Jun – Sep 2017

Australia

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June 17, 2017
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- Day 1
- Saturday, June 17, 2017 at 8:00 PM
- 🌙 9 °C
- Altitude: 16 m
- Australia Anglesea River -38.40963, 144.1807438°24’35” S 144°10’51” E
Anglesea
June 17, 2017 in Australia ⋅ 🌙 9 °C
Our first stop on our caravanning adventure, the Big4 park at Anglesea. I loved the swimming pool and jumping pillow. The play ground had great facilities including sand pit toys and the park has fantastic clean bathroom facilities and there is awesome wildlife.
I highly recommend this park for families.Read more
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- Day 2
- Sunday, June 18, 2017 at 4:00 PM
- ☀️ 14 °C
- Altitude: 33 m
- Australia Point Hesse -38.622642, 142.93801338°37’22” S 142°56’17” E
London Bridge
June 18, 2017 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 14 °C
It's really fantastic to see and it's nice to imagine how it used to be like and how its changed over thousands of years.
The cliffs look like they were dripping with red paint from the erosions of the water.
It really is a great sight.Read more
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- Day 2
- Sunday, June 18, 2017 at 5:00 PM
- ☀️ 14 °C
- Altitude: 14 m
- Australia Peterborough -38.60699, 142.8771238°36’25” S 142°52’38” E
Bay of Islands
June 18, 2017 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 14 °C
They will probably be a lot different when we visit next time. It was kind of cool seeing a huge cave and a funny looking tree stump on a tiny little island.
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- Day 3
- Monday, June 19, 2017 at 7:00 PM
- 🌙 12 °C
- Altitude: 14 m
- Australia Allansford -38.39921, 142.5682438°23’57” S 142°34’6” E
Warrnambool
June 19, 2017 in Australia ⋅ 🌙 12 °C
Big4 park has lots of animals to play with.... especially chickens!
It has a tennis, basketball, and mini golf court.
The play ground is fantastic fun.
Me and my family love this park.
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- Day 4
- Tuesday, June 20, 2017 at 11:30 PM
- ☁️ 11 °C
- Altitude: 10 m
- Australia Flagstaff Hill -38.38956, 142.4847238°23’22” S 142°29’5” E
Flagstaff Hill Maritine Museum
June 20, 2017 in Australia ⋅ ☁️ 11 °C
I along with my family all agree that this museum was amazing.
We learnt all about the LochArd and history in the 1840s.
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- Day 5
- Wednesday, June 21, 2017 at 6:00 PM
- ☁️ 10 °C
- Altitude: 25 m
- Australia Mount Gambier -37.8389, 140.8084537°50’20” S 140°48’30” E
Mount Gambier, Umpherston Sinkhole
June 21, 2017 in Australia ⋅ ☁️ 10 °C
Amazing volcanic sinkhole from the limestone caves that have collapsed and then been converted into a magnificent garden.
Beautiful by day, possom playground at night.
I love the possoms, they are so cute and friendly that you can hand feed them fruit.Read more
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- Day 6
- Thursday, June 22, 2017 at 9:00 AM
- ☁️ 9 °C
- Altitude: 108 m
- Australia Waawor -37.85018, 140.7817337°51’1” S 140°46’54” E
Mount Gambier, Centenary Tower
June 22, 2017 in Australia ⋅ ☁️ 9 °C
Wow, such a hike to get there, but it is worth it.
You can see everything from up on the mountain. You can see the whole of Blue Lake and the rim of the old volcano.
The tower is only open when the flag is flying but I bet that if you get to go up to the top there would be an even better view.Read more
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- Day 6
- Thursday, June 22, 2017 at 12:05 PM
- ☁️ 14 °C
- Altitude: 26 m
- Australia Mount Gambier -37.83621, 140.8077237°50’10” S 140°48’28” E
Engelbrecht Cave, Mount Gambier
June 22, 2017 in Australia ⋅ ☁️ 14 °C
Interesting tour of an amazing underground cave in the centre of a town.
With 6 years of diving training you're allowed to go diving in the smaller part of the cave,
with 8 years of diving training you can go diving in the deep end.Read more
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- Day 6
- Thursday, June 22, 2017 at 2:30 PM
- ☁️ 15 °C
- Altitude: 24 m
- Australia Frew Park Oval -37.82564, 140.7873837°49’32” S 140°47’15” E
Mount Gambier
June 22, 2017 in Australia ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C
The Lady Nelson Information Centre was so cool!
