ETA was 2:30pm on the 17th and we missed it by 25 minutes due to traffic and a quick stop at the bottle shop to get some cold beers. Pulling into 230 Heytesbury Road we all felt a huge sense of excitement but also a sadness that our adventure was over. Meg was absolutely filthy and Fi and the boys and I weren't in a much better state. We had a quick look around at the boxes strewn throughout our house before deciding it was not the day to start unpacking then ...

Given our experience of the Nullabor first time around we were much more prepared and had more sunlight to play with. As the tent now took no more than 20min to put up/down we planned to do some big km's and warned the boys that they were going to be stuck in the car for a couple of days straight. They were really good about it but we suspect it was because they knew that for every hour in the car they got an hour to play games on their Kindles (The only time w...

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...