We bid another reluctant farewell to our beautiful camping spot in Mildura and headed North East to Mungo National Park.Although this isn't the most scenic of Australia's National Parks, it is definitely one of the most important.It used to be an old pastoral station and was turned in to a world heritage site after the discovery of a 40,000 year old human skeleton, the oldest in the world, amongst other important finds.It is at least 600kms from the coast but s...

After reluctantly leaving Streaky Bay, we headed straight to Sheringa beach where we set up for the night , however a 43 degree day combined with 43,000 flies got us up early in the morning to get the hell out of there.We did manage to get an abalone from a professional diver and it was the size of Ruby's head and delicious!We headed south to Coffin Bay National Park for a few nights and shared our camp site with a huge number of very thirsty bees.The next few ...

25 Febraury 2009 (Streaky Bay) We've made it to South Australia and the grey nomads are getting thicker by the kilometer!We hit the Nullabor in early February amid much excitement, thinking there was a quite a bit to see along the way….there's not.We re-named it Nullaboring after being stupefied by boredom - we did make it to the Cocklebiddy Cave which is one of the biggest underground cave and lake systems in the world - although all we saw was a gaping black...

How much can change in a couple of weeks! We headed out to Alexander Bay from Esperance on Australia Day and it was 45 degrees in the shade - absolutely melting hot. Nath had to use welding gloves just to get the boat off and it didn't take much convincing on my behalf to go for lunch at the air conditioned Condinup Pub. We spent the afternoon celebrating Australia Day with Gerard and Nicole and a couple of their friends, there was much silliness and singing a...

23 January 2009 So the journey continues…..we left Bremer Bay last Tuesday and headed in to the Fitzgerald River National Park.This is a beautiful place and a great way to get through to Hopetoun and Esperance avoiding the highway.We stopped at West Mt Barren and thought it looked like and easy enough climb, so we threw Ruby in her special backpack and set off with abut 500 mls of water and no idea.About half an hour in to the climb, when we hit the sheer st...