How to experience the fun of an outback road trip in just 3 days Why should the grey nomads, gap-year’ers and young families doing the big lap of Australia have all the fun? If you can’t take 3 months off to hit the road – Try taking 3 days – You’d be amazed what you […]
What a Gem! The Fun of Fossicking
“All the buckets had been taken except for one” John recounted. “‘Lucky Last’ I called it” and his eyes crinkled up and his cheeks reddened as he chuckled to himself. Having paid the princely sum of $8 for a bucket of wash, (many places here in the gemfields of central outback Queensland sell pre-dug wash […]
Australia Road Trip Stamps by Australia Post
Australia Road Trip Stamps Have you seen these fun Australia Post Road Trip stamps? Released on the 18th September 2012, the collector’s first day of issue is postmarked ‘Wandering, WA 6308′. Australia Post says on their website that Australians and road trips go hand-in-hand – partly as a rite of passage, but partly out of […]
Monsters of the Outback… Road Trains
Have you driven Australia’s remote outback roads? Long and seemingly endless, they’re bordered by an expanse of bush vegetation that imperceptibly changes until there’s a sudden realisation you’re driving through a different vegetation zone. (More endless outback road images can be had in my Barkly Tablelands post 😉 ) Some might call the landscape monotonous, but sitting back at the […]