Life In A Camper Trailer

We left on Friday the 28th and since then we've driven 2200 km averaging 314 km per day. We have also, by the end of the day, spent 29 hours in the car averaging 4 hours and 8 1/2 minutes per day.
It was sad saying goodbye to Rosie my cat, Rogan the family cat and Zack Ben's dog but are very glad that Izzy is there to look after them.
So far we've spent most our time on the road but when not on the road we've managed to go to our friends house in Melbourne, go to the MCG to watch Carlton Vs Sydney ( Carlton won ) and go to Taronga Zoo in Dubbo NSW.
The first night when we were on the boat none of us had a very good sleep. The next night we stayed at our friends house in Melbourne and from there we headed up to Narrandera and stayed at Old Brewery Flats on the Murrumbidgee river, on the first day of driving we had made it to NSW. The border between Victoria and NSW is the Murray River we stopped at the border for lunch and a fish. The next day we had a short drive to Dubbo. We stopped at Dubbo for a rest day, on our rest day we went to the zoo. At the zoo we went to lots of talks about the animals. We also got to see some animals getting fed. Our dad told us that we could pick any animal to do a mini project on, I chose Asian Elephants. As we were driving up from Dubbo we saw some white stuff on the side of the road, we discovered that it was cotton and learnt a bit about cotton farming. We also saw lots of big trucks with cotton bales on them and some cool models of the planets in our solar system. Last night we stayed at road side stop in Goondiwindi and today we are driving up to our Uncles farm in Boompa.Read more

On Friday the 2nd of June we arrived in Undara Volcanic Park. We arrived quite early and set up. That day we went for a walk to Flat Rock and Circle View. At Circle View we climbed up on top of the rocks and could see for ages in every direction.
That night we went to a fireside quiz.
The next morning we got up considerably early to walk around Kalkani (cow-car-knee) Crater. It was very windy on top of the crater but very sheltered when we went down inside. There was lots of information boards explaining how craters form.
It was about 1.8 km round the rim plus a bit extra to get to the rim.
The Kalkani Crater is in the Undara Volcanic Park and is years old. Kalkani Crater was formed by a build up of pressure under the earth this cause an explosion . The explosion causes molten and solid rock to be pushed up to the surface and pile on top of each other. This creates the walls of the crater.
There are multiple different types of volcanoes. Two examples are a Shield Explosion and a Explosion. A Shield Explosion is when the lava just oozes out causing a flatter and slower explosion, unlike Kalkani which was an Explosion.
Volcanic rocks found in the area include Massive Pink Granite and Basalt.

After Kalkani we went on a Lava Tube tour, our guide was Wes. Wes told us all about the founder of the tours and how they discovered the Lava Tubes. The tour went into the Lava Tubes. In the Lava Tubes we saw a Southern Boobook Owl. Wes stopped a fair bit to tell us about some different things. The tour itself was very interesting.
That afternoon we drove to Routh Creek.Read more