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September 2020 - September 2021
  • Robin De Falbaire
  • Lara Brooks
A 365-day adventure by Robin & Lara Read more
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    Black Rocks Camp Ground

    October 26, 2020 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 20 °C

    Camp site in the sand dunes of 10 mile beach. Camp site was spread out and quiet. The black soft rocks along the beach are different to your normal sand dunes.
    We woke up early to do a 2 / 3 hour walk - Jerusalem Creek walk. Was very quite and no one else was on the walk we did that day. So it was us and nature.
    The walk was quiet as we saw a large snake the day before and we were both a bit anxious that one may POP out at us at any time. When we reached the end of the walk, where the river /creek reached the see, we found some nice stones to skip across the water and watched the huge eagles fly above our heads.

    Once we had taken in the scenery of what Jerusalem creek and 10 mile beach had to offer, we decided to jog back to the car, so we could warm up for a nice swim.

    We got back to the car all sweaty and ready for a swim. The water was a bit treacherous from Lara’s perspective, so it took a while for her to work up the courage. But Robin dove straight in, like he was a fish out of water. Was a lovely quick swim.

    This campsite also has some great views of sunset if you climb up any of the sand dunes and what the sun disappear behind the mountains.    Read more

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    Iluka - Free Camping

    October 28, 2020 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C

    Iluka was on our radar as when we stayed in Yamba, we saw that it was a town surrounded by water, but also a little quieter and a bit more remote. We were ready for some peace and quiet after our 2 weeks in the hustle and bustle of Byron.
    We drove around Iluka. It was a bit cold and windy with a storm coming. Robin braved the weather and went for a surf, but was out within 20 minutes due to a ‘shark sighting’.
    We headed to a picnic area near woody head, where we would cook a nice dinner and have an early night as it was raining heavily.
    We met a lovely eccentric nomad who was about 60 years old. She had been hitch hiking all around Australia - this included getting into yachts as well. Her name was Michelle and Lara and her had a strong connection as Michelle had a “feeling” that I was a kiwi.
    She told us all about her travels, her issues and her life lessons. She gave us some foraging tips of some of the plants and mushrooms that you could eat in the area.
    She also recommended the rainforest walk, which we also did, and it was lovely.    Read more

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    Border Ranges National Park

    October 30, 2020 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C

    We headed to border ranges national park after recommendation from local green politician and activist Ian Cohen who gave us his book 'Green Fire'.

    We met a couple of locals, Natasha and Bruce at the campsite, who have been coming here for 30 years. We went bush walking with them and they told us more about the beauty of this place:

    It's a range of mountains which is part of the old super volcano in the tweed Valley. The national park is composed of old dense rainforest which hosts millenial trees called 'antartic beech'.

    Natasha and Bruce were super generous, invited us to their place. Every monday night they have friends over and play awesome music. It was a real private concert for us!    Read more

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    Noosa

    November 2, 2020 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C

    Ambre and Andrien joined us for a few days in Noosa. Activities included:
    - small waves surfing with paddle, longboard.
    - fishing: snot algae in the river unfortunately so no catch...
    - bush walking along the beautiful headlands.
    - paddle boarding along the river.

    We also went to noosa north shore via a ferry, did some 4wd on the beach and launched our kite from the north shore of the river.

    PS: the car locked with keys inside, we had to get a professional to unlock it for us. (Lara's fault)    Read more

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    Frazer Island

    November 9, 2020 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 22 °C

    We spent a week in Frazer Island and were not prepared to encounter such a wild and remote place...
    - many Dingoes, we saw at least 6-7
    - no sealed road, only bumpy sandy tracks
    - bugs and flies everywhere
    - swimming is prohibited on the east side as it is shark infested
    - many bush fires, some camping grounds had to be evacuated.
    - only two places to get water, food and pretrol (costing twice as much as on the main land)
    - a lot of algaes on the coast at this time of the year making it harder to fish (Lara still caught two brims)

    It's a 4x4 only island where it's faster to travel on the beach at low tide than on the inland tracks.

    The national sport on the island is to find a spot where the sand is really soft, drink beers and watch cars as they get stuck in the sand. Obviously our delica got bogged a few times but we are now better at getting her out. And overall she handled it pretty well even thought she needs to get lifted up as we did not have enough ground clearance to go all the way up to the sandy cape.

