After leaving Mount Gambier we headed to Millicent and booked into the Showgrounds for two nights where we met Sue, the very friendly and helpful caretaker. Later in the day we took the car around to Toyota as arranged and we were dropped back to our caravan, expecting the car to be a couple of hours. Shortly after we received a call, Ian wanted to keep the car overnight to dry it out. There was so much water down inside and around some of the electrics which was...

Here we are now in Mount Gambier, South Australia, with a lot of kilometres, visits with friends and family and mishaps along the way. After we left Lismore we headed to both Glenn Innes then Bendimeer, free camps that we have stayed at before. Then on to Coolah behind the golf club for a couple of nights and where Chris got in a game of golf. We caught up with friends Chris and Wendy and had a lovely afternoon/evening with them, catching up on each other’s ne...

Time is certainly flying by! With Christmas and the school holidays well and truely behind us, it’s time to recap on what we’ve been up to since my last blog entry. When we left Dorothy’s house at Palm Beach we headed to Jo’s for about 10 days. As our van was already in storage and it would be in again for our Housesit, Jo suggested we leave it where it was and stay with them for a while. As usual we had fun with the kids and helped around the house wit...

On our last day in Cairns, we were able to meet up with our eldest grandchildren Josh and Ellie. We met them at the waterpark in Cairns and had a good few hours with them. They were obviously having a great time with their other grandparents and were full of what they had been up to. It was great to catch up with both them and Ray and Viv, none of whom we see often enough. After the kids had tired themselves out in the pool and we had caught up with all Ray and V...

With our Cape York trip now behind us but not forgotten, we head to the Atherton Tablelands, inland from Cairns. We spend a few days at the small caravan park at Milla Milla and begin to explore the area. We are still having mixed weather with rain and being of a higher altitude it’s cooler overnight than we had expected. We first went to the visitor centre at Malanda to see what was around the area. We were very impressed with this centre as not only were the...