Saturday 5 March 2011 Port Broughton, a long weekend in early March.

Posted on 07/03/2011 by Greg

Left home around 9am and dropped Aiko off at Carly’s for a long weekend playing with Hanako, Ethan and Ella.

We had a very easy drive up to Yorke Peninsula, it’s only about 180km and 2 hours from home.

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WA 2011 and beyond

Posted on 28/01/2011 by Greg

After much more searching than both of us are used to, we are getting a Jayco Stirling 23.72-5 van and a Land Rover Discovery 4 3.0 TDV6 HSE. Car should be ready by end of May!! Hope we can put off picking up the van until then.

We will have to plan a couple of short trips away to test the rig before our big trip. Looking forward to many happy times in our home away from ….

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Western Australia 2011 – Our Route

Posted on 12/01/2011 by Greg

It’s all coming together slowly but surely. Our route seems to be fairly well agreed.

From Adelaide we head out to Port Augusta, then to: Ceduna, Eucla Norseman, Kalgoorlie (including the Nullabor Golf Course, the World’s Longest Golf Course, 18-hole par 71 golf course which spans 1,365 kilometres in 15 towns.), Esperance, Albany, New Norcia, Geraldton, Monkey Mia ( and maybe Steep Point, the most Westerly Point of mainland Australia), Quobba Station, Ningaloo Reef (hopefully swimming with the Whale Sharks), Exmouth, Port Hedland, Eighty Mile Beach, Fitzroy Crossing, Halls Creek, Wyndham / Kununurra, Timber Creek / Gregory National Park, Katherine, Kakadu NP / Jabiru, Darwin, Daly Waters, Alice Springs, Coober Pedy and Home. We are by-passing Broome as we have been there before and expect it to be pretty busy.

That makes a road trip of about 10500km (6500 miles) in about 8 weeks.  Next thing is to get ourselves a caravan that’s up to the trip.

For anyone interested the link here is for a bit more detail on the Nullabor Golf Course which I am looking forward to playing.

http://www.kalgoorlie.com/nullarborlinks/downloads/playing-the-course.pdf

http://www.kalgoorlie.com/nullarborlinks/course.asp

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Western Australia 2011 – Planning

Posted on 30/12/2010 by Greg

I have been working on this holiday for a while now but yesterday we started to piece everything together and started making plans.

Winter on the south coast of Australia, (Ceduna to Albany) looks like it could be a bit bleak, so we have decided to take days from there and add them to the top end. Continue reading →

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Normanville – A long weekend in November 2010

Posted on 21/11/2010 by Greg

Normanville 18th to 20th November 2010

18th Nov.

We got away from home around 1pm and after a very smooth drive arrived in Normanville at 2:25pm. By 3:30 we had checked in and were all set up, and beer o’clock was called. Continue reading →

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Normanville 18th November 2010

Posted on 18/11/2010 by Deborah

We are off to Normanville today with Ella & Ethan and Aiko. Von & Tom are coming down tonight, then Carly, Kieran and Hana and Ben, Sarah, Dante and Tessa arrive tomorrow. I am looking forward to having some long walks on the beach and watching the little ones have fun camping.

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Halls Gap, The Grampians 10 & 11 Nov 2010

Posted on 11/11/2010 by Deborah

Wednesday 10 November 2010

Today we headed out at about 9am to go to Sovereign Hill in Ballarat. After a 1 ½ hr drive we arrived in Ballarat and made our way towards the Eureka Centre and Sovereign Hill. However, first stop was a bakery for morning tea, :-), then onto the Eureka Centre. Continue reading →

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Grampians 8 & 9 November 2010

Posted on 09/11/2010 by Deborah

Monday 8th Nov 2010

We left home at 7am and had a very easy drive through to Halls Gap. Along the way we stopped at the SA / Vic border and took a photo of Dante and Tessa posing under the sign. Continue reading →

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Monday 8th of November Grampians here we come :)

Posted on 08/11/2010 by Greg

It is 5am, little bit excited 🙂 in another 2 hours we will be on the road heading towards the Grampians.   We hope to be there by 12.30pm, will set up camp, collect firewood, maybe do a Geocache and this evening we are going to do a walk near the visitors centre and hopefully see some wildlife.   Sounds like Dante is awake, yes 🙂 he is looking forward to going to Ballarat on Wednesday and some hiking.   The car is all packed now we just need Greg and Tessa to wake up and we will be off on another adventure!

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The Grampians and beyond

Posted on 23/10/2010 by Greg

We are off to the Grampians with Dante and Tessa in two weeks, staying at Halls Gap Caravan Park. Its going to be lots of fun introducing them to the park that their Dad was taken to by his Nan and Pop back when he was their age. We hope to make a trip into Ballarat and Sovereign Hill while we are over there.

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