    We spent 2 nights on the west side which was sheltered from the wind and waves of the Pacific Ocean. The water was crystal clear and the sand white as snow (eh oh).    Read more

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    Urangan Peir - Sea side entertainment

    November 16, 2020 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C

    Heading north, we visited a few spots to do laundry, Robbie spent all day in the hot sun fixing some electrics of the car.. he now claims he is a electrician and a mechanic.
    We stopped in some small towns, and stayed in some national parks, nothing really to note there.

    On Monday we went to a lovely little spot near Hervey Bay called Urangan Pier. The pier stretches for almost a kilometre, and is one of the longest in Australia. We strolled down there and noticed that there were many people with karts carrying all their fishing gear, 5-10 rods per person, buckets, nets, bait.. as we walked along the pier we looked over the railing into the water and saw the amazing amount of activity in the water. Giant trevally chasing schools of bait fish, people catching sting rays, flat head and whiting all over the place. This spot was obviously for game fishing as people were geared up to catch anything. At one point we noticed that the birds were getting in on the action by waiting for a fisherman to throw in his bait, and then diving under the water to grab the bait straight off the hook. Honestly you could stay there all day watching the activity on that Pier. Highly recommend a visit there.

    Didn’t take any videos of the sea action, but Robbie put on a show for the camera x    Read more

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    Elliott Heads, QLD, Australia

    November 19, 2020 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 27 °C

    We had way to much fun at Elliott’s Head that we forgot to take photos. But this is an absolute superb spot for kiting.. and to prove it Lara even had a go. There is a beautiful inlet as well as the open waters, so you get the safety of the bay/inlet and the waves for those adrenaline junkies like Robin.
    We met some lovely kiters as well while we were there, very welcoming and super friendly! Even offered there driveway for us to sleep in, and had only spoken to them for 5 mins..

    Photo of robin was from Lennox head, but we threw it in for a marker :)    Read more

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    Deep Water National Park

    November 21, 2020 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C

    We came into Deep Water National Park from the north end, as we were coming back from Seventeen Seventy and the free camping site was still closed due to Covid. The sun had already set when we turned it to what we thought was a 20 minute journey into the bush to stay at Middle Rock camp ground. Little did we know we took the hard route in and ended up battling the soft sand road and difficult 4WD track. We got bogged 5 minutes in, and then spent what felt like an hour battling the terrain.
    We finally got to the campsite, had some dinner and tucked ourselves in bed for a well deserved wrest. We would explore in the morning.

    We woke up with the sun and went for a early morning jog on the beach. The location was spectacular. A beautiful beach, a little windy but ZERO people. It was marvellous. Lara went for a little nude swim, the water was beautifully fresh after a nice run on the sand dunes. We then made ourselves a coffee and were packed up ready to move on, stopping at the other campsites to have a shower and a bit of an exploration.

    We found out that we definitely took the hard route, as it only took us 20 minutes to get out, driving south!! Would recommend this National Park if you enjoy the WILD :)

    Sorry only took one photo :)    Read more

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    Tweed River, Murwillumbah (North)Border Ranges (West)Nightcap (South)

    Mount Warning

    November 27, 2020 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C

    Apologies to our dear followers for missing a few footprints due to lack of pictures (having too much fun)!

    We are now on our way down to Tasmania (We are taking the ferry from Melbourne).

    We've been waiting on the Mount Warning track to open while we were in Byron Bay. And were hoping that it would be open by now but still isn't... So we decided to do it anyway!

    We camped overnight at the base of the mountain and woke up at 3am to see the sunrise from the top.

    Many challenges :
    -We had to walk an extra 45min due to the track being closed.
    -Lara had some blood sugar issues.
    -Walking at night, watching for snakes (saw 1) and spiders (saw plenty and were covered in spider webs)

    We pushed throught and made it to the top 45min after sunrise, but what a view! 360° view of the Border Ranges in the west, Nightcap in the south, tweed river in the north and the coast in the east. And what a treat to be the only ones on top of the mountain!

    We got caught by the ranger on our way down, but luckily enough he did not charge us! 🤐    Read more

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    Wooli

    December 1, 2020 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C

    A 40min detour from the highway lead us to the lovely little holiday town of Wooli. Where a long thin strip of land divides the river from the sea. We spent the night free camping not far from the river mouth, spot chosen by Lara, called the "the little hiddy hole" with ultimate river front view!
    We generally leave by 6am, but stayed at that spot for our morning routine and got approached by the ranger at around 9am. He very kindly asked us to move on due to locals complaining at the influx of campers and they are shitting in the bush.

    We did the coastal walk around Diggers Camp, Robin did some kitesurfing as the wind was chokky blocky!    Read more

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