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Day 151
Monday, June 2, 2025
☀️ 19 °C
Altitude: 12 m
Australia Central Coast Council -33.378212, 151.47308333°22’42” S 151°28’23” E
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Champion Material!
June 2 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C
Jet is a Pain in the arse, however, apparently he has good roots. His brother Marcus’, has just been crowned Australian champion, not sure what happened to Jett though 😂
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Day 148
Friday, May 30, 2025
⛅ 19 °C
Altitude: 7 m
Australia Central Coast Council -33.259703, 151.4586533°15’35” S 151°27’31” E
Our First Investment Property
May 30 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 19 °C
We purchased our first investment property. It’s twice the size of our house and we really noticed it when we decided to clean it up ourselves getting it ready to rent. We had plenty of help but it was still an enormous task. This purchase is the start of our next plan and hopefully will have us travelling again sooner…… fingers crossed 🤞Read more
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Day 148
Friday, May 30, 2025 at 1:25 PM
☀️ 20 °C
Altitude: 8 m
Australia Central Coast Council -33.409019, 151.35597233°24’32” S 151°21’21” E
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Zone Cross Country
May 30 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
16th out of 60 great job mate.

3km of cross country track.

Thanks for taking him poppy Vince.
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Traveler Good on you Lachlan 💕❤️
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Day 146
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 11:36 AM
☀️ 18 °C
Altitude: 9 m
Australia Central Coast Council -33.378742, 151.48498733°22’43” S 151°29’6” E
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Me Day
May 28 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
Since we have been back from traveling, I decided that instead of rushing around like an idiot, I would take a mental health day on migraine injection days.

I always make my appointment for first thing in the morning, so it doesn’t impede my day!

So I had my injections, treated my self to Guzman and Gomez for lunch, went for a walk on the beach and found some pretty shells, got a chai and then the best part a 90min massage. The massage was a birthday gift from my Aunty Jo and it was amazing. I felt so relaxed afterwards, that the dog didn’t get his walk, as I went home to lay down and watch Netflix .

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TravelerSounds like a perfect day 👌
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TravelerSounds perfect . You deserve a me day 😍
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TravelerGlad you enjoyed massage
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Day 143
Sunday, May 25, 2025 at 1:04 PM
☀️ 18 °C
Altitude: 8 m
Australia Central Coast Council -33.379883, 151.47094733°22’48” S 151°28’15” E
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Jetty 😍
May 25 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
He is just so cute 🥰
Traveler Those puppy dog eyes 😍
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TravelerHe is beautiful, reminds me of my old girl back home. Xx
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Day 140
Thursday, May 22, 2025
🌧 19 °C
Altitude: 8 m
Australia Central Coast Council -33.379804, 151.47091133°22’47” S 151°28’15” E
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Yahoo! We Found Another 😊
May 22 in Australia ⋅ 🌧 19 °C
After the dog ate Lauren’s precious Sea Dragons, we decided to meet the very next afternoon at north entrance to look again. We had little hope after all the rain, big seas and large tides, but if you never go, you never know.
The first time we found Sea Dragons it was rainbows and blue sky’s, but today was torrential rain, cold, getting dark and cyclonic winds, but we found one, Yahoo!
Loz was happy, and I was happy she was happy 😊
Happy Days!
We both ended up saturated and freezing but It was definitely worth it.
Jett…. You live to fight another day 😂Read more
Traveler Lucky Jett didn't find it first .
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Day 140
Thursday, May 22, 2025
🌧 19 °C
Altitude: 8 m
Australia Central Coast Council -33.379708, 151.4709533°22’47” S 151°28’15” E
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Jett Was Nearly Put Up For Adoption
May 22 in Australia ⋅ 🌧 19 °C
Apparently dried out Sea Dragons make for a great dog treat! 😳
Whilst out at dinner, our part mountain goat ‘Jett’, decided to climb up on a chair, then onto a stack of chairs, and then onto the BBQ lid to take Lauren’s most prized Sea Dragons we found a week ago. Lauren was so happy finding washed up Sea Dragons at North Entrance Beach after looking for them on nearly every beach in Australia during our 3 years of travel with no luck. They are obviously quite rare to find on a beach and we found 2, stoked was an understatement, she and I were both ecstatic to find them so close to home. However, our dog enjoyed not one, but two dried out Sea Dragons as a crispy treat. I told Lauren I could fix him, and she definitely paused and thought about it before saying…… No
But she was devastated, and I was very pissed 😠Read more
TravelerMmm mmmm dog chews , crunchy 😋
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Day 136
Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 7:25 PM
🌧 15 °C
Altitude: 14 m
Australia Central Coast Council -33.2259, 151.53475833°13’33” S 151°32’5” E
Ellie’s Bday Dinner
May 18 in Australia ⋅ 🌧 15 °C
Ellie loved the earrings Brax made for her 🥰 and they looked beautiful on.