It has a nice little gift shop,
Lots of crystals and rocks,
And lots and lots of really cool facts about volcanos.
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- Day 7
- Friday, June 23, 2017 at 4:30 PM
- ☀️ 12 °C
- Altitude: 73 m
- Australia Joanna -37.09006, 140.8295437°5’24” S 140°49’46” E
Naracoote Caves National Park
June 23, 2017 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 12 °C
Wow, this place is amazing. Giant kangaroo/wombat looking things, Tasmanian tigers, big snakes and birds...
Very big caves with lots of limestone stalagmites and stalactites.
I really enjoyed it here, if you're in the area, I definitely recommend this place.Read more
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- Day 8
- Saturday, June 24, 2017 at 12:06 PM
- ⛅ 13 °C
- Altitude: 321 m
- Australia Pioneer Park -35.02791, 138.8097635°1’40” S 138°48’35” E
Hahndorf
June 24, 2017 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C
Hahndorf is a small German-based village set in the Adelaide Hills. We stayed at the Big4 park. It had a jumping pillow, a big pond with lots of ducks, geese and pelicans from time to time. It also had a mini golf course and a small playground. My sister loved trying to catch the ducks and geese. Me and my family love this park and all agree that you should visit one day.Read more
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- Day 10
- Monday, June 26, 2017 at 12:10 PM
- ⛅ 13 °C
- Altitude: 19 m
- Australia Par 3 Golf Course -34.91776, 138.584934°55’4” S 138°35’6” E
Adelaide Gaol
June 26, 2017 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C
This place really shows what jail was like in the 1840s.
You can see how badly prisoners were treated back then and you start to realise that prisoners are very spoilt nowadays.
Wow, I'm thankful that I wasn't a prisoner back then.Read more
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- Day 10
- Monday, June 26, 2017 at 3:32 PM
- ⛅ 14 °C
- Altitude: 38 m
- Australia Rundle Mall -34.92084, 138.6031434°55’15” S 138°36’11” E
Adelaide, South Australian Museum
June 26, 2017 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C
I learnt and saw so much from this place:
animals,
meteorites,
skeletons,
dinosaurs
and lots more
This place is wonderful!
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- Day 10
- Monday, June 26, 2017 at 9:30 PM
- 🌙 10 °C
- Altitude: 29 m
- Australia Warnpangga -34.91288, 138.6069134°54’46” S 138°36’25” E
Adelaide Zoo
June 26, 2017 in Australia ⋅ 🌙 10 °C
I love animals and I love to see animals that I have never seen before,
Pandas,
Hippos,
Lions,
Tigers,
Meerkats
and lots of others.
You can get really close to the animals but you can't touch them.
It's not the biggest of zoos but it has so much rare and cool animals that I've never seen before.Read more
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- Day 11
- Tuesday, June 27, 2017 at 4:12 PM
- ☀️ 15 °C
- Altitude: 12 m
- Australia Port Pirie -33.17172, 138.0109533°10’18” S 138°0’39” E
Port Pirie
June 27, 2017 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 15 °C
We stayed at a nice park near the beach. There was not much for kids to do but it has the beach, a playground and a skate park nearby. We loved riding our bikes here and watching the dolphins in the bay.
There are lots of fish at the beach to catch... and a big crab that got away!Read more
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- Day 11
- Tuesday, June 27, 2017 at 9:00 PM
- ⛅ 12 °C
- Altitude: 101 m
- Australia Lochiel -33.91923, 138.1688333°55’9” S 138°10’8” E
Lochiel Pink Salt Lake
June 27, 2017 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 12 °C
I've never seen a salt lake before, so it was amazing to see one.
If you take a look from the top, the whole lake looks pink.
I tried a little bit of the salt and, as you could guess, it was very salty.Read more
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- Day 12
- Wednesday, June 28, 2017 at 1:25 PM
- ⛅ 15 °C
- Altitude: 11 m
- Australia Cowandurham Soak -33.18876, 138.0035433°11’20” S 138°0’13” E
Port Pirie, RSL
June 28, 2017 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
Small but interesting .
It has guns that were carried in war, big cannons and a huge helicopter.
My brother, sister and I all liked the helicopter best.
As well as being a war museum it is also a bar.
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- Day 13
- Thursday, June 29, 2017 at 1:15 PM
- ⛅ 19 °C
- Altitude: 520 m
- Australia Ucolta -32.95868, 138.9832°57’31” S 138°58’48” E
Peterborough, Steamtown Rail Centre
June 29, 2017 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 19 °C
The Steamtown Heritage Rail Centre is a little information centre with a railway museum.
