Our travel journal

The pages within this section are our personal travel journal that we have made public. We hope that you enjoy traveling with us and that if you are not yet a convert to the lifestyle that you are swayed to give it a try and that if you are already we hope that you find our diary interesting and that it maybe takes you to places you are yet to visit.

Ultimately it is our intention to be on the road most of the time. If you see us on your travels or in a van park, drop in and say gidday. Happy hour is at the usual time.

After many years camping (tents and camper trailer) we acquired our first caravan in 2003. The following is a list (current to earliest) of our trips.

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This the final leg of our Big Lap trip will be for the month of March only. From Port Fairy we detour to Mildura for a final warranty service on the now not so new RV Supertramp. From Mildura we will be on the fast track to the east coast and back into SEQ for a long stop before going north for the Winter ......

One month of Autumn and we will be back in SEQ and the end of this around Australia trip .........

After four weeks in Perth we go further south to "Upland", the south west corner. Turn the corner for Albany and Christmas in Esperance before going on to the Goldfields. We cross the Nularbour Plain and revisit the Eyre Peninsula and South Australia.

We leave Perth for the South West and turn the corner for the east coast .........

With our business issues back home all but resolved and having caused us to be 4 - 6 weeks behind schedule we will get back on track as we head south following the coast be in Perth early November.

The build up is beginning in the north. We head south towards Perth and the South west corner ........

We stop for 6 weeks in Darwin before returning to Katherine via Litchfield and Kakadu National Parks where we take a right turn to Kununarra, Wyndham, The Kimberly and begin our journey down the west coast. We will spend all of Winter and most of Spring in the tropics before going south to Perth and the South West Corner.

We winter up in Darwin, The Top End and The Kimberly before starting down the west coast ........

This leg will take us from the Gold Coast to Dawrin NT. We have a few planned stops along the way at Woodgate prior to Easter, then to Lake Tinaroo on the Atherton Tableland where we were to go on our way home from Karumba in 2005. Leaving Tinaroo we will take the Savannah Way to Normanton stopping at Innot Hot Springs before visiting the Lava Tubes at Undara. From Normanton we revisit Karumba for a couple of weeks fishing before going down to Cloncurry and west to Darwin and the Top End.

We leave the Gold Coast April 1 2007 for a 12 month tour around the continent ..........

With the project all but complete we are ready to spend the next five + years touring and fishing Australia.

We had planned to go south to Victoria however business issues continue to demand that we are not to far from the Goldie and will do so until mid March 2007. SEQ (South East Queensland) and the Northern Rivers region of NSW have been our playground and backyard since we were kids. It is a diverse area of rivers, pristine beaches, rain forests, cities, towns and villages. A lifetime could be spent here and one would still not cover it all.

We begin the trip around the block in South East Qld., the Northern rivers and Central Mid North Coast of NSW ..........

Although this trip will be a short one it is a very important trip for us.

We have finally cut all ties with the notion of a "having a place" a "home" or "fixed address". For the next (number unknown) years we intend to make the RV Supertramp our home. To do that we placed an order for a new larger van back in February and after a long 5 months wait we are finally off to take delivery on the 20th June. Our new van, a Jayco Sterling 21.65-4 with suspension upgrade, was purchased from Halls Caravans in Mildura.

Halls caravans is 2 states away.

This is our trip from the Gold Coast - Mildura - Tweed Heads to pick up the new RV Supertramp ..........

With our recently acquired tinnie we had finally completed the rig and it was time to get back on the road and test it all out. See how we towed with all that extra gear, how easy or not to load and unload. We set a plan to go north to Karumba. The navigator booked us in for 2 months (Aug and Sept) then we would head over to Tinaroo for a couple of weeks and slowly down the Queensland coast getting back home early November.

Find out why this trip was aborted after just 3 week at Karumba ..........

This was a short two week trip just to make sure that the Supertramp didn't feel unwanted and so we didn't forget what it was doing in the backyard. The trip was organised by our good friend Lawrence Pearce and all members of the Camping SEQ Forum were invited. The Australian Camp Oven Festival is held at the Millmeran Show grounds every two years over 3 days. We took several weeks and true to our slogan (and the song by the band) will "Take the Long Way Home"

From our home base we ascend the Toowoomba Range and tour through the Darling Downs to Millmeran arriving on the Thursday before the Camp Oven cook off weekend. The long way home is from Millmeran to Inverell, Texas and Stanthorpe. Then on to Tenterfield and down to the Coast where we were to go into Ballina, Lennox Head and Byron Bay before heading home.

Read on and find out what happened .......

From the Gold Coast to Grafton (NSW) to Armadale down through Dubbo to the Victorian border to Tocumwal. West to South Australia via back roads through Boort to Robe (SA). The Fleurieu Peninsula, Adelaide, the Yorke Peninsula and the Eyre Peninsula. Returning home along the Murray River and the Hume and New England Highways.

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