Category: Travel

  • Way out West 2025. 11th of August.  Day twenty- five.

    Shelly Beach CP, Ceduna to Mount Ive Station campground. A slow start, awoke to groovy orange sunrise colours over the park. Richard came to say that he had no luck with Ceduna Toyota so had ordered the alternator from Auto Parts Plus and had a list of people to fit it. It should arrive tomorrow…

  • Way out West 2025. 10th of August.  Day twenty- four.Fowlers Bay CP to Shelly Beach Ceduna.

    Today was up and out to the jetty to check sunrise. A bit late for the early orange colour. Then breaky, pack up and park the car and van to park in the Esplanade ready for our Whale watching cruise with Rod and Mya’s EP Cruises. (Bruce the decky) The cruise was unbelievable. We saw…

  • Way out West 2025. 9th of August.  Day twenty-three.

    Nullabor Roadhouse campground to Fowlers Bay CP Packed up this morning unhitched the van and we backtracked the 72 kilometres to the Bunda cliff view point. Stef and Phil had a chat to Richard and Family (Laverne, Sara and Jackson) and the plan was to check out the cliffs, pick up the vans, follow Richard…

  • Way out West 2025. 8th of August.  Day twenty-two.

    Border Village CP to Nullabor Roadhouse campground. Up about 7 o’clock local time. (Whatever that is) Quite chilly once the sun rose. We got away and found the old Eyre Hwy and needed to stop shortly after and let the tyres down again. (It’s a bit gravelly, rocky and generally a track) Then we set…

  • Way out West 2025. 7th of August.  Day twenty-one.

    Baxter Cliffs dune camp to Border Village CP at the Roadhouse in Border Village. Up to start the day with sunrise over the dunes and a visit by the Pink Cockatoos. Then we headed out again. Back over the same terrain in reverse. Well, after a mighty total of 68.8 km yesterday and this morning,…

  • Way out West 2025. 6th of August.  Day twenty.

    Cocklebiddy CP to Baxter Cliffs dune camp. A fair bit of phaffing and a slow start today. Samantha and Bruce were fed a kangaroo heart by one of the staff – evidently the kangaroo hunters drop off some hearts for the eagles. Stef had a look at his coolant leak – so much gunk and…

  • Way out West 2025. 5th of August.  Day nineteen.

    Rawlinna Campground to Cocklebiddy CP. Left this morning about 8:45 after a busy ‘phaffing day’ yesterday. We turned onto the Trans Access Road and followed beside the rail line for about 45kms on a good wide road with a few wet patches here and there. A lot more Roos around this morning Red and grey…

  • Way out West 2025. 4th of August.  Day eighteen.

    Rawlinna Campground. Well it did rain a little more last night and a fair wind. The van rocked a little bit. A couple of trains hurtled past. We were in bed early as the wind and rain sent us packing from the fire. I published a blog and was too tired to finish another. Up…

  • Way out West 2025. 3rd of August.  Day seventeen.

    Crossroads Camp in amongst some trees to Rawlinna Campground. A record breaking day – all out of the barriers and on the road before 7:30 (7:28) there is rain forecast and these roads may not be fun… or even passable when wet. Being up early and cloudy made for brilliant colours across the sky at…

  • Way out West 2025. 2nd of August.  Day sixteen.

    Neale Breakaways camp to Crossroads Camp in amongst some trees. 154 kms down the track. Awoke for sunrise this am. Steve and I captured some of the morning colours on the breakaways. Had time for a bit of a walk around the wall behind camp this morning. So many colours and textures in the rocks.…