Colours of the night sky, and a large ant nest found when looking for fire wood. Ever changing landscape Road trains are often 50 metres long, with three trailers. Using a UHF radio on channel 40 will allow you to liaise with the drivers should you want to pass. This truckie stopped to check tyres …
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Woomera, Coober Pedy
Woomera Village is the domestic area of the Woomera RAAF Base. it houses the Woomera National aerospace and Missile Park, which features missiles, rockets and aircraft used in trials over the last 60 years. Coober Pedy is an opal mining town 850km north of Alice Springs. The tag-along tour stayed here and we had a …
World’s End, Burra, Bowman Park, South Australia
World’s End campground is a beautiful place to camp, and has an abandoned property nearby. From here we moved on to Burra, which is a really interesting historic town. We weren’t staying here but I spent the day with a couple of Rollers checking out the churches, mine and blacksmith shop. Bowman Park Bowman Park …
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Mildura
I always enjoy visiting the Locks and was lucky enough to be there when Lock 11 was operating PXL_20220811_005025810~2 PXL_20220811_005507516 There are some lovely walks down along the river and also a historical precinct
The first few days…
Rolling Solo is a group for women who travel on their own. I’ve been a member for a few years now and I love it. There is a private platform which all can access, with an online chat forum, lots of helpful info, and a huge group of women who are so encouraging and supportive …
A new abode for a new adventure
You may recall my canopy from my last trip, which I used along with the caravan. Well it’s out with the old… …and in with the new. Well, new to me at least. A few additions, adjustments, new upholstery and pelmet, new quilt (thankyou Danica 🙂 ) and the Palomino was ready to go!
A new adventure 2022
Those of you who followed my blog on my last long trip will realise that I’m not always very good at following through. My blog last time only lasted half of the trip. And this trip is not that different. I had all sorts of good intentions but I’m now 5 weeks in and about …
The Bungles bungled…
The Bungle Bungles, or Purnululu National Park, is a world heritage park in Western Australia. It is in a remote area, with access into the park being a two to three hour trip by 4WD. At this stage of my trip I was travelling with fellow Rollers Leone, Bev and Sue. We camped in the …
Kununurra and beyond
After you cross into Western Australia the first point of interest is Lake Argyle. This man made lake is Australia’s largest fresh water lake, and if full to capacity would hold more than 70 times the volume in Sydney Harbour. Water from Lake Argyle forms part of the Ord River irrigation scheme, providing irrigation for …
Heading through the Northern Territory
Most people who write a travel blog do so regularly, keeping an accurate record of their travels. Which is what I intended to do. but it didn’t happen that way, so now I’m playing catch-up. Maybe this section should be called “Hurried Catch-up Number One’ Here’s a lightning fast photo record of some of my …
This Is How I Roll 