Change of schedule
8 agosto 2023, Australia ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C
Today saw us make a change in our plans as we have to head to Townsville for caravan toilet parts - our crapper crapped itself 😖🚽
We get to catch up with Maria and Nigel and then spent theLeggi altro
Townsville
9 agosto 2023, Australia ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
This morning saw more research on toilet parts 🙄 before heading off for some shopping - boring stuff - food.
We received some sad news - Alf, Franks dad passed away after a long battle withLeggi altro
Townsville
10 agosto 2023, Australia ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
Can’t complain about our camp site for our time in Townsville - Thanks Maria & Nigel 🤗
Todays adventures include a walk along the water front in Townsville known as The Strand and lunch ofLeggi altro
Rest day
11 agosto 2023, Australia ⋅ ⛅ 24 °C
As we are in Townsville for a little while (well I am as Frank heads home on Monday for his dads funeral 😔) it was a mixed day of odd jobs, cleaning the car and a couple of gardening things to helpLeggi altro
Magnetic Island
12 agosto 2023, Australia ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
A ferry ride leads us to Magnetic Island 8km from Townsville.
After a bus ride to Horseshoe Bay, a relaxing wander around and lunch at the pub we head off on the Forts Trail Head and make our way toLeggi altro
Sunday relaxing
13 agosto 2023, Australia ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
What else are you supposed to do on a Sunday but relax 😔
Productive day
14 agosto 2023, Australia ⋅ 🌙 15 °C
Well I was up at the ungodly hour of 4am to drive Frank to the airport so that he could catch his flight back to Perth for his dad’s funeral. Not a pleasant reason to make the trek back.
As forLeggi altro
The Palmetum
15 agosto 2023, Australia ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C
Today the kids 🐶🐶 and I headed out to the Palmetum - Townsville’s Botanical Garden.
Not only is it a beautiful place but it is home to the Black Hawk Tragedy Memorial when in 1996, 18 SASLeggi altro
Experiment
16 agosto 2023, Australia ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
This morning saw me and the fur kids take a tranquil walk along the beach to start the day.
Just for the scientists out there I thought I would conduct an experiment 😝.
Well, it turns out that ILeggi altro
Preparation day
18 agosto 2023, Australia ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
Well today is our final day in Townsville. After picking Frank up last night from the airport we are prepping to leave tomorrow and continue on with our journey.
So some cleaning, washing, shiftingLeggi altro
Charters Towers
19 agosto 2023, Australia ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
We are on the road again 🚙
First stop is Charters Towers - an old Gold Mining Town with a rich heritage. We got there just after lunch and being a Saturday, everything was either shut or shuttingLeggi altro
Camp for the night
19 agosto 2023, Australia ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C
After Charters Towers we arrived at our camp for the night - not much but it is home for the night.
Jurassic Park
20 agosto 2023, Australia ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
Today we entered the start of a two day Jurassic Tour. We arrive in Hughenden and paid a visit to the dinosaur 🦕🦖 museum.
We then hit the road along the Australian Dinosaur Trail towards Winton.
Camping Jurassic style 🤣
20 agosto 2023, Australia ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
Tonight we are camping just outside if Winton before we head to Australian Age of Dinosaurs
Australian Age of Dinosaurs
21 agosto 2023, Australia ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C
Today we headed to the Australian Age of Dinosaurs 🦖 where we got a guided tour of the March of the Titanosaurs and got to wander through Dinosaur Canyon.
This is a budding Paleontologists dream.Leggi altro
Qantas Founders Museum
22 agosto 2023, Australia ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
Longreach - the birthplace of Qantas ✈️
So let’s go and have a look at it. A tour of the original hangar and then onto viewing the original planes DC3 - Boeing 707 - Boeing 747 Our tour guideLeggi altro
Longreach Powerhouse Museum
23 agosto 2023, Australia ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C
Before leaving Longreach we headed to the Powerhouse Museum and was enthralled with all the old stuff. It was like walking into a time capsule and sadly I remember using some of the stuff 😝
FrankLeggi altro
Barcaldine
23 agosto 2023, Australia ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
On our journey we passed through the town of Barcaldine - apparently the birthplace of the Labour Party 🤔 and home to the tree of knowledge.
To me just a small cute outback country town.
Sculpture Trail - part 1
23 agosto 2023, Australia ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C
Well a small miscalculation saw us start the Sculpture Trail just out of Aramac at the finish 😳🙄😝 as we seem to tend to do on occasion.
Check out some of the sculptures along the way -Leggi altro
Lake Dunn
23 agosto 2023, Australia ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
Our miscalculation saw us camping at Lake Dunn - an oasis in the outback
Sculpture Trail part 2
24 agosto 2023, Australia ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
All rested and ready for the last part of the sculpture trail
Have to say the dusty road section of the trail was much better.
Still a 200 km deviation was worth it, just adding to the adventureLeggi altro
Blackall
24 agosto 2023, Australia ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
A quick stop in Blackall on our way to Charleville with an overnight camp at Barcoo River.
Apparently in Blackall you are officially beyond the black stump. 🤔😳
Tambo to Charleville
25 agosto 2023, Australia ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
A stop in Tambo to check out the famous Tambo Teddies - an industry that was used to help with the wool crisis in 1992/1993. It started out small with some volunteers used to make the teddies 🧸 andLeggi altro
Charleville
26 agosto 2023, Australia ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
Today we saw the release of a weather balloon 🎈 from the local weather station. A first for me - all fully automated.
A wander through the WWII ‘secret base’ museum. Outback Queensland is aLeggi altro
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Relaxing
27 agosto 2023, Australia ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
After leaving Charleville we drove through a number of small towns - Morven - Mungallala - Mitchell - Amby - Muckadilla and settled in Roma
Spent a lovely afternoon at the Western Queensland SpiritLeggi altro
