We packed up our little house on wheels, and drove the huge distance (two suburbs away) to Kylie and Stu’s for Maxx’s 1st birthday party. The birthday boy amused everyone before going down for his little nanna nap, then was up and running again! It was a good chance for us to say one last goodbye to everyone (seems like all we’re doing these days is saying goodbye to people!) before we headed

So, we spent a couple of weeks in the lovely (ahem!) Rockingham while Matt did some work, and I had the lovely job of tidying, sorting and generally making the caravan a bit more user-friendly. We got rid of all the stuff we’ve quickly realised we don’t need to cart around with us, re-packed the storage unit, and I gave my car a bit of a runaround for a couple of weeks before putting her back

Ok, so this bit’s going to be a bit of an update since it’s been awhile (ok, a long time!) between blogs. There’s more to come after this one as well, so put your glasses on Norma, you’re in for a read!   From Carnarvon, we headed south again (and yes, it’s getting colder and colder as we do…) to the quaint little town of Port Gregory, where we are currently residing in lot 81! We got here

I think the last blog left us at Worroora Station, at 14 Mile Camp, so let’s go back to there…   The 18th, we spent a very lazy day doing not much apart from a bit of tidying up and doing fun stuff like emptying portaloo’s. Fun times… We ended up with Craig and Dale in our caravan for dinner since the wind was worse than ever (if that’s at all possible!). We had a great night, a few drinks

Tuesday we left Barradale, and headed straight to Coral Bay. Had a bit of lunch, and a wander around before making the trip in to Worroora (pronounced Warra) Station. So, we’ve been here since then, and are camped right on the beach with Craig and Dale (we’re about 10m from the water, so Matt tells me) and it’s windy all the time, but it’s bloody beautiful! Warroora is on the coast (obviously!)

After leaving the pretty cool Point Samson, we drove the mammoth distance to the awesome Karratha (made so by the Morrissey’s! J). We arrived at about 11am, parked the van up outside Kez and Petey’s, then headed into Karratha to have a bit of a look around. After some Maccas to help Matt’s sore head, we drove out to Dampier to check that out. (I’ve just realised that I deleted the photos I took

After deciding to stay two nights at Balla Balla, we ended up staying for only one. Matt got stung by massive amounts of midgies (sandflies) on Sunday night (check out the photos to see how bad they were!), I was in bed thank god and didn’t get stung at all (or weed on, so we’ve found out from our extensive research on how to stop the itch and prevent them biting you). Matt tried some fishing

We made it to Port Hedland from Auski Roadhouse (Munjina for those of you playing at home) yesterday. It’s amazing how much the country changes between the two, going from mountain ranges (that look like something out of the wild west) near Munjina, to big flat open plains and back again all in about 260k’s. Pretty uneventful drive.   When we got to Port Hedland and had a quick bite to eat,

We’ve been to Karijini! : ) After spending the day on Monday in Newman getting organised again, we headed North on Tuesday (once again!) to Karijini National Park. Here’s some fun facts for you about KNP – it’s the second largest national park in WA, and has both of WA’s highest mountains, Mt. Bruce and Mt. Meharry. We didn’t do any mountain climbing this time, but definitely did some other

Ok, here goes with another mammoth blog! My apologies, but we didn’t have the laptop with us all last week, and even if we did I couldn’t have sent anything anyway! We saw about three other groups of cars for the whole time we were out last week, so it was pretty remote stuff. Some beautiful scenery and waterholes (some not so full of water), and we got our fair share of exercise for the week

Craig, Dale and I took ourselves off to the BHP Mt. Whaleback mine tour this morning. Pretty interesting, with all the facts and figures that just seem to huge to be true. It was a bit disappointing not being able to get off the bus more than once, but I guess having a bunch of tourists roaming around your mine site probably isn’t the safest thing. There’s a couple of pics up of the site.  

Went up to Weeli Wolli today. It was about a 60k trip from Newman, but so worth the trouble. We took the corrugated roads out to the river, and ended up spending a couple of hours out there, with only two other groups. The first surprise was that the water flowing over the rocks was warm! Everywhere we’ve been over the last week or so (including the pool at the caravan park) has had absolutely

Hi all,   We’ve made it just past Tom Price today! : )   We headed off mid-morning yesterday from Carnarvon, after a bit of food shopping and a last little look around. We did try and go to the growers market that was supposed to be on in the “town centre”, but nothing around looked anything like a market, so I Woolies’d it up, then we stopped off at a side-of-the-road stall on the way out

Alright, since it’s been a bit busy over the last couple of days for us, I’m adding the last couple of days into one big blog. Try to keep up, I can’t promise I won’t be jumping around all over the place! : )   Tuesday we had a bit more of a look around Quobba Station after saying goodbye to Craig and Dale in the morning. We went and checked out the lighthouse, blowholes, Sydney II Memorial

With a bit of sadness, we left Phill and Jen’s (oh, and Chelsea’s)at Cape Burney at about 8am on this morning. We knew it’d be a long trip to Quobba Station, so we took our time on the road. It’s been a fairly ordinary kind of day, but not raining so that was a plus. We stopped a couple of times during the day, including the Overlander Roadhouse for lunch (PS. the toilets there are very­

Oh my god, I thought it was windy in Safety Bay. We were woken up initially at about 11 last night with the beginnings of some quite heavy rain. That was cool, no worries at all. Then the wind started. At about 3am I actually thought the caravan was going to blow over, or the annexe and awning would rip off the side of the caravan and fly away ala Dorothy’s house style. Holy crap, that was some

Still staying with the lovely Phill and Jen in Cape Burney. We headed out for dinner in Gero last night, had an awesome feed and a great night out, thanks guys! It’s been great just to chill out for a couple of days with these guys, and little Chels, we’re going to be sad to leave in the morning.   Jen cooked us the bestest breakky this morning, which was awesome since we all had a couple of

So, our first night on the road (Tuesday) we spent camped up in a roadside rest area just South of Gulilderton. It was a fairly uneventful evening, almost a full moon, and bloody noisy anytime a car went past. We didn’t do a lot having not tv, so got up early and got on the road. That was perfect timing, it started raining almost as soon as we pulled out of the rest area, and was pretty

So, we know we’ve been a bit slack with the blogs this far, but we finally made it! We finally moved out of our house on Friday morning, then moved all the way across the road… We lounged around on Lyn & Drew’s driveway for a couple of nights, before parking up at Justin and Kat’s last night for one last celebration with an awesome roast and some drinkies. Feeling a bit seedy this morning, we

Monday 20th July 2:36pm   The baby’s here, our tenant’s all ready to move in on 31st, so the time has come (almost) for us to move out! Less than two weeks to go, and we’re nearly ready, I think.   Matt finishes up full time work after tomorrow, then we’re head-on into packing the storage unit up with all the stuff we’re not going to need for the next few years, beds, entertainment unit

Thursday 18th June 1:35pm Well, it's about bloody time we put something up here for everyone to read! So here goes... We've been back from Bali for almost two weeks now, and the house is getting packed up very slowly. Matt's back at work for a few weeks, so the beginning of the trip should be around mid-July (depending on when Vik's bub comes!). Matt's filling in for John (Vikki's husband)