2023 National Caravan Rally

Heading off to our first National Rally down in Barmera SA. Trip will extend to about 7 weeks with our return trip still not decided. Les mer

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9. mars 2023
2023 National Caravan Rally
Kingaroy QLD
10. mars 2023, Australia ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C
First day of our travels takes us to our Jayco Club Rally at Kingaroy. Australia’s peanut capital and home to one of Qld’s best Premiers, Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen.
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Kingsley Grove Estate Winery tour
10. mars 2023, Australia ⋅ 🌧 23 °C
Checked out this winery with the club and did the wine tastings and wood fired pizza.
Unfortunately for me the wines did not impress me, but maybe just my personal taste buds.
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Bethany Farm, Kingaroy
11. mars 2023, Australia ⋅ 🌧 25 °C
The home estate of Qld’s most famous Premier and his family. Sir Joh & Lady Flo Bjelke-Petersen developed the massive estate over the decades prior to him entering politics.
A tour of the property was with his son John, and of course no visit to Bethany is complete without trying Lady Flo’s famous pumpkin scones.
Amazing to hear the entire family history back to their migration in the 1800’s.Les mer
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Lavender Farm Visit
12. mars 2023, Australia ⋅ 🌧 27 °C
On Sunday some of us made our way to the beautiful lavender farm just outside of Kingaroy and wow, it was stunning. The fragrances were so overwhelming you just wanted to sit down and relax.
So we did with some Lavender scones and coffee.Les mer
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Mt Wooroolin lookout
12. mars 2023, Australia ⋅ ☁️ 29 °C
Made our way up to the lookout at Mt Wooroolin for a Birds Eye view of Kingaroy. Not very high but still gave a good understanding of the area.
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Moonie Crossroads
13. mars 2023, Australia ⋅ ☀️ 31 °C
After our last day at Kingaroy we packed up and headed south. After breakfast in Dalby we arrived to our next destination for our first night stopover.
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Moonie Madness
13. mars 2023, Australia ⋅ ☀️ 31 °C
Good old Aussie culture out here. 😂
A famous Aussie crossroads where the truckers stop to eat and rest, home of Australia’s wild boars. Don’t want one of them charging at ya through the bush, kiss your lights goodbye.Les mer
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Having a cold one.
13. mars 2023, Australia ⋅ ☀️ 31 °C
Check out the Boars on the back wall. Hope we don’t come across one!
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Gotta stop at Moonie !
13. mars 2023, Australia ⋅ ☀️ 31 °C
You just can’t go past the wild and hilarious Aussie humour. We are the greatest country in the world to laugh at ourselves. Just crack a dopey one and watch people smile.
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Yelarbon Silo Art
14. mars 2023, Australia ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
Some of the silo art works are just amazing to see, the amount of work that must’ve gone into doing them and the amount of time it must’ve taken, incredible.

