Latest Adventures

It’s been a while since we have been out and about. After our last big trip to Western Australia we came home and bought a house. After 5 years of renting and with some bad neighbours we decided it was ...

7/08/2014 – It doesn’t seem to matter how long you are away for, when it’s time to go home, you are keen to get there. For us it’s catch up with family and friends. Don’t like the unpacking, packing is ...

6/8/14 – Chris had to change a slow leaking tyre this morning, the same tyre that came off the ute on the Tanami, which seems so long ago now. The tyre has done well really, considering everything it has been ...

4/8/14 – It’s nice to have options and the time to explore them. We have changed our minds about which was to head home several times. The Hot Pools at Blackall won out, we enjoyed them so much the first ...

3/8/14 – We had been to the Riversleigh Fossil site near Lawn Hill on a previous trip in 2012, and to be honest it didn’t mean or do a lot for us. However the Fossil Centre in at Mt Isa ...

2/08/14 – We had booked into do the Hard Times Mine Tour, we decided to go for the package tour 1 which included Riversleigh Fossil Centre and the Isa Experience & The Gallery, cost $59 each. Tickets for the Fossil ...

1/8/14 – Well it was time to leave this amazing place and head south down the Riversleigh Road towards Mt Isa. We stopped in at Adels Grove to top up the fuel tank $2.05l. Just before we hit the bitumen ...

31/7/14 – Pancakes for breaky then paddle up the gorge again. Good to see the gorge at different times of the day, both sides of the gorge were lit up by the morning sun. It was busier in the mornings, ...

30/7/14 – Into the Island Stack walk early before the heat of the day. It’s a 4km return walk. Mostly pretty easy but there is 200m that is a steep climb up steps to the top, but the view is ...

Lawn Hill, Boodjamulla, National Park – T, S, B, OR, M, W, $. Lawn Hill is a favorite and special place for us. Whether you stay here at the National Park or at Adels Grove, you are sure to have ...

28/7/14 – We are back to dewy morning and the days are a bit humid. A big travel day today along mostly dirt road, makes it a long day. We had to call into Borroloola to fill up with fuel, $1.85l. ...

27/7/14 – What a wonderful peaceful night, we had the whole place to ourselves, was wonderful. The road from Roper Bar to Cape Crawford is a wide dirt road with some really great bits, in other areas it was rough, ...