Leaving The Cape – part II

CREB track to Farewell Cape York.. …hello East Coast winds! WE ARE HERE After completing the Frenchman’s track with flying colours we continued to head south down the development road. A quick stop at our favourite camp north of Coen on the river for a ‘shower’ and relax away from the corrugations, then onto Musgrave…

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Leaving The Cape

Saying goodbye to The Cape …but the Ausventure’s not over yet! We’d made it all the way to the top of Cape York, but there was still heaps to see and do on our way back down. Plenty more dirt, dust and 4WDing to do, with some great camping along the way. FRENCHMANS TRACK After…

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Our Jeep

Our Jeep Wrangler 2013 4-door auto 3.6 WE ARE HERE Love it or hate it the Jeep is something everyone likes to talk about. Travelling round Oz we spoke to those who hate them, want one, actually have one, or had one and it broke. It certainly helped us stand out from the crowd and…

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20 Years of Tvan

20 years can go by in a blink of an eye. It has been a very satisfying adventure, never easy, but always was worth it. A word from our Director I first came to know Track Trailer in the early 1990s, when I began daydreaming about exploring the outback. Being a Mechanical Engineer I was…

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Keeping Australia Beautiful

Keep Australia Beautiful Transmutation – a Recycling Revolution This Sunday, March 3rd, is Clean Up Australia Day, and a fitting time to tell you all of a special place that made my little hippie heart sing! I genuinely get so excited about the war on waste, as well as alternate natural solutions to those common…

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Micky & Cassie – This Is Us

Catch ya in a while, crocodile! The Ausventure Begins! Hey you guys, We’re finally doing it! We have actually set off on our maiden voyage around this big ole beautiful land we call home. It has been a little while in the baking, but we always knew we’d make it. Swirling around in our minds…

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KING ASH BAY, BOORALOOLA and LIMMEN NP

King Ash Bay fishing camp is located on the McArthur River (more warnings!) and is owned and operated by the McArthur River coal mine with the loading facility at Bing Bong (great name) on the coast. It is quite well organised (rather formal), huge and packed with fisher folk from all around Australia. You need…

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TWO WEEKS INTO OUR 4 MONTH ODESSEY

We headed north from Longreach, towards Muttaburra, the “road” for much of the way is two wheel tracks over dead flat, black soil plain. Thankfully there had not been any rain recently. Back onto bitumen and into Muttaburra. It does not take long to look over Muttaburra and we pushed onto Hughenden. We found the…

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Clean again. InDarwin

4 MONTHS ON THE ROAD IS NOT LONG ENOUGH!

On 13th May 2013 my wife and I left on a 4 month “odyssey” we had started planning to undertake 6 months earlier after she had finally retired from her lifelong “underpaid and overworked love” – teaching mathematics. We have owned Tvans since 2002 and had undertaken many short trips into Northern SA, Western NSW,…

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