We all celebrated Ellie’s birthday with dinner at the Soccer Club.
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Day 134
Friday, May 16, 2025 at 6:50 PM
☁️ 17 °C
Altitude: 8 m
Australia Central Coast Council -33.379795, 151.47087233°22’47” S 151°28’15” E
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More Ice Cream
May 16 in Australia ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C
“My dad said I couldn’t have any ice cream tonight cos I chewed up his hose! But my mummy gave me some anyway!”

This dogs facial expressions crack me up!
TravelerThe 'OMG' poppy eyes 👀 🤣🤣🤣
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Traveler Those eyes
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Day 130
Monday, May 12, 2025 at 6:21 PM
☁️ 18 °C
Altitude: 8 m
Australia Central Coast Council -33.379895, 151.47090333°22’48” S 151°28’15” E
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Mmmm ice cream
May 12 in Australia ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C
Yummy, special doggy dessert.

Me “Look what I got Jett”
Brett “ that is not for the dog?”
Me “ yes, of course it is”
Brett 🙄
Traveler Mmmm yummy pea ice cream 🍦 😋 🤣
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TravelerWell there is no chance of you eating Jett's ice cream, Lauren. Peas!! 🤢🤣🤣
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TravelerOr me 🤢🤢
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Day 129
Sunday, May 11, 2025
☀️ 19 °C
Altitude: 8 m
Australia Central Coast Council -33.379817, 151.47091733°22’47” S 151°28’15” E
Mothers Day!
May 11 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C
Happy Mothers Day Babe!
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Day 128
Saturday, May 10, 2025 at 5:15 PM
☁️ 18 °C
Altitude: 8 m
Australia Central Coast Council -33.379856, 151.47087133°22’47” S 151°28’15” E
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Jewelry Making
May 10 in Australia ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C
Brax has a little girlfriend🥰, and it is her birthday coming up.

He decided to make her some earrings from some of the gems he collected when he travelled around Australia.

We went online and ordered some snaptite earring bases. When they arrived he popped the gems in. It was so easy and they looked great 😍. I even had cute little shell box to put them in.

Hope she likes them 😍.Read more
TravelerThey look awesome 😍❤️❤️
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TravelerAww they are lovely 😍
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Day 127
Friday, May 9, 2025 at 8:34 AM
⛅ 14 °C
Altitude: 15 m
Australia Central Coast Council -33.354308, 151.3690833°21’16” S 151°22’9” E
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Mother’s Day Breakfast
May 9 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C
My last school Mother’s Day breakfast. It was a bit sad 😢!
TravelerBit sad I missed the last one 😢
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Traveler 😍😍beautiful photo.
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Day 122
Sunday, May 4, 2025 at 10:12 AM
⛅ 18 °C
Altitude: 65 m
Australia Sydney -33.811303, 150.8707733°48’41” S 150°52’15” E
Top Fuelers and Nitro Funny Cars Continu
May 4 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
Got some great photos using Lauren’s camera, look at those flames!🔥👀
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Day 122
Sunday, May 4, 2025 at 8:00 AM
⛅ 12 °C
Altitude: 65 m
Australia Sydney -33.811303, 150.8707733°48’41” S 150°52’15” E
Top Fuelers and Nitro Funny Cars
May 4 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 12 °C
Once a year the Nitro Top Fuelers come to Eastern Creek and Wow! They are impressive!

12,000hp Monsters that blast sound and shock waves through your body, your eyes shake and the air around you feels like it is bending and warping as they tear down the 300 meter strip in 3.6 seconds.

We all had a great day and seeing Pete’s reaction as a first timer was priceless, I don’t think anyone anticipates how violent and fast these cars are……. They are truly Incredible!

Some Interesting Top Fueler Facts

Dragsters reach over 500kph before you have read this sentence.

