The rain continued overnight. Whilst our tent is canvas and waterproof to a point, the rain sounds about ten times worse than it really is when it smashes down onto the roof of our little mobile fold up house. When we woke up the weather was fine enough to see some sun but the day was punctured by intermittent showers which was a tad annoying but nothing too serious. Fi got the books out for the boys and started their first day of schoolwork. To their credit ...

The rain didn't relent, so the consensus as predicted, was to stop somewhere that had a hard roof and a warm shower. Penong was the next place on the map and fortuitously it was marked out as the best place around. When I mean around, I mean in a 300km radius. This trip has been a great reminder to us, and an introduction to the boys, about just how huge Australia really is. We parked up with enough time to do some washing, get dry, and sort our pack and supp...

The weather continues to follow us from England, and it rained most of the day leaving our goal of Eucla about 50km short, as we had to slow down a lot. This was despite the 1hr 40 minutes of straight road, the longest straight stretch in Australia, as we hit the Nullabor proper. Scenery was stunning, although getting out and taking a photo would have meant that the nob in the caravan we just passed would have needed to be passed again so we decided that was so...

The beast of a ute we have is towing the trailer as if nothing is attached. I have to keep looking in the mirror to remind myself it's there then remember I should be looking ahead for animals jumping out in front of me so I can announce to the boys we've seen a living creature just before I plough through it and add it to our on-going road kill tally. The drive was ok and we managed to add a few miles despite leaving so late from Karalee Dam. Fraser Range Sta...

Perth to Karalee Dam We're off!!! After a frantic two weeks in Perth trying to gather all our camping stuff, getting over jet lag and unsuccessfully trying to stay off the booze we managed to get it all together and set off on our big adventure. Notwithstanding the fact that Fi and I are about as green as an apple when it comes to big camping trips, we managed to fill our new ute and camper trailer with enough camping tat to keep the 9th battalion supplied f...