We pick up the trail of the Great Ocean Road just west of Torquay. From our campground in the north of Melbourne it is still a bit of a drive before we are on the G.O.R. (Melbourne is pretty sprawled…
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As we approach from the hills to the south of the town, a flat top mount of mining debris signals that we have arrived. Broken Hill is clearly a prosperous mining town. After camping for days with basic facilities and no…
Being on the Murray river, some say Mildura isn’t the real outback yet. If you tell people at home that you’re going to the outback some will tell you, ‘there is nothing there’, with wide open eyes of angst and…
Looking at the ocean for one last time on Cape Bridgewater we turn around and head inland. The Great Ocean Road is beautiful but very crowded. We’re dying to get to the outback. We turn onto the Henty Highway. The…
Our first nights in Tasmania we stayed with a friend at beautiful Hawley Beach. Yellow-tailed black cockatoos predicted rain, said local folklore… But rain in one place in Tasmania means sun in another. Our first destination is Cradle Mountain, a…