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Australia  The East Bit   Day 21 and 22   Mission Beach, Mission Beach to Rollingstone  Qld  26 and 27 July 2016

Posted on 27/07/2016 by Greg

Day 21    Mission Beach,  Qld     26 July 2016 Happy birthday Patrick, we hope you have had an amazing day. 🙂 Today we spent the morning having a look around the Mission Beach area. First we drove north up to Mission … Continue reading →

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Australia  The East Bit   Day 19 and 20   Innisfail to Mission Beach Qld  24 and 25 July 2016

Posted on 25/07/2016 by Greg

Day 19   Innisfail to Mission Beach Qld     24 July 2016 As usual our leaving day started early and we got on the road at about 8am for our short drive to Mission Beach, it is a mere 51km. The caravan … Continue reading →

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Australia The East Bit Days 16 and 17 Mount Surprise to Innisfail and Innisfail Qld 21 and 22 July 2016

Posted on 22/07/2016 by Greg

Day 16 21 July 2016  Mount Surprise to Innisfail Qld  252km We set out around 8am, the day looked promising, with only a little rain forecast. We drove through Mount Garnet and then onto the top of the Atherton Tablelands … Continue reading →

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Australia  The East Bit   Days 11 12 13 and 14 Four Ways to Karumba,  Karumba and then Karumba to Mount Surprise 16 17 18 and 19 July 2016 

Posted on 19/07/2016 by Greg

Hi all, I have a bit of catching up to do. Who would have thought I wouldn’t get time to do our blog. After all, it’s not as though we are holidaying or anything. 🙂 Number of Views :2005

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Australia  The East Bit   Days 9 and 10 Mount Isa then Mount Isa  to Bourke and Wills Roadhouse Four Ways via Cloncurry 14 & 15 July 2016 

Posted on 16/07/2016 by Greg

Day 9 Mount Isa. 14 July 2016 The good news is, the NSW Blues won the third NRL State of Origin game last night, preventing a Queensland 3-0 Series win. The good folk of Mount Isa didn’t seem too happy … Continue reading →

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Australia  The East Bit   Days 7 and 8 Barrow Creek to Barkly Homestead and Mount Isa 12 & 13 July 2016 

Posted on 13/07/2016 by Greg

As a general observation traveling through this part of northern Australia is that the locals are truly crazy! All the way from Erldunda to Mount Isa there are termite mounds, dotted at an increasing frequency along the road side. At … Continue reading →

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Day 6 Yulara to Barrow Creek 11 July 2016 Including the Field of Light

Posted on 11/07/2016 by Greg

Australia  The East Bit Palya!   (Hello) Before I get onto today, let’s step back a day. As promised here is our “Field of Light – Uluru” Experience Number of Views :2280

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Australia – The East Bit – Day 5 Yalara / Uluru / Kata Tjuta 10 July 2016 

Posted on 10/07/2016 by Greg

  We had an easy day. Breakfast in the resort breakfast area was so busy, but the staff  were very efficient and the food was fresh and very good. It rained about 13mm overnight and the grounds were wet with … Continue reading →

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Australia – The East Bit Day 4 Erldunda to Yalara/Uluru 9 July 2016  242km

Posted on 09/07/2016 by Greg

  We eased our way into today. I filled the car up with fuel and we packed the van up as much as possible before locking it all up and leaving it in Erldunda while we headed off to Uluru … Continue reading →

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Australia – The East Bit – Days 1 2 & 3 Adelaide to Erldunda

Posted on 08/07/2016 by Greg

Day 1 Adelaide to Port Augusta  6 July 2016   312km The day has finally arrived. We have been talking about doing this holiday since we did the Western Loop about 5 years ago. (Read back in our blog if you … Continue reading →

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