Burra is a historic town where there is an abundance of perfectly preserved buildings dating back to the 1850's. This town was the largest inland town in Australia until the 1860's when gold was discovered in Ballarat and Bendigo. It was also Australia's biggest copper mine and at one stage supplied 5% of the worlds total copper. 1800 people lived in the dugouts, built into the side of the creek at the peak of the copper mining boom in the 1850's. The copper ...

We had decided to head north back into the Flinders Ranges for a few days as the weather was a bit cool in the south. We had originally planned to track the coast back to Melbourne but a cold front has moved in and the forecast is for showers and cool weather further south. Here in Quorn we are back into the mid 30's, so our plan now is to head to Burra and the Barossa. Quorn is a quite little town, with the main attraction being the Pichi Richi Railway but unfo...

Coffin Bay turned out to be a bit of a reunion. Ian and Leanne who had started the trip with us some 4 months ago decided to fly in from Melbourne and spend a few days catching up with us all. We also caught up with Gerald and Sonya who have been on a similar schedule to us since Home Valley Station about 10 weeks ago. A great catchup. Us boys had decided to go fishing for the day on a charter boat. Coffin Bay is renowned for oysters, whiting and snapper so we s...

We headed to Streaky Bay for a few nights and got a site right on the beach. We could step outside the van and take 1 step and we are on the beach. It is amazing,the water is crystal clear and this place is very relaxing. We decided to explore some of the sights with Lynette and Warren. The scenic drive took in the blowholes and whistling rocks, sections of the Great Australian Bight and Murphy's Haystacks. The highlight was the Sea Lion colony. This is the larg...

We set off from Kalgoorlie and commenced the trek eastwards across the Nullabor. This crossing is about 1200klms of no water and expensive fuel ($2.11 per litre). The nullabor itself is only actually about 60 klms wide at this point, but the term Nullabor is used for the road that stretches between Norseman and Ceduna. The main challenge on this road is to dodge the stumpy tail lizards. These little fat lizards love the warm bitumen and are everywhere. I also sp...