Woooo Hoooo! We’re in WA! We knew it would happen eventually but it’s taken a while. You get some interesting vehicles on the road outback. These Russian URAL bikes were…

After our salubrious stay in Darwin we’re now back in the rough & tough at Batchelor, Rum Jungle. Rum Jungle has had a checkered uranium mining past & still appears to…

Featured Image: Sunset at Mindil Beach. While in Darwin, a friend from way back in Digital Equipment Corp (DEC)/Compaq/HP days, Simon (another Simon, we’ll call him SimonW) & his lovely…

We found a bloke with a little blue egg beater near Katherine, NT. He said he could take us to see some indigenous rock art out beyond the 13 gorges…

On the way into Jabiru we stopped at Gunlom Falls for what the sign said was a “2km round trip hike” with an option for a swim in a Rockpool…

After Jabiru our next stop was Mary River Wilderness Retreat. In the afternoon we took a boat up the river to see a few crocs from a safe distance. Within…

We’ve been very surprised by the outback road quality. Granted we haven’t wandered very far off the main drags but overall road quality has been pretty good from the Queensland…

Where’s Jayne gunna keep her new pet? It just followed her home. Fossils hundreds of millions of years old galore. Australia is very old in parts. It’s a shame the…

We’re in dinosaur country! The region between Richmond Hughenden & Winton is known as the dinosaur trail in these parts. Over the last couple of days we have viewed just…

After an overnight stop at Ayr we made a relatively early start (8:30am) and headed inland West, towards Mount Isa,  with our first stop at Charters Towers. Charters Towers was…

It’s been a while, about 15 years, since our last visit to Airlie Beach. A lot has changed. Some good, some not so. There are new suburbs, another harbour, another…

It’s very warm up here at the moment, according to the locals.  The downturn in the coal industry is very evident around here. The caravan park is down on numbers.…

The featured image above (if you are reading this on our webpage) is the result of a lot of very busy tiny crabs in/on Yeppoon Beach. Each little ball of…

Now that we are a bit further up the coast we have managed to find another catamaran to sail on.  Grace II sails to the Keppel Islands from Rosslyn Bay…

With the recent string of “incidents” a number of friends suggested we buy lottery tickets.  Here’s Jayne trying to explain that she wants 20 $2 lottery tickets & not 22…

Evidently bad things happen in lots of three.  I don’t subscribe to this but the evidence appears to be mounting. Drove from Agnes Water to Yeppoon today.  We stopped for…

We’d been planning to do a day trip out to Lady Musgrave Island for a bit of snorkelling. Got the brochures and this one looked great. Jayne’s not real good…

Yesterday we travelled from Dicky Beach to Burnett Heads. Burnett Heads is on the coast West from Bundaberg on the Southern bank at the mouth of the Burnett River. We…

Today, we had a pretty lazy sunny morning. A walk along the beach. Coffee & toast. A swim at Dicky Beach. After lunch we dropped the car off at Sunshine…

Seems appropriate with the number of dicky bits between us (knees, backs, shoulder, neck…) that we stay at Dicky Beach for a time. Dicky Beach is allegedly the only recreational…

Once a month, from wherever we are at the time, we make our way back to Newcastle for a couple of days so Jayne can attend to her corporate duties.…

We’ve been here once or twice before in previous travels but I’ve never really experienced the lineup in a decent surf with a bit of swell running. Well, today changed…

It was really really hard to leave Yamba (and Angourie) after a couple of very chilled weeks of R&R. But it was definitely time to leave as Jayne was starting…

Flashback to March 2015.  After travelling over 15,000 km on our VanExtraOrdinaire tour we’re not back in Newy for more than a day, when this happens…  We spotted this motorbike ducking…

The feature shot above says it all about this stay. Lots of swims & morning beach walks. We even managed to keep out of town, mostly.     I think snooze…

It’s been a while, but we’re back… Back in more ways than we thought possible. Since about May 2015 we have been trying to get Jayne’s “back” up to travel…

We were lucky to get this spot as it’s seems to be pretty busy…    We are in the middle of a quick dash up the coast to Crescent Head…

Yes we’re back on the road after a multitude of diversions & distractions. There’s lots of blog gaps still to be filled in, but we’ll get to all that later.…

Any day that starts with a 2 hour surf has got to be a good day.   Waves were small but fun. Samantha & Glenn were both in the water…

As per usual, the promise of good things to come in the wave department is well out of proportion to our actual requirements. Lighthouse beach has some huge waves rolling…