Change of schedule
2023年8月8日, オーストラリア ⋅ ⛅ 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 theもっと詳しく
Townsville
2023年8月9日, オーストラリア ⋅ ☀️ 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 withもっと詳しく
Townsville
2023年8月10日, オーストラリア ⋅ ☀️ 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 ofもっと詳しく
Rest day
2023年8月11日, オーストラリア ⋅ ⛅ 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 helpもっと詳しく
Magnetic Island
2023年8月12日, オーストラリア ⋅ ☀️ 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 toもっと詳しく
Sunday relaxing
2023年8月13日, オーストラリア ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
What else are you supposed to do on a Sunday but relax 😔
Productive day
2023年8月14日, オーストラリア ⋅ 🌙 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 forもっと詳しく
The Palmetum
2023年8月15日, オーストラリア ⋅ ☀️ 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 SASもっと詳しく
Experiment
2023年8月16日, オーストラリア ⋅ ☀️ 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 Iもっと詳しく
Preparation day
2023年8月18日, オーストラリア ⋅ ☀️ 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, shiftingもっと詳しく
Charters Towers
2023年8月19日, オーストラリア ⋅ ☀️ 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 shuttingもっと詳しく
Camp for the night
2023年8月19日, オーストラリア ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C
After Charters Towers we arrived at our camp for the night - not much but it is home for the night.
Jurassic Park
2023年8月20日, オーストラリア ⋅ ☀️ 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 🤣
2023年8月20日, オーストラリア ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
Tonight we are camping just outside if Winton before we head to Australian Age of Dinosaurs
Australian Age of Dinosaurs
2023年8月21日, オーストラリア ⋅ ☀️ 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.もっと詳しく
Qantas Founders Museum
2023年8月22日, オーストラリア ⋅ ☀️ 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 guideもっと詳しく
Longreach Powerhouse Museum
2023年8月23日, オーストラリア ⋅ ☀️ 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 😝
Frankもっと詳しく
Barcaldine
2023年8月23日, オーストラリア ⋅ ☀️ 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
2023年8月23日, オーストラリア ⋅ ☀️ 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 -もっと詳しく
Lake Dunn
2023年8月23日, オーストラリア ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
Our miscalculation saw us camping at Lake Dunn - an oasis in the outback
Sculpture Trail part 2
2023年8月24日, オーストラリア ⋅ ☀️ 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 adventureもっと詳しく
Blackall
2023年8月24日, オーストラリア ⋅ ☀️ 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
2023年8月25日, オーストラリア ⋅ ☀️ 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 🧸 andもっと詳しく
Charleville
2023年8月26日, オーストラリア ⋅ ☀️ 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 aもっと詳しく
