Support our very own Service & Parts Manager, Stuart Gruchy, as he undertakes 1,500km on a postie bike for a very worthy cause Bridge Builders Ltd is a National, not-for-profit youth organisation, delivering youth services around Australia. As a charity, they don’t receive any government funding for the youth services that they provide and they…
We are proud to invite you to the 5th annual Outback HQ Open Day! Saturday 17th November 2017 10am – 4pm Come and visit the home of Track Trailer, Cub Campers & James Baroud Rooftop Tents Don’t miss this fantastic day out for the whole family – including a free BBQ, a live band and…
NOW: THE WHITSUNDAYS Our memories of Airlie Beach were back packers, all day breakfast and t-shirt shops. They’re all still there but Airlie has grown up – up the hill and all across the available land! Cyclone Debbie had wreaked havoc six months prior to our visit so some businesses and buildings were still being…
NOW: THE TROPICAL NORTH After surviving a deluge of 180 mills of rain in 30 hours we felt we needed a treat. Travelling south from Mission Beach we made an important stop at Cardwell which used to have pie vans parked on the dirt under the trees along the foreshore. Since Cyclone Debbie they’ve had…
NOW: THE WET TROPICS For some travellers it’s the call of The Cape once you are this far north in Queensland but we’ve been to Cape York before and travelled up and back on the famous Telegraph Track. This time we’re heading for a camping RESORT with tropical gardens, a resort style pool, a large…
NOW: ATHERTON TABLELANDS If you’re on the tablelands on the right Saturday you can wander the Yungaburra markets and try some local foods and produce. You can also stroll along the Peterson Creek and watch the platypus swimming in the water even during the daytime! I thought you only saw platypus at night but not…
NOW: UNDARA LAVA TUBES The Gulf Development Road took us from Karumba on the gulf to Georgetown which was a bustling mining town in the 1800s. The Cumberland Chimney is all that remains of the large mining township 20 kilometres west of Georgetown. Built by Cornish miners 200 years ago the chimney still stands tall…
NOW – LAWN HILL NATIONAL PARK TO KARUMBA We needed to wash our clothes and shop for fresh food so Borroloola was a timely stop. We also needed to swap one of our near new tyres with our extra spare on the roof rack. The Savannah Way had ripped the sidewall of the tyre in…
NOW: LIMMEN NATIONAL PARK AND LORELLA SPRINGS After swimming in the hot springs at Mataranka we took the Roper Bar Highway. We have learnt to be careful of ‘so called’ highways but this was a decent road and we’d reached ‘the bar’ by lunch time. This was fishing paradise but you really needed a boat…
NOW: NHULUNBUY IN ARNHEM LAND We had four overnight stops on our way north from Mt Isa. The first at Barkley Homestead then Banka Banka which was once a cattle outstation and now hosts highway travellers camped around the original mud brick station building. Next stop Daly Waters Roadhouse where we had mobile reception for…