On leaving Texas, which is a border town, we drove into New South Wales. Burren Junction and Pilliga Bore Baths are another two of our favourite swimming pools, so we spent a relaxing week at both these baths. After having three days of dust storms and strong winds, driving to Burren Junction, we had the rest of our first day at Burren Junction inside DABUS, getting cabin fever. The following morning we woke to sunshine and warm weather, but bloody flies. We had ...

One of the iconic landscapes of inland Australia, Pilliga Forest (or sometimes called the Pilliga Scrub) is made up of Pilliga Nature Reserve, Timmallallie National Park, Pilliga West, and East State Conservation Areas. Pilliga is a vast forest that spans more than half a million hectares and features 2,000km of public access trails. A couple of years ago, we visited the Pilliga Bore Baths and thought we had 'done' the Pilliga. It was only after seeing Cuppa ...

Before leaving on this trip, we knew we were going to travel along 'The Snowy Valleys Way' but we are winging it from here. Our destination from Gundagai is to get to hopefully warmer weather and to the Artesian Bore Baths. On leaving Gundagai, we drove a hop, skip and jump along the Hume Highway, before diverting off at Coolac. Driving on main highways is not what we intend to do, if we can avoid it. The countryside has changed around us; we are now travellin...

On saying our goodbyes to the Winton Wanderers, we set off to Beechworth where a visit to Beechworth Honey was in order. On sampling only a few honeys, we both settled on the Ironbark Honey. We had travelled with drizzling rain since Winton and stopped down at Lake Sambell and enjoyed lunch inside DABUS. After lunch we headed to the Information Centre to obtain information on 'The Snowy Valleys Way". We pull up out the front of the Info Centre and we hear someon...