Hi Everyone, Today we started our journey from Adelaide down to Melbourme. Our guide, Dave, has the reputation of being the most awake person alive at 5.00am in the morning, oh dear! He was accompanied with a co-driver, Kiwi, never did get his real name. What we did not know was that the next two days were going to present us with the best walking / climbing of the trip.. Flinders was good but we were now entering the Grampian National Park and driving through t...

Hi Everyone, Before you ask, the photo has absolutely nothing to do with Adelaide, well not to my knowledge, it okay though, don't you think? Arrival in Adelaide was quite pleasant, it is a very nice City, I don't know why fellow Australians snigger about the place, certainly not you Melbournites (those out in the Burbs anyway). It has a very European flavour to it and a very pleasant climate, more Mediteranian than anything else, the architecture is very Frenc...

Hi Everyone, I know this is late but I've had difficulty getting it on-line, so here we go with an update re Coober Pedy, the Opal Fields of South Australia. it's a place so hot that the locals choose to live underground, well nearly, they have taken to building properties into the hill sides and then using old disused mines as accommodation, just to keep cool. The average temperature inside one of these dwellings is still 25 degrees, so quite reasonable. The ar...

Hi Everyone, I have now made it through the Outback and can say that I have travelled from Darwin to Melbourne, overland. The trip was really great but made better by the fellow travellers I had with me. We had a really good bunch and we all had a great laugh for most of the way. We all met in Darwin which, for anyone who has not been there, is a tropical town in the Northern territories. As with most of these trips it was an early start and we were met by our ...