nights, Showgrounds Kandanga, 3 nights, … Continue reading Capricorn Dancers, Summary Winter 2021
Day 101 Saturday 4/9/21 Hillston to Melbourne, wet cold What a shocker of a night that was. Apart from being hot and wet, as we turned out the lights two trucks pulled up beside us. One had livestock onboard and … Continue reading Capricorn Dancers, Day 101 – An anticlimax
Day 100 Friday 3/9/21 Barringun to Hillston, pleasant 26 light cloud We wake early after a quiet night. The whizzbang has already gone. We cross the border at 7:50 while the police and military are having breakfast by the fire. … Continue reading Capricorn Dancers, Day 100 – No Man’s Land
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