Day 24 We are now back on the original Holland Track. The walking is okay but the corrugations are as hard to negotiate walking as they are driving. The vegetation changes every day. We are now back in the woodlands, with hills and rocky outcrops. We didn’t walk as far in the afternoon. I think […]
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Hiking The Holland Track for Brain Cancer. Pt.4
The hike continues……Day 18 The camp was cold but no rain! We were on the road by 8am and walking well. The day was cool and overcast but no rain all day. The buckshot gravel has dried out and the traffic looks much safer today. Today is also Dad’s birthday. Not much fuss but we did […]
Hiking The Holland Track for Brain Cancer. Pt.3
The hike continues……Day 12 We got a good early start the next morning. Just after our first 7km stint the rain started in earnest and did not let up. Rodger sent the back-up team ahead with a request to get a fire going and some tarps up. What a relief to walk into lunch camp. […]
Hiking The Holland Track for Brain Cancer. Pt.2
The hike begins Tues. Sept 12. 2017. Official Day one. The coffee/wine shop in Broomehill is a must see, if just for the eclectic collection of bric a brac, memorabilia and artefacts. Stayed at the Broomehill caravan park. Very tidy and neat. $30 site fee but the use of washing machine, dryer and bbq free. […]
Hiking The Holland Track for Brain Cancer. Pt.1
600kms is a long way to hike on the Holland Track Why the Holland Track exists Back in the 1890s Victoria was in the grip of serious drought and a banking crisis had brought severe economic depression to the state. The discovery of gold by Arthur Bayley and William Ford, in September 1892, resulted in […]
Worlds End
We recently stayed at a delightful camping area known as Worlds End near Burra in South Australia. A place with a name like that deserves more investigation. Originally this area would have been named World’s End Reserve, then some years ago the government decided that all apostrophes were to be dropped from place names. A […]
Lake Eyre – Kati Thanda
Lake Eyre – Don’t Drive on the Lake Bed. Lake Eyre National Park is now formally known as Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre National Park. Since 2012 the management of the park has been a partnership between the Arabana Aboriginal Corporation and the Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources. We recently travelled the Oodnadatta Track, a […]
Rig Road 2015. Part 3 – Mungerannie to Dalhousie
Today we are finally going to head off on a track neither of us have travelled before – the Rig Road. We had planned to travel this section with another vehicle but they had to cancel at the last minute due to a family emergency. While this is not ideal we are confident that we […]
Rig Road 2015. Part 2. Marree to the Simpson Desert.
In Marree there are a few places that are a ‘must visit’. First is a visit to see Lyle Oldfield for fuel at the Oasis Café. I’m not even sure that the current building is called the Oasis but you won’t miss it. Marree is not that big. There is always a collection of something […]
Rig Road 2015 – Part 1. Hawker to Farina.
Hawker is one of my favourite outback towns and somewhere I could easily imagine living. Because we cross the Victoria/SA border for most trips we leave the fruit and veg shopping until Port Augusta. Now fully stocked we headed northward. As a family we have been wandering around this area for many years. I would always […]