We didn't do the whole tour but it was still very informative to learn about railway travel in the 1960s.
I definitely recommend this for all train enthusiasts.Read more
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- Day 14
- Friday, June 30, 2017 at 1:40 PM
- ⛅ 30 °C
- Altitude: 325 m
- Australia Single Gum Hill -31.33477, 138.5895931°20’5” S 138°35’23” E
Flinders Rangers, Wilpena Pound
June 30, 2017 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 30 °C
Wow, what a walk! Amazing nature views and tracks all around the southern Flinders Ranges.
Kangaroos and Emus everywhere and to finish off, it has a little gift shop.
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- Day 15
- Saturday, July 1, 2017 at 1:53 PM
- ☀️ 17 °C
- Altitude: 9 m
- Australia Port Augusta -32.49127, 137.7878232°29’29” S 137°47’16” E
Wadlata Outback Centre, Pt Augusta
July 1, 2017 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 17 °C
This place tells you all about how people lived in the olden days and how the Aboriginal people lived.
We learnt about their food, homes, how they communicated and how they protected themselves.
This place is very interesting and fun.
I hope you're not scared of snakes.Read more
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- Day 16
- Sunday, July 2, 2017 at 12:05 PM
- 🌬 15 °C
- Altitude: 290 m
- Australia Quorn -32.3451, 138.0413932°20’42” S 138°2’29” E
Pichi Richi Railway
July 2, 2017 in Australia ⋅ 🌬 15 °C
We went on a 2 hour ride in a really cool steam train. "Lots of tooting and lots of steaming" says my sister.
This ride really shows how people got around before the electric new ones.
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- Day 17
- Monday, July 3, 2017 at 11:15 AM
- 🌬 13 °C
- Altitude: 124 m
- Australia RAAF Woomera Airfield -31.15991, 136.8250131°9’36” S 136°49’30” E
Woomera Rocket Park
July 3, 2017 in Australia ⋅ 🌬 13 °C
Huge rockets, missiles and war ships. My little brother absolutely loves this place.
It also has a smaller museum with more things that have been used in space before.
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- Day 18
- Tuesday, July 4, 2017 at 1:18 PM
- ☀️ 16 °C
- Altitude: 222 m
- Australia Coober Pedy -29.00969, 134.7564929°0’35” S 134°45’23” E
Coober Pedy
July 4, 2017 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 16 °C
We enjoyed the Big 4 parks' playground, tours, and its pizzeria.
Showers were nice but it costs 20c per 2 minutes so stock up on your 20c coins.
It also had the best wifi that we've had so far on this holiday.
We went to the public noodling area. We tried and tried and tried until we found this little piece of opal.
We didn't really know what to look for and there was pile after pile of mullock hills.
We went to a shop called "The Opal Bug". It's really cool having a painted car with long poles as legs, all put together is an opal bug.
There were lots of opal necklaces, rings, and souvenirs.
My sister bought a little opal necklace.Read more
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- Day 20
- Thursday, July 6, 2017 at 2:17 PM
- 🌬 18 °C
- Altitude: 228 m
- Australia Coober Pedy -29.01086, 134.7539329°0’39” S 134°45’14” E
Coober Pedy, Old Timers' Mine
July 6, 2017 in Australia ⋅ 🌬 18 °C
I love this place. We had a little show about a "blower", (a huge mining vacuum cleaner). I got to put some rocks into it and I got to put my arm into it. (My arm is still attached.)
There was a little shop with some souvenirs and opals. The shop lead into the mine.
The mine was really fascinating and fun. We saw lots of opal and there was lots of miners mining, (dummys)
There is also a little museum to go along with it.
At the very end there's an underground house. Best mine I've seen yet.
We also saw the first tree in Coober Pedy, (the only tree - it is welded out of metal)
The views are amazing from here - you can see the whole of Coober Pedy from the top.Read more
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- Day 22
- Saturday, July 8, 2017 at 1:49 PM
- ☀️ 17 °C
- Altitude: 618 m
- Australia Felix Spring -25.30148, 130.7274725°18’5” S 130°43’39” E
The Olgas (Kata Tjuta)
July 8, 2017 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 17 °C
Just like Ayers Rock, an amazing sight, just in a different shape.
We went on a walk right through it and we learnt all about what the aboriginals did with this amazing place.
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