In order to reach 320kph well before half-track, the launch acceleration approaches 8 G's

The supercharger takes more power to drive than a stock HEMI makes

The fuel mixture is compressed into a nearly solid form before ignition and Cylinders run on the verge of hydraulic lock.

Dual magnetos apply 44 amps to each spark plug. This is the output of an arc welder in each cylinder.

Spark plug electrodes are totally consumed during a pass. After 1/2 track the engine is dieseling from the compression plus the glow of the exhaust valves at 800 degrees. The engine can only be shut down by cutting off it's fuel supply

Nitro methane burns yellow. The spectacular white flame seen above the exhaust stacks at night is raw burning hydrogen, dissociated from atmospheric water vapor by the searing exhaust gasses

To witness these beasts in the flesh should be on everyone’s bucket list. There is fast…….. and then there is Nitro Fast 🔥😂😎Read more
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Day 117
Tuesday, April 29, 2025 at 9:19 PM
🌧 17 °C
Altitude: 8 m
Australia Central Coast Council -33.379847, 151.47090333°22’47” S 151°28’15” E
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Happy Birthday Jett
April 29 in Australia ⋅ 🌧 17 °C
Jett is one!

It was too wet to celebrate with an outing, but he was pretty happy with his cake and biscuit.

The kids and Brett even enjoyed the cake, they didn’t believe me that it was dog food 🤷🏼‍♀️🤣Read more
TravelerHappy 1st birthday Jett 🎂. Can't believe he's a year old already!🐶
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TravelerI know !
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Day 114
Saturday, April 26, 2025 at 7:53 PM
🌧 16 °C
Altitude: 440 m
Australia Liverpool Plains Shire Council -31.635092, 150.72247231°38’6” S 150°43’21” E
Last Night In the Van
April 26 in Australia ⋅ 🌧 16 °C
The plan was fossick, another play in the amazing playground, more hot chips and Pluto pups for lunch, pub stay for the last night and a good pub feed!

Well we got most of the plan in, but the rain started right as we left ( a little later than planned), it rained the whole drive to the pub, we pulled up and it was pitch black! A black out! No pub feed for us! Brett found a truck stop 20km up the rd. As we pulled up to the truck stop it was all boarded up! No truck stop food for us either! Gravel pit and noodle cups it was 🤣🤣

Last day of the trip was a ripper, potentially the last night in the van ever, not so great 😢.Read more
TravelerAre you getting anew van
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TravelerUpgrading to a tent
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TravelerEek that will be a big change!
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Traveler🤣🤣 , going old school
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Day 114
Saturday, April 26, 2025 at 3:44 PM
🌧 18 °C
Altitude: 797 m
Australia Inverell Shire Council -29.894256, 151.22537529°53’39” S 151°13’31” E
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My Fossicking finds
April 26 in Australia ⋅ 🌧 18 °C
A few pics of my fav jelly beans and crystals finds from Tingah.
TravelerThey are soon pretty 😍
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Day 113
Friday, April 25, 2025 at 4:23 PM
☁️ 20 °C
Altitude: 795 m
Australia Tingha -29.960512, 151.21453929°57’38” S 151°12’52” E
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Green Vally Farm Stay 2
April 25 in Australia ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C
And the fun just keeps on coming.
Traveler That's an interesting sea saw.
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Traveler Bloody hell! 🤦‍♀️
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Traveler Oh Lordy! This was definitely made before OH&S!
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TravelerLooks like a fun place for the adventurous.
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Day 113
Friday, April 25, 2025 at 3:53 PM
☁️ 20 °C
Altitude: 873 m
Australia Tingha -29.987461, 151.3010129°59’15” S 151°18’4” E
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Green Valley Farm Stay 1
April 25 in Australia ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C
Water slides
Mega slide
Jumping pillow
Animals
Play grounds galore
Putt putt
Splash park
Tennis court
Museum
Mary go round
Pony rides

And a heap of crazy crazy home made see saws and play equipment to keep the kids busy for hours and hours and hours!

Everywhere you turned at this place there was something else to play on, explore or do!

And apparently the best Pluto pups ever!

An absolute must stay, we are already planning a trip back!Read more
TravelerIt looks fantastic!
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TravelerIt looks like a lot of fun things to do there. 👏👏
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Traveler I used to love this when we were small- this is an antique!
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Day 113
Friday, April 25, 2025 at 12:02 PM
☀️ 22 °C
Altitude: 796 m
Australia Inverell Shire Council -29.893472, 151.22433429°53’36” S 151°13’28” E
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Finally Fossicking Again
April 25 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C
I forgot how much I love fossicking!

