The outback adventures of Smash and Trundle
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 … Read More »
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 … Read More »
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 … Read More »
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 … Read More »
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 … Read More »
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 … Read More »
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 … Read More »
Another windy morning when we woke up at the lovely Waminda Wildlife Sanctuary! However it was a good alarm clock to get us up in time to feed the animals with Jennifer again first thing in the morning. Smash got … Read More »
Another slow start morning, and we lazily made our way back to Kalbarri to do a quick tour around the inland river gorges before it got too hot. We took the gravelly and heavily graded road with a stream of other … Read More »
We’d unintentionally managed to choose a wonderfully shady spot last night when selecting our campsite so we had a nice sleep in without the sun blaring down on us too early on. We took the road back to Kalbarri to … Read More »