Alice Springs/Uluru. Wednesday 11 September - Saturday 14 September The UNESCO World Heritage site of Ayers Rock - known also by its Aboriginal name of Uluru - is one of the world's most mysterious religious sites, eclipsing even Stonehenge and far more ancient. The massive sandstone monolith rears above the surrounding Australian outback scrublands, extending even further below ground. A sacred place for the region's indigenous Aboriginal tribe since time imm...

Mt Gambier/Adelaide Weekend February 2013 Weather in Mt Gambier - 28 Weather in Adelaide - 32 Before we headed over to Adelaide this weekend we diverted to Mt Gambier as Craig's sister has just moved there with her job and we thought it would be a good opportunity to see where she lives and works. We left Bendigo around 2.45pm on Thursday and arrived in Mt Gambier at around 7pm without any mishaps. We booked into the motel and after depositing our ...

Sunday 9th September 2012, 28 degrees, raining, cloudy. I'm flying to Cairns today to meet with Craig who has already been there for 2 weeks helping Brother (Brett) fix up his car. I'm flying Tiger so have to be at the airport about 2 hours before take off so I got up at about 4.10am 'cause l wanted to do a work out, and needed to be at Craig's Dad's place at 5.50 to be at the airport at 6.20. It's a pretty grey morning however after takeoff & climbing t...

Port Fairy July 6 - 8 2012 Port Fairy is a charming fishing village at the end of the Great Ocean Road. Wide streets are lined by nineteenth century cottages, great Norfolk Pines, old stone churches, boarding houses and inns. Much of the 1800's architecture remains intact and more than 50 buildings are classified by the National Trust. They have been advertising a winter weekend escape over the next two weekends so l decided we should drive down and have a...

Queens Birthday Weekend - Sydney & Canberra - June 7-11 2012 We're off to Sydney and Canberra for the long weekend….Yaaaay!! We left home at 4.30pm on Thursday and drove to Wangaratta where we stopped at 7.30pm for tea at Macca's, then continued onto Gundagai, arriving around 9.30pm. I had booked a hotel in advance so it was just a matter of collecting the key and finding the room. The room was really small and very cold but once we cranked up the hea...