Lyla has been wanting to go fossicking since she saw all the treasures I collected on our trip around Aus!

These holidays, we decided to try out some fossicking near Glenn Innis. I was really worried that Lyla would be disappointed, I know how hard it can be to find anything and we were going to new grounds!

So I researched, touched base with Dawn and Steve and took a trip to the local information centre! Armed with lots of information I selected the place I thought would be the best for Lyla and the other kids.

We had 4 very successful days of fossicking ( thank god). We found lots of jelly beans ( water washed quartz and Smokey quartz), crystals of various kinds and some topaz.

The jelly bean finding was lots of fun, the kids were getting some in every sieve and it kept them interested for hours.

After 2 days of collecting jelly beans we decided to explore a bit further. We went driving and found a spot to get to the creek further up stream. It was like an Easter egg hunt, but for crystals. They were logged in the cracks of the rocks, in the little pools of the water and amongst the little pebble deposits, again so much fun. I think that Lyla enjoyed finding her own gems, but I think Shaun is as addicted to fossicking as Brett and I!

Jett also loved fossicking, he would run, swim, dig and chew sticks for hours. As soon as he got in the car he would crash out instantly falling asleep and snoring loudly. Now we just need to teach him to sniff out the good stuff, sapphires and diamonds would be good 🤣.Read more
Traveler 😍. Love it 😀
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Traveler They are so good
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TravelerGood clean family fun 😁
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Day 111
Wednesday, April 23, 2025 at 7:00 AM
⛅ 13 °C
Altitude: 160 m
Australia Moree Plains Shire Council -29.49925, 149.273329°29’57” S 149°16’24” E
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Sunrise Drives
April 23 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C
Watching the sun rise as we drive from Lightning Ridge to Green Valley Farm.

Jett has been loving snuggling up to the boys for the car rides. He makes sure to be far and share his cuddles evenly between the boys.Read more
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Day 110
Tuesday, April 22, 2025 at 10:04 AM
☀️ 19 °C
Altitude: 137 m
Australia Lightning Ridge -29.431456, 147.97169529°25’53” S 147°58’18” E
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Exploring Lightning Ridge
April 22 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C
A day in Lightning Ridge

Morning bath ( the best part of Lightning Ridge)
Fossick in a noodle pit
Explore the town
- Australian Opal Centre
- John Murry’s Art Gallery - amazing art work
- bottle house ( what a flop)
- Amigo’s Castle - this was very interesting
- walk through mine tour ( another flop)

Headed out of town to a free camp for the night

Lightning Ridge was not quite what we were expecting, we were all hoping for a Coober Pedy experience and we all a bit disappointed. Lucky the bore bath was good 🤣.Read more
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TravelerYou didn't see the tall emu ? The chamber of the black hand was a good tour with all the carvings in the walls of the mine .
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TravelerYea we did, we just didn’t stop. The kids wanted to do the mine tour which was a flop! Should have done the carvings, but the info centre didn’t even mention that 🤷🏼‍♀️. We were bit rushed too
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Day 109
Monday, April 21, 2025 at 4:36 PM
☀️ 23 °C
Altitude: 131 m
Australia Lightning Ridge -29.422747, 147.99789429°25’22” S 147°59’52” E
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Lightning Ridge
April 21 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C
A refreshing soak in the artisan bore bath was heaven.

We found ourselves a gravel pit for the night away from any people 🤣 and lit a fire to cook up our dinner.
Traveler Soo cute 😍
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TravelerDoing what you did round Australia 🇦🇺
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TravelerIt's a warm one , that bore pool .
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Day 108
Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 7:14 AM
☁️ 15 °C
Altitude: 292 m
Australia Gilgandra Shire Council -31.816458, 148.78167831°48’59” S 148°46’54” E
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Happy Easter
April 20 in Australia ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C
From hunting pigs to hunting for chocolate eggs!

The kids are never too big for a good Easter egg hunt!

Jett was also very pleased with his carob biscuits the Easter Bunny left him, he didn’t want to put them down.Read more
Traveler They too yummy ,Mum🐶
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TravelerLooks like a fun day 🐇🍫
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Traveler 😍 lots of yummy eggs 🥚
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