Scrags In The Outback | The outback adventures of Smash and Trundle

7 Dec

Day 119 – The last day! Horsham to Canberra… Home!

Smash somehow woke us up from the comfort of our cozy bed at the Rasmussen abode at 5am (yes, 5am!) and we left Ian to sleep in and got on the road super early to tackle our 902km day. Trundle...
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6 Dec

Day 118 – Horsham-bound to the Rasmussen Ranch

Woke up to an awesome view across the valley and plains and water in the morning with the sunrise at Hancock’s Lookout. Smashing out the drive today – 722km on the clock today to get us to the Rasmussen villa...
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5 Dec

Day 117 – Nullarbor: Bunda Cliffs to Hancocks Lookout

Last day on the Nullarbor! It was a lot quicker and less painful than we had anticipated, which was nice. Nullarbor translated means no trees, and the Nullarbor Plain is exactly that. Well lots of scrub. But definitely no trees....
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4 Dec

Day 116 – Nullarbor, Norseman to Bunda Cliffs

First day on the Nullarbor! Feels good! Pretty intensely straight roads right from the start – then we hit the 90 Mile Straight. 146km of dead straight road, the longest straight stretch in Australia. That was straight. Very...
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3 Dec

Day 101-115 – South West Region

Just a post to give a quick sum up of the week and a bit spent in the beautiful Margaret River region and surrounds with our respective lads which was awesome! Trundle and Finn took the Renault and Smash and...
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18 Nov

Day 100 – Cape Le Range

We made it to day 100! Exciting stuff. We calculated that we’ve travelled around 20,000km so far – which is halfway around the world! And 5% of the way to the moon. So that is awesome. So today we packed...
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17 Nov

Day 99 – Esperance

First thing was get up and get to the tyre place and cross our fingers that the puncture was repairable and we didn’t have to buy a new tyre to replace the brand new one we had just bought! And...
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16 Nov

Day 98 – Inside Australia at Lake Ballard

From Lake Douglas we headed off back through Kalgoorlie and started on the road out to Menzies to fuel up at their self serve 24 hour fuel stop at the abandoned road house with all the number plates stapled up...
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15 Nov

Day 97 – Kalgoorlie

Oh man so many flies. We had to retreat from the rest stop because there were zillions of them. Thankfully Merredin was just up the road so we pulled in there and made some banana pancakes in the carpark whilst...
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14 Nov

Day 96 – Yanchep National Park and on to Kalgoorlie

We left the rest stop relatively early and headed straight for Yanchep National Park, which was just down the road, and it was lovely to arrive before the crowds did as it’s relatively close to Perth and quite accessible for...
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