Hi everyone : ) We had a big storm the night before we left Walcha (pronounced 'Wolka') and packed up a wet camper trailer tent before heading East to Apsley Falls. It's an incredible waterfall which plummets down huge 65 metre tall cliffs of granite and sandstone. From there we called into the Tia Falls. A 650 metre walk took us to the viewing platform. Water cascades down several teirs of rock, just as steep as the Apsley Falls...a beautiful area. Back ont...

Happy New Year to you all!! We arrived in Lightning Ridge without incident after a one night stop over at a crappy Gilgandra caravan park. The road through to Walgett and on to Lightning Ridge is rather uninspiring. We have driven outback roads in the past and find the miles and miles of flat nothing-ness rather interesting, but this stretch of road is neither true outback or bush terrain, it is flat and straight for kilometres on end but has grassy plains and s...

Hi all, Yes, yes... I know we've been a bit quiet on the blog updates, but since leaving Barmah National Park we have spent a bit of time in Ophir which has absolutely no phone / internet coverage. So, here's what's been going on for the last couple of weeks.... We left Barmah early, aiming for Temora in NSW that night. We travelled along the Murray and crossed into NSW at Corowa, over the bridge on the Murray and out of Victoria. It was a bit of a non-event as...

Hi everyone! Since last entry we have moved from Wedderburn and travelled a short distance to the Echuca area. The morning that we packed up from our camp near the reservoir at Skinner's Flat we drove back to Inglewood and called in at the caravan park to see some people we met there, someone wanted to show off her gold. Some of the people had been prospecting for years and had only found small flakes of gold (one guy has been detecting for nearly ten years and ...

It has been an exciting couple of days here in Wedderburn. On Friday we had beautiful weather again, sunny and 30 degrees. We had a bit of a lazy morning, I waded around the banks of the lake with a fishing rod (without any success), Kathy read a bit, updated the blog and not much else happened. After lunch we decided to go to one of the nearby areas of state forest and give the metal detector a run. We found a nice little hill in scrubby bush that looked as goo...