Mar 2019, Genoa, Vic This little guy is a Tetrapod and this is a life sized sculpture of what he could have looked like. Back in 1971 what is believed to be tetrapod footprints were found in the Genoa River … Continue reading Tiny Footprints
July 2017, Ballina, NSW If I’m not dragging poor Woody around cemeteries looking for long lost ancestors we’re looking at intriguing graves or reading headstones to get an understanding of the history of an area. One could say that this … Continue reading Cemetery Curiosities
July 2017, Ballina, NSW Winter on the south and east coasts is whale watching time and it’s not unusual to see the tell-tale spouts on the horizon. Even more rewarding is to see them close to shore. Continue reading Whale Watching
We had been meandering down back roads all morning and stopped for a sandwich in a park. This is one of the nice things about travelling with a caravan. Everything is at your fingertips, fridge, freezer and a pantry full of goodies. It is so easy to just pull up and start making lunch with everything that you need with you in the van and a pleasant view to go with it. Continue reading Lunch in the park, any park
It’s only when we come home from a trip that I realise how little we lived with on the road. No dishwasher and just a tiny sink in which the dishes must be washed really fast, as the sink plug sometimes leaks. A 9kg gas bottle seems to last us 3 to 4 months for all our cooking and when free camping our hot water as well. We tend to cook lighter faster meals on the road and eat healthier. Whereas at home in the cold weather we do tend to cook hearty casseroles and cakes. To conserve water, showers … Continue reading A smaller eco footprint
Our mate Toothless Johnno is a man of many talents and to the list we can now add Bee Catcher. What do you do you when you’re out in the scrub and wild bees get into your water tanks? You take things into your own hands that’s what. After all a man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do. Continue reading The Bees Knees
Mar 2015, Minnipa, SA When people say that the Nullarbor is boring and best overwith I know that they haven’t yet seen Pildappa Rock. The breeze whispers around this large granite outcrop giving a feeling of complete tranquility. Climbing it is easy and the views to the horizon of wheatfields and the Gawler Ranges is superb. Freedom camping is available so there’s no need to rush, become one with this mighty mammoth and breath in the splendour. Continue reading Pildappa Rock
May 2016, Near Lightning Ridge, NSW The Grawin Opalfields is a short drive from Lightning Ridge (about 80kms) and well worth the visit for the pubs and the humour. If you are a fossicker there are public dumps available to noodlers. Need an explanation? Well the professional opal miners dump their unwanted tailings at a public dump. Amateur fossickers must never trespass on mine sites but they may fossick or noodle at these public dumps. Read the signs carefully and only noodle where it is specifically allowed. Fossickers do find small pieces of opal at these places. I have no … Continue reading Noodling at Grawin Opalfields
June 2016, Clermont, Qld We’ve seen thousands of crazy letter boxes and the like but this takes the cake. Continue reading What to do with an old dozer
Mar 2018, Kapunda, SA Kapunda, home to Woody’s Great Great Grandfather for 30 years in the 1800’s is looking neglected and run down. When copper was discovered here it saved the fledgling colony of South Australia from bankruptcy. Now Kapunda appears to be struggling to survive. The Main Street still has a lot of original buildings but not many bustling businesses. I visit the Info Centre and their resident historian whisks me upstairs and helps me locate on town maps where the family owned sections of land. Once we are back in the car and drive along the Main Street … Continue reading Finding Francis
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