We've been driving for two days on the nullabor. The first night was spent at Fraser Range where we were lucky enough to see a beautiful sunset from the top of a hill next to a water tank. We were pretty high up and we could see the tops of trees go on forever. We crossed the border around midday yesterday and spent the night on a cliff with about a 100m shear drop to the ocean. We tried to make a fire with no wood and succeeded. It lasted about 30 minutes. We wo...

I got my lunchbox packed, my shoes tied tight, I hope we don't get in a fight! It's the day! Finally after months of planning we are heading off on our journey across the south coast of Australia. The Troop is all packed up and we are ready to hit our first destination... Bruce Rock. We'll say Hi to Grandma and then tackle our first ever trip across the Nullabor. We have packed plenty of games and tapes (I even sneaked in Christmas Carols), and are ready to spe...

Yesterday we went to Spotlight and picked up some elephant print fabric and brought it home for Mum to sew up some curtains for the Troop. 6 windows strung up on wire top and bottom, does the trick. Alex.

Spent the last few days building up the false floor with 2 rear compartments for roller tubs, and 3 internal compartments with lids, as this is my first attempt at carpentry, Shenae and I reckon we've done pretty well. I mainly used 18mm MDF for the structure and 18mm chipboard for the lids, underneath we bolted down a thin MDF sheet with carpet ontop to reduce our tubs and gear sliding. Shenae's been busy organising all our tubs with food, cooking/living utensil...