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  • Waterfall Way

    We drove the Waterfall Way from Armidale to Ebor. As we headed towards the Great Divide, the brown dry land slowly transformed into lush temperate forest. At an altitude of 1300 metres Ebor…

  • Apsley Falls

    The drive from Point Plomer on the Oxley HWY is not a huge distance but it’s slow when towing a van. You really chew through the fuel as you climb up and over…

  • Point Plomer

    School holidays and Easter and we are at Point Plomer along with everyone north or south of Port Macquarie. Fortunately, we arrived the day before school holidays commenced and picked a site that…

  • Crowdy Bay

    We stayed at Yagon which is in the National Park and is a short drive to the beach. Seal Rocks is a beautiful swimming beach. Fortunately not many people about.  I would imagine…

  • The Hawkesbury

    The Hawkesbury was our next stop and the weather was slowly improving. Having only recently read Kate Grenville’s A Secret River, this whole area took on a significant meaning. Roads wind their way…

  • Blue Mountains

    In late March, we headed to Katoomba, a bustling town in the Blue Mountains. The climate here was a sharp contrast to the warm hot days and nights we’d been experiencing. It rained…

  • South West Coast

    The  unkind weather did not stop us from exploring the south western coast of Western Australia. It was windy,  rainy and on a few days we had sunshine. Felt like being home in…

  • Cape Naturaliste

    Wild and wooly weather at the moment but this coastline is so impressive. The rain and wind didn’t stop us from heading all the way down to Augusta. We had fish ‘n chips…