The outback adventures of Smash and Trundle
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. … Read More »
Woke up in the Derby caravan park (we arrived too late yesterday to find anything else..) to a luxurious breakfast of Kununurra mango! Amazing! And watched the resident albino peacock strut around and fuss which was hilarious. We checked out … Read More »
Sorry for breaking the pattern – I’m 10 days behind on the blog writing and photo uploading but I took some time out today to write down a few things that have been swilling around in my mind for a … Read More »
Day 1: We’d woken up super early and pre-arranged a car drop off at the end of the trail with the wonderful Cecilia and the gang from Tindall so we headed out with the troops at 6am to get us … Read More »
We’d recovered somewhat from the canoeing and had a slow morning packing and doing washing and getting organised for the push up north Darwin-bound. Today was a driving day – we said our goodbyes to the family (we’ll see them … Read More »
Today was a travelling day. We left (at a very leisurely pace) Marla in the morning and drove up the highway until we hit the SA-NT border where we stopped to look around. Sure enough the 130km per hour road … Read More »
It was 2 degrees outside last night so we opted to test out the car sleeping arrangements at a nearby campground around Mylor in the Adelaide Hills – worked out wonderfully and we got a warm and good night’s sleep after … Read More »
Clarendon was lovely to camp at and lovely to drive through – such an awesome corner of Australia down here with rolling hills and farms and lovely people everywhere. Lots of fresh food and local produce and wine and beer … Read More »
Up early to go back to Victor Harbor to try get a glimpse of some whales… No luck in the morning so after a coffee and cakes at the Goolwa Markets we took the horse drawn tram over the bridge … Read More »
So nice to wake up to total quiet on the sand dunes and see a perfect blue sky day. It was still pretty cold though, but we were set on attempting a swim, which we did – well, we attempted. … Read More »