Winter 2017, Sunshine Coast Hinterland, Qld While staying nearby we drive to Imbil, the town with the desirable dump point (as there isn’t one where we are camped at Kandanga). On delightful Yabba Creek, Imbil is marginally larger than Kandanga. … Continue reading Imbil
The Kinchega Woolshed is in the Kinchega National Park on the Darling River just south of Menindee in NSW. The woolshed was built in 1875 and in its heyday wool was loaded onto barges and sent down the Murray Darling … Continue reading Kinchega Woolshed
Thoona according to the publican is the town that is in the middle of nowhere but close to everywhere and indeed it is, as it is about 30kms from either Benalla or Wangaratta in Victoria. The Thoona pub commands a view of the town of 70 or so people, a general store that opens most mornings and the imposing Mt Meg across the paddocks. Prunus trees are pink with spring blossom, canola fields are golden and a genial publican keeps the fire burning in the bar. The old girl was rebuilt after a fire in 1894 and has suffered a … Continue reading Thoona Pub
This Camp Kitchen must mean the stuff that makes you laugh a lot, so gin is obviously allowed. And tequila, yes tequila that’s guaranteed to make me morose… OK folks break out the tequila and lets have a weep! Continue reading No Alchohol
It’s happy hour and we’re beside a tidal creek where pelicans fish, up and down the river with the tide. You could say that we are a little relaxed. Our mate Vee Wee is cross that the kids haven’t rung to wish her a happy Mother’s Day. Then we realise that Mother’s Day is the following week. Being a senior is a bit like having several Mother’s Days really. Continue reading Are We Losing It?
Don’t you just hate that feeling when you go for a Sunday drive discover a nice spot and wish that you could stay a few nights, then realise that you’re actually on a picnic and the caravan is back home, … Continue reading Something’s Missing
Port Douglas, Winter 2014 We have new neighbours in a large camper ute that is wider than the site that they are on. While we chat ‘Pete’ starts hacking at the shrubbery, our pretty little dividing garden, and small palms are dug up and despatched to the rubbish bin so that more guy ropes can be pegged in. Hmmm. After they leave for ‘the Cape’ the management remove a rather large palm tree that Pete has felled in his efforts to create the perfect camp site. At least shrubbery grows quickly in this climate. Continue reading Pineapple Pete
August 2017 We’re back in Tocumwal and we wake to the sounds of the Murray, a million birds shrieking and singing, a rowdy cacophony. It brings back so many memories, the warmth of a tent on a summer morning and … Continue reading Terminus Hotel, Tocumwal
“…close my eyes and drift away…” Lazy Sunday by the Small Faces A warm spring afternoon and a belly full of fish courtesy of the fishermen at the boat ramp, these guys weren’t going anywhere. Continue reading Lazy Sunday Afternoon
Why not reduce costs and use the local granite boulders as walls? Frankly I think that the builders were onto a good thing when they built these masterpieces at the Melville Caves in Victoria, less concrete, less bricks and a … Continue reading Dunnies of Oz – Melville Caves
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