Today we arrived back in Sydney with our rig. Our big trip around Australia has come to an end - we have seen incredible parts of Australia - Flinders Ranges, Uluru, West MacDonnell Ranges, Kakadu, Litchfield, great waterparks in Darwin, El Questro along the Gibb River Road, Broome, Cape Leveque, Karijini NP in WA, Dolphins in Monkey Mia, beautiful Perth, Margaret River and the great south west of WA including Albany and Esperance, the fantastic Nullarbor and ...

Renee & Eamon enjoyed a last hour of play at the trampoline while Mum & Dad packed up and we departed Ebden, near Wodonga around 10am, and headed up the Hume Highway towards Sydney. Our first stop was Holbrook, where there's a nice bakery and also the submarine in the park to climb over. Our 2nd stop was a quick one at Gundagai and we made it into Goulburn around 3.30pm, so nice and early. We could have made it home, but thought we'd enjoy 1 more nig...

After our usual 10am departure, we ventured into the town of Echuca for a look around. It's a great town, very well preserved from the mid 1850's. It's on the Murray River, and there are lots of restored paddle steamers about taking people on cruises like the one we did in Mildura a few days ago. The old main street has many of the original buildings and it was nice to see a couple of Drysdale horses pulling a carriage. We enjoyed a wander up and down the t...

We departed sunny Mildura this morning about 10am, and immediately had to backtrack to return our amenities key - D'oh! The benefit was that Renee & Mum were able to go to the local Cafe to get some morning tea, so not all that bad. A bit of a long drive today, as we head to Echuca - by the time each traveller needs a toilet stop, sometimes it takes ages to make any headway. The first part of the drive we were in NSW, and the last part in Victoria, as th...

Heaps of variety in our day today. Renee & Eamon kicked off with a stint at the water park and pool - although the weather this morning wasn't too hot, the park facilities are too good to miss! Almost everyone here is part of a family, most families have a boat, and every child has a scooter or bike so it's very, very busy compared to what we've been used to, but the children absolutely are having a ball. We got out of the park at checkout at 10am, but...