We will be seeing a lot more of these during the rest of our trip and will add them to the blogLes mer
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Australia’s Dingo Fence
14. mars 2023, Australia ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C
The longest fence in the world. The original dingo fence ended here at Yelarbon Qld after 8360 klm from the great Australian Bite in Sth West South Australia up to Cloncurry and concluded in Yelarbon.
The shorter version still exists today protecting sheep flocks through SA, NSW, and QLD.Les mer
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Goondiwindi Art
14. mars 2023, Australia ⋅ ☀️ 30 °C
Saw these amazing sculptures on the outskirts of Goondiwindi as we were leaving. Some people definitely have too much time on their hands.
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Morning Tea in Goondiwindi
14. mars 2023, Australia ⋅ ☀️ 30 °C
After a quick stop at Supercheap for some parts (more will be explained in a later post) we dropped into a local cafe in Goondiwindi for a vanilla slice and chocolate malted milkshake. Sue enjoyed her cheesecake and Vanilla milkshake.Les mer
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Moree Disaster
14. mars 2023, Australia ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C
Finally arrived at our overnight stop after a 5 hour stranding, and not even on the side of the road, right in the middle of the Newel highway.
Story goes like this;
Cruising down the highway toward Moree and pulled up at a roadworks red light. Sitting for a while so chose to put into park. Car immediately shut off altogether and went dead. Would not start, would not recognise key fob, doors would not unlock etc etc. then the traffic took off without us. 😂😂😂
We were now a new obstacle for the traffic controllers to detour traffic around. Now comes the exciting part.
In these sort of situations, disconnect battery, wait 1 minute and reconnect, any car should reset computers and away you go. Hahaha, battery in the trunk and tailgate only opens electrically and is still locked. 🤣🤣😆
3 hours later NRMA arrives, car on bed and caravan behind, off to the caravan park. Drops us on site and then the fix commenced.
After rearranging rear drawers through back doors and getting to below the spare tire, got battery terminal off, 1 minute and back on, full reset and all ok.
First thing tomorrow find a new battery. More to come.
🍺🍷🍻time.Les mer
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New Battery Time
15. mars 2023, Australia
Kicked the car into gear this morning and headed off to a local battery supplier to get the battery tested and replaced as I guessed it’s going to be the major cause of our problem yesterday.
Once tested, yep good enough to crank, but not supply continued draw on other systems.
Unfortunately I didn’t heed subtle warnings over the last few months when starting in the mornings it would say “battery voltage low” start engine. Should have been an adequate warning that I didn’t pay attention to. Dumb me !!Les mer
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ReisendeLesson learned. That is why you have those warning devices. At least you know that the warning works.😁😁👌👌
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Royal Hotel, Gilgranda
15. mars 2023, Australia ⋅ ☀️ 31 °C
Such an amazing thing to see. This is a grape vine out back of the Royal Hotel that was planted back in 1890.
Just the one plant has grown and survived to cover the entire outdoor beer garden with cover, and believe it or not, still produces grapes to the day. Incredible.Les mer
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Art Deco in Gilgandra
15. mars 2023, Australia
Art Deco is one of my favourite types of architecture. Gilgandra has quite a few buildings from that era that have been renovated and some in progress. Even the IGA has followed the theme.
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ReisendeThanks for all the pics of your travels. Great to follow.
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Walkabout AUSOur pleasure, shame you weren’t able to join us.
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Coo-ee
15. mars 2023, Australia ⋅ ☀️ 31 °C
Home of the famous 1915 COO-EE March. 25 young men started out from Gilgandra on the Coo-ee March to recruit Young Australians to sign up to defend the mother country back in World War I.
As they marched through the towns they would scream out the coo-ee call for others to join them. By the time they reached Sydney their numbers had swollen to over 260 men.
Similar coo-ee marches were started around the country and another large hit Adelaide the following year.Les mer
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Sue on Safari
16. mars 2023, Australia ⋅ ☀️ 30 °C
Caught this wild animal all alone in a safari bus, amazing capture.
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ReisendeHey Sue, did you have a bag of peanuts to feed the monkey with the camera. 😁😁😁
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ReisendeHe’s a very sneaky monkey.
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Western Plains Zoo
16. mars 2023, Australia ⋅ ☀️ 31 °C
This is a pretty impressive setup out here and although it could do with a bit of a clean and tidy up it is still good to see these animals in an open and free environment.
Great area to park the caravan, unhook and drive your own car around the complex. Golf carts are a bit steep at $70 for 3 hours or $140 all day.
Luckily got to do the safari tour as well as not many people there. Great experience.Les mer
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Tomingley Crossroads Hotel
16. mars 2023, Australia ⋅ ☀️ 34 °C
Another country pub free camp stopover. This is the exact halfway point between Melbourne and Brisbane along the Newell Hwy.
Tiny pub with ice cold beer and great food.
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Cobar, Outback NSW
17. mars 2023, Australia ⋅ ☀️ 33 °C
Definitely on the edge of entering the outback here. How they survived out here in these desolate conditions 150 years ago. All in the name of copper, gold, silver and lead.
Stinking hot today already over 36 degrees and climbing. With this heat have chosen to hook up at a caravan park for the aircon.Les mer
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Left me for a Miner
18. mars 2023, Australia ⋅ ☀️ 37 °C
Oh no, Sue decided she found a new man in the outback. Got all ready to cosy up to him until she placed her hand on his shoulder. Could have fried a steak and eggs on him.
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ReisendeToo hot!!’
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Cobar Mines
18. mars 2023, Australia ⋅ ☀️ 37 °C
Tripped about today checking out some of the mining operations, past and present.
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Emmdale Roadhouse
19. mars 2023, Australia ⋅ ☀️ 38 °C
Definitely in the middle of nowhere, this tiny little roadhouse come pub. Good little stop for lunch and a coldie.
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ReisendeHow much was petrol there?
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Walkabout AUSSurprising only $2.21 diesel
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ReisendePretty much the same as home when we left.
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