Middle East
“Must Love Driving” : Winton And Beyond
Apologies for the “Must Love Dogs” movie title appropriation this week but for the last segment of our travels I don’t think I could find a more apt appellation. On a particularly long, dull and monotonous stretch of highway east of Winton, Lois, taking a spell behind the wheel and getting a...
The Road to Birdsville
Having left Eromanga and prior to reaching Birdsville we had been strongly advised to make a short diversion - a pit stop at the Betoota Hotel. Every Aussie has heard of Slim Dusty’s famous “Pub With No Beer” - Betoota is, in effect, a pub with no town. Betoota is the Betoota Hotel. Our...
Australia – Return To The Outback
There are times on any journey when things don’t go quite as planned right from the get-go. Sadly, such occasions often portend further complications as the trip unfolds - our return to Brisbane was just such an experience. Or is it the “rule of three’s” - the old adage that misfortune usually...
There’s No Place Like Home
Seems like yesterday that we touched down here in Kelowna, and yet, here we are already preparing to blast off back to Australia. In reality we’ve been back almost 7 weeks - longer than we had anticipated but there were a few, er, shall we say, unexpected “curve balls” put in our path. Expecting...
Brisbane, Home, & A New Baby !
Farewelling my brother in Dicky Beach it was an easy 1 hour drive to Brisbane. It’s a place we have always enjoyed visiting and we had ample tasks to occupy our time while we waited a week for our flight back to Canada to spend a month with our kids and friends there. There would be a few sights...
Fantastic Fraser Island !
Popular Hervey Bay is literally just a hop, skip and jump from Woodgate - it’s always been a popular draw, especially for sun-seeking retirees, and remains as busy as ever. This time, for us anyway, it represented the perfect jumping off point for a whale-watching trip to magnificent Fraser...
Rockhampton, Beyond, And More Kind Strangers
Rested up after our stay at delightful Carmila beach, the Bruce highway took us further south and on to wonderful Woodgate beach, just south of Bundaberg.. There were of course a few very worthy pit stops between the two which made for a busy and, in the end, a very enjoyable 10 days or so. With...
South From Townsville
With only a few weeks to travel before a planned (northern ) summer break back in Canada, the weather app has taken over as our “compass” of sorts. Simply put, our aim was to maximize the hot weather at a time when both the season and direction we were headed would be gradually putting more cooler...
South From Cooktown
Comfortably ensconced in Cooktown, the recent drama on the Cape York track behind us, it was time for a reset of sorts. It was now July, we had a month before flying back to Canada in August and the beautiful Queensland coast lay ahead of us. Our unforced early exit from Cape York had now created...
Return From The Cape – The Kindness of Strangers
Regular readers will likely recall our recent travels on The Gibb River Road and the Oodnadatta Track. Both are actually on the way to somewhere else - there is, then, much more beyond the final destinations on those two tracks. Not so the Cape York track. Once you’ve made it to...
