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Great Balls of Fire

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!It is with great sadnesss that I have to announce that our trip has come to a very premature and firey end.
The whole incident is still a bit too raw for me to write up the full story but in [...]

The last of Queensland

Day 35 – Saturday
On the road again, this time we stopped at Julia Creek. We arrived pretty early but by the
time we’d set up camp and walked into the town the shops had shut for the weekend. The
information centre wasn’t open either. So we took the boys to the playground and then just
relaxed. We’d read [...]

Into the outback

Day 31 – Tuesday
We headed towards Townsville today. Setup camp at Alligator Creek Campgound and then drove
into Townsville to sort out the alternator. Luckily the auto electircian agreed to have a
look at it in between his other jobs so we wouldn’t have to come back another day. We walked
around some shops and took the boys [...]