Category Archives: Australia, 2010-11

Saturday, April 22, was quite rainy.  We stayed in the motorhome for the morning, then after lunch went shopping at Chatswood. Yesterday, Sunday April 23, was a nicer day, and though partly cloudy we went to the National Maritime Museum … Continue reading →

We spent today at the zoo.  Originally we had planned to take it easy today, and just stay around the park here; however, it was a very nice day, and the forecast wasn’t so good  for tomorrow and Saturday, so … Continue reading →

We went in to Sydney again this morning, planning to go to the Australian Maritime Museum.  However on the train in we talked about our banking, and decided that we needed to go in to a branch to clear up our … Continue reading →

We bought a week long transit pass today.  It allows us travel on the Sydney rail, bus and ferry system for the next seven days, and only cost $48 apiece.  That is a good deal, as a daily pass costs $20.  … Continue reading →

Yesterday, Sunday, April 17, we left Nambucca heads after we had walked on the beach for one last time in the morning.  We had to cut short our walk, as it began to rain, and so it rained as we drove … Continue reading →

We’ve spent the last few days in Nambucca Heads.  We were here in mid-December, and it’s where we first went body boarding.  There are many great beaches in Australia, but this one is nice as the Nambucca Beach Big 4 Holiday … Continue reading →

We are back in Port Macquarie where we have spent a couple of days trying to get our motorhome ready for sale.  We were first here on November 11 last year, the very first day that we travelled in our … Continue reading →

It is now 10 days and 5000 kilometres since we left Exmouth.  Ten days of driving through not much more than short scrubby brush and desert.  The scenery has not varied much, except for a couple of glimpses of the Southern … Continue reading →

We left in good time yesterday (April 5) morning, knowing that we had a long drive ahead of us. Fuel got progressively more expensive as we got farther east, until at the Border Village it cost $1.991 per litre. Unfortunately we … Continue reading →

We washed the motorhome at Hopetoun this morning at a very new car/truck wash. We got most of the bugs off (there were a lot of dead locusts which we’d run into on our trip up north near Carnarvon.) However, … Continue reading →