Sunday 7 December. Well this is the last chapter of our year long journey around Australia. We now head the short distance back to Melbourne to complete our circuit and sell Sheila before heading home. We left the last stretch of desert driving, an eight hour drive from Cober Pedy to Port Augusta. We had mixed feelings of sadness and joy to be leaving the hot red dusty nothingness. It can be incredibly boring driving for hours on end and sweating in unbearable he...

Friday 28 November. Sheila was full of fuel and we were sitting in the front seats sipping tea and chomping on a hearty breakfast of Oreos. We had hurriedly made tea then jumped back into the van as the rain was lashing down. We were quite excited about the next few days driving. The longest straight section of road in Australia lay ahead of us and many nights camping in the middle of nowhere with no one around for miles added a apprehensiveness to that excitemen...

Sunday 16 November. We left behind the underwater wonderland of Ningaloo Reef and headed the short journey south to a small place called Blowholes. This was marked on our map by someone as a place to see but we have no idea who recommended it. We turned of the main highway and travelled 50km down a small road until we reached a dirt road and the sea. There was a lot of jagged rocks and waves were crashing against them. We took a wander and came across a shelf of ...

Sunday 9th November. After being in an oven for the past two months the sea breeze that we awoke to in Exmouth was of the same blissfulness as that first sip of a cold beer on a warm day. We drove straight to the beach only metres from our residential camp and gazed out across clear still turquoise waters and decided we were not going anywhere for the foreseeable future. We went snorkelling spending most of the day in the water then in the afternoon went to the c...

Monday 27 October.(Happy Birthday Michelle). We rose dark and early from our hostel bed bug ridden slumber in Alice Springs and hit the road at 5.30am. We read in the local paper that the day before a hitchhiker had been found dead on the side of the road just south of Alice with his throat slit and the back of his head caved in. Lovely place they should put that on the holiday brochure. We headed north and after several long hot hours we reached the 1500 million...