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Its been a few months since we got back and time is flying by. We have been busy setting up our own practice called Iteriad, generally trying to settle into life in the Lakes and have started to keep chickens … Continue reading →

Between Christmas and New Year we gave Hilda a thorough clean inside and out and she looks like new!  We advertised on Gumtree website and got quite  few hits, then a nice couple from Switzerland called Alain and Ireen who … Continue reading →

We spent the last few days of our long trip back at the pretty seaside town of Lorne on the Great Ocean Road. It’s back to Mount Eliza on Sunday and travel tales to tell Karen’s family as we join … Continue reading →

Gary, Kirsty and the lads rejoined us at Kennet River camp site where by all accounts it is one of the best surfing spots along the Great Ocean Road, and home to koalas and echidnas! Gaz and Archer were bursting … Continue reading →

We moved onto Apollo Bay for a couple of days whilst Gary, Kirsty and lads stayed in a farm cottage above Johanna to sample the delights of a snug open fireplace, gathering eggs and milking cows which the lads were … Continue reading →

We joined the dots up on the Great Ocean Road calling in at the Bay of Islands, Bay of Martyrs, the Grotto and of course paying homage to the Twelve Apostles again. All features of the spectacular limestone coastline along … Continue reading →

Well we crossed the final state border into Victoria to rejoin where we started through Mount Gambier and to Port Fairy. We’ve done the full coastal circuit of Australia! I’ll tot up the statistics when we get back to Mount … Continue reading →

We all packed and left Port Elliott in sunshine (typical) and headed east along the Limestone Coast towards Robe. A lunch break at the Big Lobster could not be missed…meaning a giant replica lobster was a landmark for the Big … Continue reading →

Aagh! We had two cold and damp days in Port Elliot and Victor harbour so it was a case of don the warm clothes and get out there. We all headed into Victor Harbour and walked around Granite Island via … Continue reading →

We headed south down South Aus’s prettiest of peninsulas – Fleurieu Peninsula via McClaren Vale home to hundreds of hectares of vineyards (Rosemount wine fame). We knew our mates Gary and Kirsty Hall and the lads were down at Port … Continue reading →

We hit the big city of Adelaide after a five hour drive from Arno Bay. We drove through Port Augusta (southern gateway to the Outback and Coober Pedy opal mine country, skirting the edge of the Flinders Ranges) which was … Continue reading →

We headed back up the eastern side of the Eyre Peninsula through some unremarkable landscape -mainly wheat fields that seem to go on forever. We dropped in at Port Lincoln on the way before finding Arno Bay a small village … Continue reading →

We headed into Coffin Bay’s own National Park to see the vegetated coastal sand dune landscape with its own unique ecosystem and to a place called Point Avoid………and when we got there we knew why it was so called. We … Continue reading →

Another strange name for a place but its not as spooky or a place of illness as you might think. Coffin Bay was named by that chap Lt Matthew Flinders in his ship The Investigator again but not because of … Continue reading →

Our route south along the Flinders Highway towards Coffin bay took us past some strange natural features standing in two distinct groups on a hill surrounded by wheat fields known as Murphy’s Haystacks. These are actually ancient granite inselbergs dating … Continue reading →

Our first stop in SA. A peaceful little bay called Streaky – so called by explorer Matthew Flinders in 1802, who thought the water looked streaky due to the reflection of the light on the water and the seaweed. Not … Continue reading →

We knew it would come round….. the big drive along the Nullarbor Plain – the main route from West Australia to South Australia along one of the loneliest places on earth and one of the windiest places on earth as … Continue reading →

Friends Sarah and Nandor caught up with us at Esperance on the Thursday afternoon. On Friday and we all headed into Cape Le Grand NP to see why everyone was raving about the beaches there. Well the raving was justified … Continue reading →

We headed further east along the south coastal highway of WA towards Esperance on a very windy and wet day so Hilda was getting a bit of a blasting along the way but we made the 500km to Esperance by … Continue reading →

We left rainy Walpole and hot footed it to Albany on the south coast of WA. It was sunny as we arrived at Middleton Beach campsite in Albany so we thought great we can pitch the tent and get set … Continue reading →