So after leaving Port Augusta on Saturday 5th December we started our journey into the outback with our first port of call being the opal mining town of Coober Pedy. After a 5 hour drive we arrived in the town where to give you an idea of what it looks like they filmed ‘Mad Max’ and ‘Pitch Black’. There aren’t many trees or plants, most of the landscape is filled with the remnants of mining piles of small stones which have been finely search for any of ...

The sun was shinning for the beginning of our 20th month on the road; we left the car at the campsite and took the short bus ride into the city. We had a look around the CBD first, the decorations, the shops and found some where to have lunch. We went into the botanical gardens early afternoon and made our way through there to the Australian wine centre taking in the exhibition and then had some tasting with complimentary bread and oils. We walked back though t...

Our road trip started with a trip to South Australia we left Melbourne before 8 am topping the car up and heading over the west gate bridge for the last time both deciding that we’ll be back at some point in the future to Melbourne. With the garage out of up and go we had a break for breakfast just outside the ring road before continuing onwards. We passed salt lakes and small towns with the weather warming and eventually came to a town called Keith stopping fo...

A quite first week of our final few days left in Melbourne, we made it to the movies Friday evening to catch the MJ flick – ‘This is it’ the concerts look like they would have been show stopping!!! Wilsons Prom On the 5th & 6th Wolfie went camping with Paul to Wilsons Prom a little over 2 hours south east off Melbourne. We went after a night shift so Wolfie slept most off the way (Paul hadn’t been working), we arrived early afternoon to Tidal River...

Melbourne October 2009 As we are leaving Melbourne next month the blog and photo album are going to be fairly light reading and viewing for October as were trying to save a few dollars for the homeward bound trip. Anyways we did get up to a little in what was our 20th month away from home. We’ve started packing up the room and discarding things that were not taking, getting bags ready for the Op shops (charity) and looking at what we want to send home by boa...