Headed straight into Adelaide on our last leg of the trip, and after sitting in roadworks in Port Wakefield for half an hour, went straight to my uncle Alan's house to catch up with him and my cousin Pete, who had very fortuitously arrived from Sydney with Julie and family just the day before. It was a wonderful detour - the kids had a terrific time reconnecting, and we had a brief but lovely catch up on current events.The smell of home was too strong to stay in ...

Depending on whether you're a glass half full or half empty kind of person, the Nullabor could either "bore you s***less" as in Australiana speak, or entrance you. We took 3 days to cross the full length with the first stop at Fraser Range Station, about 4 hours north and then east of Esperance. It had been a sheep station, and I'd told the kids about all the sheep, horses and animals they would see, so the disappointment was palpable when we arrived to find all ...

We headed out at a respectable 8.30am with 540km to drive until Coober Pedy. Google suggests this is just over a 5 hour drive, but with lunch and rest stops required, we didn't arrive at our destination until 4pm.I'd expected us to reach desert straight away, but we passed two big lakes (Gairdner and Hart) and fairly lush scrubby vegetation up to Woomera. 6km off the highway, 2 hours north of Port Augusta, Woomera was a pleasant surprise. With connotations of ref...

It was super cold overnight in Tanunda - so much so that we had quite a lot of condensation on the inside of our camper and had a bit of drying off to do before we departed. The kids put this time to good use patting the local ponies and making new friends on the jumping pillow. Trusting our NAVMAN instructions, we took a very scenic route north with lunch and a wine buy up in Clare, passed through old copper mining towns such as Quorn with few people but lots o...