FLINDERS RANGES

NOW: FLINDERS RANGES After lots of online research and a quick trip to Adelaide we bought a new camera. After over 30 000 photos, a million corrugations and dust in a variety of colours the poor Powershot gave up the ghost. So while I drove out into the hills towards Hawker, David set up the…

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EYRE PENINSULA – COFFIN BAY TO KIMBA

NOW: EYRE PENINSULA – COFFIN BAY TO KIMBA After making our online booking for a campsite at Morgans Landing in Coffin Bay National Park we realised the access was by driving up the beach. A check of the tides showed perfect timing with low tide at 11.30am which couldn’t have been better if we’d planned…

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EYRE PENINSULA – WHYALLA TO PORT LINCOLN

NOW: EYRE PENINSULA – WHYALLA TO PORT LINCOLN It’s difficult to describe this first part of the Eyre Peninsula as it is used for so many conflicting purposes. North of Whyalla at Lowly Point is the only place in the world where Giant Cuttlefish breed. While we stood at the Lowly Point lighthouse which sits…

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YORKE PENINSULA WEST COAST

NOW: YORKE PENINSULA WEST COAST Windy days are good for sightseeing in the car. Our sightseeing took us from Marion Bay to Gym Beach, the Daly Head Surf Reserve, Corny Point Lighthouse and the small fishing village of Corny Point. The lighthouses on the southern Yorke Peninsula were of vital importance as all supplies…

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YORKE PENINSULA EAST COAST

NOW: YORKE PENINSULA EAST COAST We headed north from Adelaide following the coast to Port Wakefield then south along the coast of Yorke Peninsula. We visited Port Clinton, Price, Ardrossan and settled in Port Vincent for a few days. In line with our do the local thing philosophy we learnt that raking for crabs at…

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ONE YEAR DOWN, AT LEAST ONE MORE TO GO!

NOW: ONE YEAR DOWN, AT LEAST ONE MORE TO GO! When our first 5 months just flew by we didn’t think we would get very far. We started off unwilling to drive past anything that caught our interest but soon realised we’d have to miss some things or we’d never make the Kimberley for winter.…

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BUSSELTON TO MARGARET RIVER

NOW: BUSSELTON TO MARGARET RIVER After pulling the trailer plug apart and rechecking the connections we still had unreliable tail lights on the Tvan so we sought the help of an auto electrician. It seemed the electronic bits were dead in the taillight assembly and there was some intermittent fault in the wiring between the…

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CERVANTES TO FREMANTLE

NOW: CERVANTES TO FREMANTLE As we stopped at the Dongara Jetty a cray fishing boat was unloading crates of live crays at the processing plant. So, with a wild wind blowing we headed down Indian Ocean Drive in search of the Lobster Shack to find our own rock lobsters. We’d read about it and seen…

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