Today was a great rest day for both of us. A late start saw us heading for the Pinnacles in the Nambung National Park. What an amazing spectacle they are. http://www.breakloose.com.au/html/adventure_articles/regional/wa/coral_coast/pinnacles.php The morning started with the need to do a toilet dump run (nice subject we know but a fact of life for those that [...]
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We woke in our free camp at New Norcia to a magnificent morning,sunny no wind just beautiful. After breaky we did a walk around the beautiful remains of the Benedictine Monastery that was established in 1847 by Don Rosendo Salvado. Mavis went for a walk around the River walk while I got the van and [...]
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Greetings friends. We learn as we go and we have just found out that when you edit or add to a posted blog there are no notifications go out to tell all of those that wish to see it. As a consequence this part of this post is to let you all know that we [...]
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We got off to a late start on Wednesday 13th as we were waiting for a gentle person to come and have a look at the “For sale Kedron” at lunch time. Needless to say he did not turn up so we departed at about 2:30 for Perth wellll on the way to Perth at [...]
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What can you say about a son that peddles a pushbike about 35 minutes to and from work daily (pretty green thinking grin). What can you say about that son that drops his bag off unknowingly from the rack on the back of the pushbike and only discovers the loss when he gets home. So [...]
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Greetings all. We are only days away from delivery of our new caravan and busting with excitement. We chose to have a Spinifex van as they are the only mob that will do a full custom van without argument. (Our two and a half pages of requirements were incorporated happily) We have also been watching [...]
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We are losing track of time here. Mavis and I have come to a joint decision that we will return to Tassie in November of 2012 and stay for six months. This two months has just gone too fast and Tassie does need to be experienced at a much slower relaxed pace. Monday the 28th [...]
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Saturday 19th February continued. We had not done any cloths washing for a while so we decided to lay up in a van park for a couple of days to complete the necessary before continuing the adventure. Rod had booked a site in the Apex Caravan park at Ulverston from Melbourne before the trip over [...]
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Sunday 13th February. Today we headed for Eildon, have to say wow this place is now on the list of absolutely must go back to. Great kayaking and fishing. It reminded us of Khancoban in NSW but on a much but not too much larger scale but still friendly. Marysville was next on the agenda, [...]
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Monday 7th February. Took off heading South on the coast road into uncharted territory (for us at least) and stopped in for a look at Mallacoota over the Victorian border. What a great little resort town. One of the caravan parks is right on the water and you camp close to same. There are also [...]
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