Friday 15th of July 2011 Kalgoorlie to Lucky Bay via Esperance

Friday 15th of July 2011 Kalgoorlie to Lucky Bay via Esperance 450km

Happy 21st Birthday to Tara, we hope you are having a happy, memorable birthday and enjoy all of your celebrations, love
you, thinking of you 🙂 Continue reading

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14th July 2011 Kalgoorlie – Bastille Day

Viva la Revolution my comrades.

Today was a let’s have a quiet one, sort of day.

We headed off for the final 2 holes of the Nullarbor Links at about 9:30 and arrived at the very recently renovated Kalgoorlie Golf Course at 9:50. Continue reading

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Wed 13th July 2011 Norseman to Kalgoorlie, 189km then Menzies and Lake Ballard 180km

Wednesday 13th July 2011

Norseman to Kalgoorlie, 189km  then Menzies and Lake Ballard 180km

We both woke at an obscene hour this morning (somewhere
around 3am), but managed to stay under the covers until about 5:30. Continue reading

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Balladonia to Norseman, via Fraser Range

12th July 2011 Balladonia to Norseman  240km

We had a great night last night free camping off the Eyre Highway.  It’s always a good night with a glass or so of port in front of a campfire. Continue reading

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Ceduna, Border Village and the Nullabor to Balladonia

Sunday 10th July 2011

Ceduna to 10km east of Border Village  472km

We were packed up and ready to leave by 7.30am, had a long
day ahead of us.   Greg played 3 holes of golf today, the first at Penong, one at Nundroo and the last one at Nullarbor.    Continue reading

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Port Augusta to Ceduna July 9 2011

Saturday 9th of July 2011

We started our day early, I think we were both awake around 5:30am, Deb turned on the A/C to heat up the van before we inched our way out of bed around 6am, it was around 5 C. Continue reading

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Our WA NT Adventures begin Fri 8 July 2011

Friday 8th of July 2011

This holiday has been 3 years in the making, it is wonderful to have begun our adventure.

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McLaren Vale June 2011

McLaren Vale June 2011

– We had Ethan overnight on Friday, as Carly had a minor Operation “to clear her head”. At about 9:30 we set out over to Des’s to pick up the van. While we were there, some people we sold some furniture to arrived and packed up a whole lot of stuff to take away, it was so good to see it go and the house empty out. Continue reading

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Sydney, late May 2011

Friday 20 May

After an enjoyable morning spent watching Ella at her very first school sports day,  we eventually arrived at the airport around 1:45 and had a nice relaxing time in the Qantas Club before our 2:50pm flight. Continue reading

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Finally, we get our New Caravan, aka Christening our New Caravan

Friday 3 June 2011

We arrived late to pick our Caravan,  around 3:50pm.

The van was as ready as it was going to be, still a few issues that couldn’t be resolved before we picked it up, but we have been assured they will be fixed when we get back from our Big Holiday.

We had a really helpful handover guy look after us, Andy, and we eventually got away around 5:45pm (just after dark).

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