With the gold mining town left behind the feeling was that this was the start of our trip home. Having covered over 16,000kms so far the final 17 days were going to be a bit of a rush as we had spent so much time in Queensland. The weather wasn't really co-operating in temperature but it was still sunny so the plan was to head directly south then east and follow the Great Ocean Road from Anglesea in Victoria and up into South Australia. The views were spectacu...

The night was absolutely freezing so we all awoke early and got to task to get up and get sorted to break camp. The morning routine of Weetbix and honey with milk was clearly a firm favourite so we got that organised and chucked on the primus for our coffee and then disaster…..it didn't work!!!! This was a problem as a stove is pretty important and there wasn't enough Weetbix and milk to last us until December if we couldn't cook anything hot……. We head...

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...