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- Day 320
- Friday, February 9, 2024 at 4:36 PM
- ☀️ 31 °C
- Altitude: 4 m
- Australia Hamilton Lagoons -33.600222, 137.92991733°36’1” S 137°55’48” E
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Port Broughton and Yorke Peninsula
February 9, 2024 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 31 °C
We stayed a few days at Port Broughton at the top of the Yorke peninsula in South Australia and explored the peninsula which was beautiful and mostly undeveloped.

Lots of quaint little fishing towns, beautiful coastline and sandstone building. With evidence of a mining history.Read more
TravelerBeautiful 🤩
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TravelerCan’t wait to be there. Love your photos of the camping spots
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Traveler Looks a fab site - again right on the sea front ❤️
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- Day 324
- Tuesday, February 13, 2024 at 5:52 PM
- 🌬 24 °C
- Altitude: 363 m
- Australia Eden Valley -34.656247, 139.10331234°39’22” S 139°6’12” E
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Eden Valley - Barossa
February 13, 2024 in Australia ⋅ 🌬 24 °C
We only spent 3 nights in the Barossa as we have been there before but we still loved it.

We stayed at Eden Valley cricket ground which had a bush campsite and was lovely and peaceful and we had lovely bush walks and the dogs enjoyed the cricket oval.

We met up with Stephan and Kate possibly for the last time on our travels, before they return to Europe, and enjoyed more wineriesRead more
Traveler Looks yummy 😋
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Traveler Really!! Wow!
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Traveler 😂😂😂
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Traveler 😂🥰
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- Day 329
- Sunday, February 18, 2024 at 10:48 AM
- ☁️ 20 °C
- Altitude: 5 m
- Australia Warland Reserve -35.557149, 138.62515335°33’26” S 138°37’31” E
Victor Harbour
February 18, 2024 in Australia ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C
Victor Harbour was a pleasant and picturesque town where Adelaide folks tend to holiday.

It had some great beaches , unique attractions like a horse-drawn tram, and a lot of nature, especially birds like parrots, plovers and penguins.Read more
TravelerYou really are back in civilisation now. Are you going to kangaroo Island?
2/23/24Reply
TravelerNo unfortunately. The cost of the ferry and lack of time now means we can’t do it. We plan on doing it as a separate trip without the dogs
2/24/24Reply
TravelerI agree it is super expensive for the distance.
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- Day 332
- Wednesday, February 21, 2024 at 4:29 PM
- ☀️ 27 °C
- Altitude: 16 m
- Australia Battyes Lake -37.168403, 139.78695537°10’6” S 139°47’13” E
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Robe
February 21, 2024 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
Robe is a lovely SA beachside town.

Lovely beaches (with freezing sea water off the Southern ocean) interesting rock formations, lovely sandstone buildings and a variety of great places to eat and drink.

They also have a fabulous coastal walk passing the Obelisk (coastal monument) and the old gaol ruins.Read more
Traveler Impressive!
2/24/24Reply
Traveler I think that only appeared in 2021. The whole coast is wearing away. Currently big discussions happening about how to save the obelisk from falling into the sea. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-08/robe-cli…
2/24/24Reply
Traveler You’re getting very clever with the drone 👏
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- Day 334
- Friday, February 23, 2024 at 1:18 PM
- 🌬 18 °C
- Altitude: 8 m
- Australia Seacombe Park -38.375205, 142.24089238°22’31” S 142°14’27” E
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Port Fairy
February 23, 2024 in Australia ⋅ 🌬 18 °C
Our first stop in Victoria was Port Fairy. It is a lovely historical port town with a walk over to Griffiths Island wildlife reserve.

We parked next to a river in the Botanical gardens/sportground/caravan park (all rolled into one)!Read more
Traveler Amazing!
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Traveler How clever people are
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Traveler ❤️
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- Day 336
- Sunday, February 25, 2024 at 10:06 AM
- ☀️ 19 °C
- Altitude: Sea level
- Australia Merri Island -38.402454, 142.47705138°24’9” S 142°28’37” E
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Warnambool and the Great Ocean Road.
February 25, 2024 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C
The Great Ocean Road (also known as the Shipwreck coast) is a 243 klm drive along southern Victoria showcasing spectacular coastal scenery and rock formations. WW1 veterans built the road from 1919 to 1933 and it is the world’s longest war memorial.
We explored half of the drive before a detour up to Ballarat and will explore the east side next week.Read more
TravelerThat brings back memories of when we visited a few years ago. It was one of the places our tour went to
3/2/24Reply
Traveler Beautiful 🤩
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Traveler Spectacular
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- Day 341
- Friday, March 1, 2024 at 9:58 AM
- ☁️ 19 °C
- Altitude: 456 m
- Australia Lake Gardens -37.55273, 143.81272837°33’10” S 143°48’46” E
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Ballarat
March 1, 2024 in Australia ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C
We headed to the inland Victorian town of Ballarat made famous in the 19th century gold rush period.

The area was rich in alluvial gold and at the start of the gold rush up to 14kg of gold was found for every 30cms mined! Said to be the richest patch of alluvial gold the world has known.

We didn’t find gold but found wonderful wet lands, parks, botanical gardens and buildings.

We only stayed a couple of days as Kevin had to go to Melbourne for work (on the train) so didn’t explore as much as we hoped unfortunately.Read more
Traveler Edmund Barton looks strikingly similar to Julia Gillard!
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TravelerI thought that 😂
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Traveler😂
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- Day 344
- Monday, March 4, 2024 at 7:43 AM
- ⛅ 13 °C
- Altitude: 15 m
- Australia Cape Marengo -38.77912, 143.66583538°46’45” S 143°39’57” E
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Apollo Bay
March 4, 2024 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C
We have been to many beachside towns in our travels, but Apollo Bay on the Great Ocean Road in Victoria was one of the best.

