• And we're back!

    March 23, 2024 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 25 °C

    At the end of a year of travel, the 4 adventurers are back home!

    We've got mixed feelings about it as it was an amazing adventure, but it sure is nice to have a couch, and a bed your feet don't hang off, and a toilet you don't have to empty!

    Some stats from the trip:
    - Kilometers travelled: 35,900
    - Locations stopped at: over 100
    - Animals encountered in the wild:
    - Emus (many)
    - Kangaroos (heaps)
    - Seals. sea lions (several)
    - Snakes (several pythons, one tiger snake!)
    - Koalas (loads at 2 locations in Victoria)
    - Eagles, Pelican, loads of Cormorants, Jabiroos, but couldn't "FindPenguins"!
    - Platypus (one in Snowy Mountains)
    - Wombat (one walking along the side of the road)
    - Echidnas (several)
    - Buffaloes (a handful)
    - Feral cats and goats
    - Turtles
    - Sting rays (many small and huge)
    - Sharks (babies thankfully, plus a weird flat one)
    -Whales (from a sea plane)
    - Crocs (several - freshies, maybe some salties)
    - Dingoes (on K'gari)
    - Number of times bogged: 1 - but it was a doozy!
    - Number of flat tyres: 0
    - Number of animals hit: 0 (yay - didn't get bullbar dirty)
    - Top download speed of Starlink 300mb!
    - Amount of tail Bosley had to have chopped off in Cooma: 0.5
    - Length of driveway to Mt Elizabeth station in the Kimberleys: 30 kms
    - Alergic reactions: 1 (Rebecca's face swelled up from a bee sting in the middle of the Nullabor!)
    - Biggest mine: Kalgoorlie super pit (3.5 k x 1.5 k hole)
    - Best burger: Broadarrow travern (just North of Kalgoorlie)
    - Hottest day: 44.5 degrees

    Thanks to everyone for following along, we really appreciated having you along every step of the way!

    And finally for a song to end the trip click go to: https://bbsong.dinn.com/ or this link: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ma90b5bvv7jfvk5m…
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