Bathurst
12 czerwca 2021, Australia ⋅ ⛅ 6 °C
Day one completed soft start to make sure we didn’t forget anything and everything works.
Everything works, probably forgot something don’t know what it is yet.
Day 2 Hay
13 czerwca 2021, Australia ⋅ ⛅ 11 °C
Day 2 started late because we did forget something and had to buy it and we needed to go see Robs dad.
Long drive with a stop in Cowra for lunch, now maybe it’s just me but I didn’t realise that Czytaj więcej
Frog hunting in Balranald
14 czerwca 2021, Australia ⋅ ☁️ 11 °C
Port Germein
14 czerwca 2021, Australia ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C
Stopped for the night in Port Germein. Very pretty where we are but a little dark for proper photos.
Coober Pedy
15 czerwca 2021, Australia ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
We have arrived for the first of two nights here. Settling in tonight then exploring tomorrow. Jenson is so excited because we have entered the desert and therefore our holiday is official.
Old Timers mine
16 czerwca 2021, Australia ⋅ 🌙 12 °C
Enjoyed exploring through the old mine Jenson especially loved the treasure map style of the self guided tour. Bit cramped in places poor Rob spent a good portion of the tour bent double I didn't Czytaj więcej
The Big Winch
16 czerwca 2021, Australia ⋅ 🌙 12 °C
I found the most interesting part of this look out not to be the massive winch but a tree sculpture made out of parts from an old truck, it claims to be the first tree in Coober Pedy.
Serbian Orthodox Church (underground)
16 czerwca 2021, Australia ⋅ ⛅ 12 °C
This was just beautiful and so peaceful, photos seriously can't do it justice. Jenson lit a candle for his grandad and Evie and I lit one for a friend, its an amazing reflective practice Ive never had Czytaj więcej
The Breakaways
16 czerwca 2021, Australia ⋅ 🌙 11 °C
Sunset at the breakaways lookout, Benny the bear got in on the action this time
Geographic centre of Australia
17 czerwca 2021, Australia ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
Camping for the night in the centre of Australia, very peaceful and quiet.
Mt Dare
18 czerwca 2021, Australia ⋅ ☁️ 14 °C
We have officially started the Simpson desert part of your trip entering the first of four parks that we pass through in three different states.
Dalhousie springs
18 czerwca 2021, Australia ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C
Camped for the night at Dalhousie springs beautiful place made even better by the hot springs. It’s like a warm bath only about 50 times the size and it never goes cold.
Purni Bore
19 czerwca 2021, Australia ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
Smaller and hotter spring than Dalhousie but unlike Dalhousie it’s not a natural spring. Miners drilled through to and then capped the spring but the cap degraded over time and so it became the Czytaj więcej
First camp fire
19 czerwca 2021, Australia ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C
First camp fire for the trip, won’t be able to have too many as we can’t collect wood out here. We are camped for the night with no one around in fact we haven’t seen another car since about 1pm Czytaj więcej
Lone gum tree and sheer terror
20 czerwca 2021, Australia ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C
I drove today, all day on the dunes it got so bumpy at times my butt left the seat, luckily I’m short enough I didn’t knock myself out on roof. I did it though and we didn’t get bogged so win Czytaj więcej
Geared up ventures
21 czerwca 2021, Australia ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C
So not much happened today just lots of driving though we did see a water hole we were not expecting surrounded by lots of tiny birds with some obvious camel traffic though we are yet to see an actual Czytaj więcej
Poeppel’s corner
22 czerwca 2021, Australia ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C
We were in three places at once today at Poeppel corner where NT, SA and QLD meet. Benny bear even got to sign his name in the visitor book.
Big Red
23 czerwca 2021, Australia ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C
We made it through the Simpson and conquered Big Red. The way Jenson was acting you would think he personally drove the entire trip.
Boulia
24 czerwca 2021, Australia ⋅ 🌧 16 °C
We camped overnight at Boulia and spent the morning exploring the Min Min experience and homestead museum which included dinosaur fossils.
I learnt of a Matron who was essentially the only medical Czytaj więcej
Day off
25 czerwca 2021, Australia ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C
Settled and quiet day off in Mt Isa essentially doing nothing but letting the kids play and run around with a day out of the car.
It’s been nice to sit back and just read while the kids play.
Walkabout Creek Hotel
26 czerwca 2021, Australia ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
Stopped for a drink the kids got the hard stuff.
Oondooroo station
26 czerwca 2021, Australia ⋅ 🌙 15 °C
Great camping site with friendly caretakers and animals with beautiful sunsets. Also the site the first riot of the Shearing union they burned down the shearing shed during the 1890s
Dinosaur stampede
27 czerwca 2021, Australia ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
Jenson loved this. The only evidence of a dinosaur stampede anywhere in the world. We go tomorrow to the age of dinosaurs museum where we will see Banjo a dinosaur they found near by who perfectly Czytaj więcej
Waltzing Matilda centre
27 czerwca 2021, Australia ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
A museum dedicated to the song and the outback there were some really amazing items and exhibits as well as stuff for the kids to interact with.
Australian Age of Dinosaurs
28 czerwca 2021, Australia ⋅ ☀️ 12 °C
Had lots of fun here learning about dinosaurs today. Very interactive with passports for the kids, Jenson in particular was too excited to stand still at some points.