Champagne Pools is one of our favourite spots on Fraser Island. They’re just some rock pools on a rocky head between a couple of beaches. The pools are fed by waves crashing […]
Champagne Pools, Fraser Island
Fraser Island, Great Sandy National Park
Fraser Island is quite an exotic sounding destination for westerners like us so we were quite excited to visit it for the first time. We paid our $11 per day vehicle access […]
Cooloola Beach, Great Sandy National Park
From Brisbane we traveled north through Sunshine Coast region to Great Sandy National Park, which includes Cooloola beach and Fraser Island. First was Cooloola beach. We camped a couple of nights, mainly just relaxing […]
Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary, Brisbane
We spent a day at the Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary just out of Brisbane. There’s heaps of koalas to see as well as many other animals. Many of the koalas were still […]
XXXX Beer Factory & GOMA – Gallery of Modern Art
Yesterday we went on a guided tour through the XXXX Beer Factory in Brisbane. This is a historic site over a hundred years old where Castlemaine first established a permanent brewing factory. […]
Brisbane and New Years on Sunshine Coast
We rocked up in Brisbane a couple of days before new years. We spent a day or so fixing the car – buying and installing a new car battery and bonnet latch […]
Muckadilla Hotel, Queensland
Our car battery broke in Longreach. It wasn’t a slow deterioration, but rather a sudden failure. It got super hot, boiled over, and completely flattened itself. I suspect an internal short caused […]
Longreach – Christmas 2012
Longreach was our town of choice for spending Christmas. We chose it because it’s where we happened to be on the Landsborough Hwy on Christmas eve. We stayed at a caravan park. […]
Winton, Queensland
Winton is a town in Central Queensland which we passed through on our way to Longreach where we would later spend Christmas. There’s some interesting history around Winton, including being one of […]
Mount Isa, Cloncurry and Walkabout Creek
After a week or so of bush camping on the Savannah Way, we crossed the border into Queensland on the Barkley Hwy and rolled into Mount Isa for some much needed shopping, […]
Tablelands Hwy, Northern Territory
Leaving Borroloola, we back tracked to Cape Crawford then headed south on Tablelands Hwy – a single lane sealed road that runs for about 500km, joining up with the Barkley Hwy which […]
Borroloola – Barra Time
Borroloola saw the end of our dream to conquer the Savannah Way through the gulf country to Queensland. Continuing was not possible due to heavy rainfall. Nathan River Road was exciting for […]
Towns River to Lost City, Limmen River National Park
After an overnight at Towns River, we continued our journey on Savannah Way south on Nathan River Road. This part of the trip got interesting, with some areas having received heavy rainfall […]
Savannah Way – Nathan River Road
Leaving Roper Bar, the Savannah Way heads into some pretty remote country, through Limmen River National Park and towards the Gulf of Carpentaria on Nathan River Road. This road is all dirt and […]
Savannah Way – Mataranka to Roper Bar
Our Savannah Way expedition kicked off with the first segment heading east from Stuart Highway – taking the Roper Highway from Mataranka to Roper Bar. This section is mostly sealed road and […]
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