Townsville and Cairns were our “civilisation” stops. After 3 weeks of dust and vast empty outbackness, a city change was welcome. Townsville was first on the list and it was nice to catch up with old friends; have a jaunt around town and the hill; eat a lunch that didn’t involve ham and cheese; and…Continue Reading “Townsville”
Do you have a menu?”, I asked. “Were having Crumbed steak, chips ‘n salad tonight”, said the publican. “Excuse me?”, I said. “Crumbed steak, chips ‘n salad”, he said again. “But you will have to wait for the next sitting. We are about to serve the first.” The Prairie Hotel, is the only pub…Continue Reading “Little Hotel on the Prairie”
By Karina. It was a Saturday afternoon when we rolled into Winton. The sun was hot; the earth was cracked; the shadows were long; the water smelled of sulphur and the pub was full by 5pm. We set up on our small patch of grass out the back of the Pelican Fuel stop. We were…Continue Reading “Dinosaur Trail: Winton to Richmond.”
By Neil. The long dusty drive in the desert can only be appreciated if you are there, in it. More so if you can see more than just what is in front of your windscreen. We needed a drone for our trip, of course. Here is the first bit of footage we took, the…Continue Reading “Desert Highway”
The first overnight stop that truly felt like freedom: heading west along the road to Winton. Sundown, an unmarked track after long empty roads, vast monotonous plains and a free camp called Dingo Creek Downs. Big skies, road trains, real trains and finally a sleepy desert town with character and intrigue…….
By Karina. We were heading westward. Into the dust and the wide open spaces. If it weren’t for Jonah and his dinosaur interest we probably would have kept going north, up the coast, but Winton has been on his bucket list for 25 years, apparently, so there we were, heading west. But before the dinosaurs…Continue Reading “Sapphires in the rough.”
It was a bright morning when we were finally ready to roll out of our driveway. It just happened to be June 1st and the first day of winter, which felt a bit ominous, and I wanted to make a whole range of Game of Thrones jokes, but seeing “winter is coming” was already redundant,…Continue Reading “Chapter 1: Sunshine Coast to Capricorn Caves”
Its been about two years of thinking about it, one year of planning, three months of preparations and a manic few weeks of getting it all wrapped up. And now, sof sof (finally), we are off! We literally did not know where we will go first but the general direction was north. Towards Agnes Waters…Continue Reading “And were off!”