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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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16 Oct

Day 67 – Windjana Gorge and Tunnel Creek

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...
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12 Oct

Day 60-something – Midpoint Reflections

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...
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28 Sep

Day 46-49 – Jatbula Trail, Nitmiluk National Park

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...
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9 Sep

Day 36 – Tent repair

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...
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26 Aug

Day 22 – South Australia to the Northern Territory

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...
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19 Aug

Day 15 – Barossa Valley

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...
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18 Aug

Day 14 – Adelaide

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...
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17 Aug

Day 13 – Granite Island and McLaren Vale

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...
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15 Aug

Day 11 – The Coorong

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....
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