The current 2023 trip, has been a long time in the planning. Myself and 3 mates are heading for Antarctica and South America.
Posts in reverse order below.
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PREFACE. Emails started flying from Cousin Hayley and Uncle Keith in late September. Aunty Sue was oblivious as she was traipsing around the ‘Stans’ at the time. Hayley and Keith were plotting an experience for Suzie (Aunty,) Hayley (Cousin,) Bronwyn (Sister) and I to mark Suzie’s 75th year. (January was proposed and locked in as
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Left Dad’s about 8:30 ish and arrived home at 1:30.The Speedo shows 6172km travelled. All up a wonderful trip. A slow dawdle to start to allow the wet weather to dry out the roads further north and an opportunity to catch my breath from the last minute packing and preparation then a fun drive to
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The builders turned up at Dad’s at 7:30 to start replacing the pagola that blew over on Christmas Eve. We got to finish replacing the rubbers on Kate’s shock absorbers so she could get on her way to Canberra via Murrumbateman where she has booked accommodation tonight, before collecting her van to continue her trip
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A nice brisk start to the day with some frost about. Phil and Mary were up and about this morning as there was work to be done to tend to Kate’s car. Phil was keen to replace the rubbers in the new shock absorbers and try and repair the damage to the spare tyre carrier
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Well a late night doing a blog post from the swag and paid the price for two cups of tea (2 trips to the loo during the night) with the scrumptious camp oven scones that Kate and Mary whipped up last night. Kate’s new awning set up was warm and dry last night and waking
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Overnight was freezing- coldest morning we’ve had. Steve and Stef headed off before 8 this morning. We had a message from Brian that they’d made it home to Mirboo North about 11pm after leaving us at Parachilna. The remaining 4 are dawdling about in Mildura today and we will head South again sometime. Phil had
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So ready to roll and out the school gate about 8:30. The sun shining on Flinders Ranges this morning really highlights their craggy rugged rocky composition. Almost collected an emu this morning – definitely got the heart started for the day, I reckon it was about 50 cm from my bull bar. The colours again
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We were up and about early today, before six for me as we wanted to get some things seen and done. I need to be up early to attend my flat tyre which I was hopeful was a prank by the crew but I didn’t know. Anyway, I got up needed to unwind the spare
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Woken up by Mary at 6:20 as my phone was charging in the car. As always we were treated to a stunning sunrise over the Diamantina River and wetlands behind our campsite. We had our 1:20min scenic flight at 7:30 in a Grand Caravan, 7 of us plus 2 couples made up the flight. Talia
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Beautiful sleep last night. Didn’t wake till 6:30 and no moisture in the air last night which assisted a surprisingly dry pack up this morning.The sunrise this morning was captured in a cloudy sky and as always ever changing colours were just captivating. Pancakes for breakfast this morning as we have a shorter day ahead
Travel adventures with Nicola & co. 