We arrived home in Manjimup today after 11 months away. Sad but happy. Sad that it has all come to an end (for a while anyway) and happy to be back in Manjimup with all the comforts of home. We are already missing the van lifestyle and looking at dates for the next trip. We had a very smooth trip across the nullabor. While camped at Port Lincoln (with the airconditioner on and 44 degress outside), we checked out the long range forecast for the Nullabor and No...

We have been back in Oz now for just over a week. What a welcome home - 38+ temperatures and fires back in Manjimup! We spent a couple of days with Lesley and Russell in Warragul before we hit the road. We travelled through the forrests where the big fires were a few years back and camped just north of Bendigo while we had the vehicle serviced. A great camping spot we shared with a few travellers who seem to have made it their 'home'. Next stop was at Echuca...

Well after 8 weeks of travelling this great country we are looking at the last 5 days hanging around Christchurch but there are still places I want to tell you about that we have seen since our last blog update. LAKE TEKAPO, ALEXANDRA, CROMWELL AND OF COURSE MT COOK When we left Dunedin we headed inland through Middlemarch to Alexandra. We were absolutely delighted to see the clock in the hill. It's a fully operational clock mounted in the hill that overlooks...

After we left Queenstown we travelled down to Lumsden and then on out to Milford Sound. The drive to the Sound was stunning with lakes, snow capped mountains and tunnels through the mountains. It took us nearly 2 hours to get there and we shared the road with tourist buses and lots of campers and cars all heading to the Sound to go on a boat cruise. We boarded our catermaran cruise boat at 1.30pm and spent the next hour and 45 minutes out on the water. There ...

Well this blog entry will be a bit of a diary of where we have been during the past 8 days while on the south island. We have been having so much fun that we haven't had time to stop at libraries along the way to do the blog. I have been able to put a few albums together of the photos and I'm sure that this is of more interest than the ramblings of this traveller. Anyway.... We boarded the Bluebridge ferry out of Wellington on News Year's Eve and even though i...