Beachcombing requires a sturdy pair of legs and an awareness of tides and that’s where the Willy Weather app comes in. With caravanning when you often find yourself in a different region every other day you need to keep a … Continue reading Willy Weather App
My favourite time of the day in the caravan is late at night when everyone is asleep. I like to do a crossword or sudoku or a little macrame and just listen to the night noises, the call of an owl, the surf in the distance. Now, just for a minute imagine the sound of a plywood cupboard door slamming. Now imagine that multiplied and echoing around a lightly built caravan (of plywood and thin plastic held together with glue and staples) when a couple of not so happy campers arrive late after a too long drive and start banging … Continue reading A bang in the night
I found this handsome fellow clinging to a signpost beside the Yarra River at Warburton, Vic. He was about the length of my index finger so it’s no wonder that the kookaburra that we’d spotted earlier was having trouble devouring one. Continue reading Cicada – Redeye
How long is it since we last visited this part of the Yarra Valley? Quite possibly Queens Birthday 2014 when we stayed with mates at Healesville prior to heading off on our first big trip. The Gulf trip, the one … Continue reading Warburton in spring
Day 64, 15/9/2019 Sunday Jugiong to Merton, icy to cloudy then wet -1.6 to 18 3 months since we set off on our fateful trip to Darwin and what a crazy 3 months it’s been. We wake at 5:30 it’s … Continue reading Follow the Sun – Jugiong to Merton
Sep 2019, Jugiong, NSW A small village. A wine cellar, The Long Track Pantry café, a cop shop, a stark white church on the hill and a pub the Sir George. Across the road a vast open space, the Recreation … Continue reading Follow the Sun – Jugiong
A big thank you to the very kind reader who has nominated my blog for the Bloggers Bash Awards of 2019 Best Travel Blog. Is it a travel blog or the memoir of a misguided meanderer? That I can’t say. I do subscribe to the theory that only dementia can steal your travel memories. So, if the unthinkable happens, I’ll at least be able to enjoy reading the travels of someone of whom I don’t know. Continue reading Bloggers Bash Awards 2019
Mar 2019, somewhere in the south east If you haven’t already guessed we’re travelling in convoy. Across Gippsland and up the Sapphire Coast. The usual suspects, ourselves (Ukulele Lady & Woody), El & Elle Prado (Brown Rice Boy), Toothless Johnno … Continue reading Looks like we’ve got us a convoy
Mar 2019, Genoa, Vic If Autumn symbolises the nearing of the end, the decline. Then we have timed our visit to Genoa perfectly. Once known for being the last town in Victoria before the Princes Highway crosses into New South … Continue reading Genoa Rest Area
Barry Beach in Gippsland, Vic, services Victoria’s offshore oil and gas platforms out in Bass Strait. There’s not a lot to see without a visitor permit but we did stumble across this giant under construction. Oil and gas platform, Barry Beach, Vic Continue reading They build ‘em big at Barry Beach
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