It had an amazing coastline with large crashing waves. Our caravan park was right on a peninsual into the ocean with great beaches and rock pool walks, as well as a thriving seal colony on an island just out to see.

We also saw our first koalas in the wild! We were thrilled to find 4 koalas in trees by a river as well as by the road.

We also enjoyed the local town with a pub that was the southern-most on the mainland and a cafe with amazing vanilla slices!Read more
Traveler 💖🐾
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Traveler Great photo!!
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TravelerYes, I'm very pleased with how it turned out
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- Day 344
- Monday, March 4, 2024 at 1:26 PM
- ☀️ 16 °C
- Altitude: Sea level
- Australia Nicholson Knoll -38.306147, 144.71374538°18’22” S 144°42’49” E
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Mornington Peninsula and Stony Point
March 4, 2024 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 16 °C
We caught the ferry over from Queenscliff to Sorrento and stayed for a few days in the Mornington Peninsula, where the rich Victorians seem to live.
Our site was at Stony Point, a cute tiny fishing town with its resident seal Elvis and lots of very large black sting rays. We stayed on the west side of the peninsula and explored the town of Mornington and the beautiful coastline side of the east peninsula.Read more
Traveler Great!
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- Day 350
- Sunday, March 10, 2024 at 2:39 PM
- ☁️ 37 °C
- Altitude: 30 m
- Australia Glengarry -38.128986, 146.56387338°7’44” S 146°33’50” E
Glengarry
March 10, 2024 in Australia ⋅ ☁️ 37 °C
We drove through Traralgon to the small country town of Glengarry to stay with our friends Richard and Oonagh. We managed to fit the van on their driveway and had a great couple of days catching up and exploring the area which we really liked. The area was experiencing a heatwave (seems to be a theme with us!) and the temp was in the high 30s whilst we were there so lots of eating and drinking in the AC!Read more
Traveler🥵Sounds like the perfect solution!🍻
3/15/24Reply
TravelerLooks a great property!
3/16/24Reply
TravelerAwesome seeing you guys and catching up......sorry about the heatwave but you'll be glad to know that it's raining now and 16 deg! xx
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- Day 355
- Friday, March 15, 2024 at 8:25 AM
- ☁️ 18 °C
- Altitude: 6 m
- Australia Eagle Point Bay -37.896899, 147.68903637°53’49” S 147°41’21” E
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Eagle Point and Paynesville
March 15, 2024 in Australia ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C
Eagle Point and Paynesville was our last stop in Southern Victoria.

We set up in a park on the edge of the large lake. It was very much back to nature with many water birds, especially swans.

We also took a quick ferry ride across to nearby Raymond Island which was famous for its koalas, and we saw many of them including a mum and baby!

There was also a quite distinctive feature of the second largest "silt jetty" in the world. This is a natural land formation of two thin long strips of land which went kilomters out into the lake. We had to drive all the way to the end!Read more
Traveler Gee! Never seen that before!
3/20/24Reply
TravelerGreat pics, as ever
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Traveler Amazing 🤩💕
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- Day 355
- Friday, March 15, 2024 at 1:23 PM
- ☀️ 17 °C
- Altitude: 1,634 m
- Australia Lower Wire Plain Lookout -36.99488, 147.16917536°59’42” S 147°10’9” E
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Bright and the Victorian Alpine region
March 15, 2024 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 17 °C
We really enjoyed our drive up Mount Hotham and the Victorian alpine region, and down in to the town of Bright (even if it was really scary negotiating hair pin bends with huge cliff drops with a caravan)! The scenery was stunning.

The town of Bright was a delight with perfect Alpine weather and autumn colours. We took long interesting walks with dogs, did long bike rides along the rail trail, walked around the lovely town and river, and frequented the brewery (of course).Read more
TravelerSounds yet another amazing experience!
3/21/24Reply
TravelerWhat a beautiful place. So different from the rugged outback.
3/21/24Reply
Traveler Bravo you guys 👏
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- Day 362
- Friday, March 22, 2024 at 2:09 PM
- ☀️ 21 °C
- Altitude: 578 m
- Australia Kenny -35.224981, 149.15571335°13’30” S 149°9’21” E
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Canberra II
March 22, 2024 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
We got back to Canberra and closed the loop!

This was the last stop in our Big Lap and the first location we had been to twice. As usual Canberra was all about catching up with family, and getting organised for the end of our trip.

This included starting to get the caravan packed and clean, and getting the car serviced and replacing the windscreen which we cracked on the Nullarbor!Read more
Traveler Cheers! Well done for that epic journey and keeping all of US in the loop 🥰👏
3/26/24Reply
TravelerWas great to see how well you’d survived such a tremendous experience! Lifelong memories no doubt
3/26/24Reply
Traveler Glad you cracked open the bubbly 🍾
3/26/24Reply
TravelerWow well done. Collecting soooo many memories is just wonderful and sharing them with all of us has been a joy to follow. Thank you and congratulations “on d lap”
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- Day 363
- Saturday, March 23, 2024 at 2:04 PM
- ⛅ 25 °C
- Altitude: 17 m
- Australia Issy Wyner Reserve -33.86146, 151.17595733°51’41” S 151°10’33” E
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…Read more
TravelerWelcome Home 🥰 🏡 couldn’t open the BBSONG sadly xxx
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TravelerYeah, it plays up, but it should come up eventually. You can also try this: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ma90b5bvv7jfvk5m…
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TravelerCheck out how faded my shirt is from the first footprint. We saw a lot of sun!
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Trip end
March 23, 2024