Capital Conclusion

The hammer to Hay was longer than projected, a gratifying route of farm landscape, and tyres breaking endless mirages once more. Ultimately Hay is in excess of 850km. We draw some relived breaths before gasping sharply inwards apprehending there is an added 120km to go before we reach our final abode. The long awaited ‘Outback […]

Mr Zany to Bruce and Sheila

Wrapping the green turbo tent, we drop camp and tidily tie it to the roof of the VW, and vamoose Streaky. Bound Southwards in South Australia we skirt Port Augusta stopping very briefly for the 3 Ts: tampons,toothpaste,tea. An in-progress life skill to try to remember what I need to acquire from the supermarket without […]

Distance proves no Border

The second advent door crackers open with an ‘endurance test’. Today the plan is to drive 1,209 km to Streaky Bay. We have decided to demolish the Nullarbor in just one day for this Eastwards trip. Out of the sheep station by 6.00 am, we will be springing forward in daylight once we cross Border […]

Summer blooms and Chrissy beckons

Arrival of advent day 1. November has been stolen away and Decembers door number 1 unseals. No chocolates to unwrap just a proposal to pilot to the Western side of the Nullarbor plain. Fraser sheep station will be our residence for the night. This is an outback oasis that we visited on our East -West […]

Super Roo View and Bush Tucker

Thursday and I have no notion of where we have subsisted and where we are dwelling. This only transpires when relaxation occurs I speculate, a nomadic journey encompassing over 4000km. I presume it is peculiar that having done this business before and now again I contemplate whether we could sail, swim, cycle, or run this. […]

The expanse es La Grande.

Roused by exuberant macaws this sun-up we sponge our perky recovering teary eyes, and resolve to head to ‘twilight bay’. This is a beach voted the best in Australia in 2008. My explorations of Australia thus far have left me astounded at beach beauty ‘beach by beach’, ‘coast to coast’. I am a Cornish lass […]