Our friends like to camp in the National Park nearby. They hooked up the van one weekend and took off down the road. They’d only travelled three kilometres when a stone bounced off the van and broke the rear window of their four wheel drive. As luck would have it they’re farmers so they just turned around went home and hooked up another 4WD from the shed. Continue reading It’s Handy to Have a Backup
The noise of our neighbours generator forces us indoors and we start to wonder why they need a generator these days anyway. It turns out that they are powering a microwave, hairdryer and two Waeco fridges. But why? The fridges can be powered by 12 volt. The 12 volt system can be topped up by solar power. In cold weather gas and diesel heating will make a caravan cosy in minutes. If it’s too cold to air dry your hair there’s always the car heater. And who needs the chicken defroster anyway? Continue reading Gen Why?
Both the church and a restaurant in Denham, WA are built from shell grit bricks called Coquina.Behind the dusty caravan park at Hamelin Pool is the shell grit quarry where the bricks have been sawn since the 1800’s. They still … Continue reading Shell Grit
Showgrounds can be an excellent campground choice when you want to be close to town with power and water but without the trimmings. They are usually a little cheaper than caravan parks and roomy enough for big rigs like buses … Continue reading Kingaroy Showgrounds
Woody galloped over to the showers at 6:00am as usual then once shampooed and showered, went on to the laundry with our washing basket. Greeting him in the laundry was our park neighbour with every machine filled and another load waiting in front of each one.”Oh” she says “you can use those two over there.” “Not much use to me” says Woody “they’re both dryers.” “We’ve been on the road for five weeks.” she counters, as if we haven’t. Next morning Woody gets up at 6:00am and loads the washing machines…before he showers. Continue reading Washing Day
Roma is the home of the bottle tree. Not to be confused with the Boab and more consistent in their shape, Bottle trees live to a very old age and it is said that trees that were recorded by the … Continue reading Roma Bottle Trees
We spend most of the afternoon in the ‘phone’ shop with much heated discussion about data usage. We are told by said staff that we should make our communications using the free WIFI at McDonald’s. Well doh! We’ve been on the road 3 weeks and the only icons we’ve seen on the horizon are grain silos not golden arches …..I guess they just don’t understand the life of grey nomads. Utterly frustrated we make it back to our camp for happy hour and meet a great bunch of travellers who also spend very little of their time in large towns. Continue reading Free WIFI?
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