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Chris & John's Travel Log: March 2014
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Chris and Johns Travel Log. Thursday, 6 March 2014. As with most of the lakes and large rivers over here, the shoreline is dotted with both permanent and holiday houses, some of which are quite expansive, while others are very ordinary. Our dinner at the local Mexican restaurant was excellent. The name probably comes from the fact that moose often struggle during the winter with 'winter ticks' which infest them in the thousands and often cause the moose to scratch off a lot of their coat. The ticks a...
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Chris & John's Travel Log: January 2015
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Chris and Johns Travel Log. Sunday, 4 January 2015. NEW SOUTH WALES SOUTH COAST. Wonboyn Lake turned out to be a lovely place. When we first arrived at the caravan park, we thought ‘what the? The local satin bower bird had built a bower across the road from the park. We drove out to Nadgee Nature Reserve which is typical coastal scrub with lots of really big banksia trees. This half opened banksia flower turns into the pod below -. Inspiration for May Gibb's big bad Banksia Men. While at Bega we paid a v...
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The Wandering Tops: August 2014
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Just Travelling around Oz. 31 August, 2014. Middleton, Qld (Hilton Hotel) and The Bilby Way. After having the Throttle body on the Tojo replaced ($ $) at Charter Towers we started heading west in the general direction of Boulia passing through Hughenden again and Winton. The Corfield free camp, we finished up with about 10 cmpers this night. At 5 O'Clock the pub (community sporting club) is opened for drinks and a meal. We couldn't pass up on a beer and a $10 meal, "to support the locals". Decision was m...
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The Wandering Tops: March 2014
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Just Travelling around Oz. 23 March, 2014. After picking up the van from Melbourne we spent a week in Albury at the Albury Motor Village to finish sorting through the last of Briony's possessions, then it was time to get out of the hussel and bussel of Albury and shopping centers to find some quite free camps on the mighty Murray River. Bridge Hotel - Jingellic. The free camping area behind the pub, a little tooooo crowded for our liking. Gadds Bend Reserve was a great spot, around 10 acres right on the ...
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The Wandering Tops: July 2015
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Just Travelling around Oz. 18 July, 2015. What a wonderful welcome home - our son standing with all the suit clad chauffeurs with two signs saying Mother and Dad! The flight home was quite rough at times however sitting third row from the back of the plane could have something to do with the ride! 15 July, 2015. After surviving the bus trip we caught a plane from Vancouver to LA then caught taxi to Santa Monica which took forever as it was a warm Sunday and EVERYONE was enjoying the beach. Settled in...
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The Wandering Tops: June 2015
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Just Travelling around Oz. 25 June, 2015. Alberta's badlands - Drumheller. Most of the trip to Calgary the discussion revolved around what we had seen and the passenger who boarded in Kimberley kept us informed via frequent updated phone calls to his wife! Both driver and passenger had never seen anything like this in the area before - how do you think we felt, as never seen this sort of fire power before in Australia! Hels checking out the stallion at Horse shoe Canyon. How cooooool is Hels. Dorothy Cat...
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The Wandering Tops: May 2014
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Just Travelling around Oz. 26 May, 2014. Gold and Sunshine Coast. Burleigh Beach Tourist Park, we swapped gum trees for the concrete jungle. Having sundowners at Burleigh on the hill. Curlew birds in the caravan park, normally hard to find in the bush. Inside the Bribie Island museum. Bribie jetty, just across from the park. No caption required, only check out my new friend Ace the guard dog. Alexandra Head beach looking south towards Mooloolaba. View over Obi Obi valley from Kondalilla NP. Even coordina...
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Chris & John's Travel Log: July 2014
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Chris and Johns Travel Log. Monday, 7 July 2014. ITALY, SWITZERLAND, GERMANY - A ROAD TRIP. 8220;But we have paid for two days and we are three hours early leaving” said John, only to be informed that it was one more euro and that was that. When asked why he hadn’t informed us about the ten minute caper, he said he didn’t have to tell us. Unfortunately this was an attitude that often surfaced in Austria and France. They certainly aren’t service orientated. That's the road hugging the gorge at left. We ha...
