Happy Birthday
. Travel Day Our next driving day was “Happy birthday Mabi” day, and the Tall Mumma had researched and found a Bakery in one of the small towns we were passing through, so that Mabi could have her traditional birthday-sausage-roll.…
Glen Innes
. Tenterfield We crossed over from Queensland into New South Wales on our next travel day, and dropped in to Tenterfield to top up one of our gas-tanks which had run out the day before. We use gas for the…
Western Downs Pt2
. Stunning We arrived at the Chinchilla Weir after only a short drive, with a stop-off at the grocery store on the way – and let ourselves in through the locked gate of the Ski Club, as we’d been directed…
Western Downs
. Our next Travel Day was through to Chinchilla, and we were pretty excited to be going to see one of our Sons, as we hadn’t managed to catch up for about 2 years! Break-time Along the way, we stopped…
Roma
. Antsy! Our next park-up was to be in Roma, so we stopped off on the way in Augathella to stretch, take the dogs for a walk, and have a look at some Tank Art, and go to the Meat-Ant…
Tambo
. Tambo The road to Tambo was good for the most part, and Mabi even lay down for a bit while we were driving for the first time since we left the Farm again, numerous weeks ago. We chose to…
Blackall pit-stop
Woolscour Blackall was the ½ way stopover point for our usual walk, wee and morning-tea, so we stopped in at the Blackall Woolscour, which is the last remaining steam operated wool washing plant in Australia, and is a living museum.…
Aramac & back
. After leaving Lake Dunn, we headed back through Aramac to visit the Tramway Museum, and to look for the mini bull statues that we had read about being scattered outside various businesses – which commemorates one of the most…
Lake Dunn
. Chores Before leaving Barcaldine to head to Lake Dunn, we had a few chores to get sorted, so headed off back in to town to get fuel and gas, and to visit the (only!) local windscreen guy, to get…
Barcaldine
. The drive from Longreach felt like a realllly long one, and we were glad to land in the pretty little town that is Barcaldine. Wandering We were all very ready to stretch our legs and shake off the road…
Longreach
Muddies One of the things we love about being in the Outback is that often there is nothing at all except miles and miles of sweeping dry grasslands rolling out to the horizon in every direction. The vastness is thoroughly…
Off-Grid Evenings
Hughenden On our way through outback Queensland we stopped in again and parked up at Allen Terry in Hughenden – where we’ve stayed before – for an off-grid overnight stop, to decide where the next turn will take us. Thankfully,…
Pentland & Prairie
. We said we’d go back to Pentland, but we didn’t realise it would quite so soon! We’ve been unsure all along which direction we were going to be taking on this leg of our trip as we meander our…
Charters Again
Charters Towers We missed out on stopping in to our youngest Daughters place in Townsville this time around, as she was rostered on all week at work, and her in-laws and their dog were in residence to help out with…
Kurrimine & Rollingstone
After a whirlwind visit to the Farm and our attendance at the Family wedding, we were quickly back on the road again, itching to head first back to the beach to get back into the swing of ‘road-life’, then back…
Wongaling
Lovely – but… We’d been hearing rumours for many many months about a Park at Wongaling Beach called Bali Hai Holiday Park that was an over 18 (aka child-free) Park, and whilst it was stupidly expensive (in our opinion)…
