Monthly Archives: June 2015

June 29

Kings Canyon

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 Kings canyon resort on June 27 and 28. We walked the Kimgs Canyon Rim walk (7.5k) and the creek walk, wonderful place!                      

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June 27

Uluru Kata Tjuta

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We arrived from Coober Pedy just in time to make sunset.  Wow… what a spectacular way to be introduced to Uluru.  We made it despite the masses of cars with similar plans and the single person manning the Park gate at sunset doing their best to make sure that none of us got there!    […]

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June 25

Broken Hill to Uluru 

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Day 3 was Broken Hill to Coober Pedy, a massive 950km in 10 hours. Remarkably it really did not seem all that bad. The landscape kept changing, from desert of Broken Hill back to costal again at Port Augusta (the western end of the Bight which is pretty much where we are planning on finishing […]

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June 24

And they’re off!

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June 22, 2015, the adventure begins. Our house has been emptied and handed over and exchanged for a 7m trailer.  All the planning seemed to have worked and despite a hectic last weekend at home we hit the road at 7am.       First stop, Dubbo Zoo, and a night of glamping. Heated and plumbed […]

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June 17

Practise…. what have we learnt?

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Our vast experience of camping began 18 months ago with the purchase of our Swan.  It has been an interesting and steep learning curve… a few long weekends up and down the coast, culminatng in 2 weeks in Kangaroo Island has us feeling, perhaps falsely, confident about the next seven months.   What follows are […]

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June 09

The Trailer…

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We have a Jayco Swan Outback. Why did we chose this over the myriad of other options out there?  Funnily enough, there was no real logic behind the choice except this is what we were always going to get!  I suspect that we may have read Alison Lesters’ “Are We There Yet?” too many times and their trailer […]

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