Today we are off to Sovereign Hill, which is a recreated town in the style of the late 1880, gold rush time. Very cool. Started of the morning with a visit to the local bakery where they still cook the food using tradditonal ways and in a wood/ coal fir… more »

Today a big drive day across to Ballarat, arriving late evening. more »

Today off to Mount Gambier in the South of South Australia, just inside the border with Victoria. Travelled south down to the Coorong today, stopping at Coorong for some lunch and a run around on the water front park. It was interesting to see the lake… more »

Today we drove across to Victor Harbour to ride on the old Horse Tram. Road over was a bit of a challenge as very windy and not so good with the van on the back, but we made it with no issues. The horse drawn tram was brilliant. It took passengers over… more »

Today we had a big decision to make, go for another drive or go wine tasting. mmmm, tough decision, of course wine tasting wins! Off today to the Mclaren Vale Wine region. First stop is Pennys Lane who actually markets Mr Riggs wines as well as a coupl… more »

Today we are leaving Kangaroo Island but plan to have a look at the Eastern end. We drove down to Penshaw, the town where the ferry comes from the mainland. As it was cool and drissly we decided to have a bit of a drive around the town and then had some… more »

Today we drove to see the Raptor Demonstration, which is birds and birds of Prey. Excellent demo, with great interaction with the audience. All the kids even got to hold a bird on their arms. Then on to Seal Bay to see the seals on the beach. Had a goo… more »

Had a drive around Kingsgate in the morning. This area was the place for the first town in South Australia. Had some interesting stories about the first settlers, but basically it seems they found it too tough here with no water, or good soil (or was it… more »

Leaving Adelaide this morning and heading south on the way to Kangaroo Island. We have decided to leave the van on the mainland and just take the car over.  Plan is to stay in a cabin, and sort of have a holiday / break from the van for a couple of days… more »

Drove up to Adelaide hills, about 1 hour from the centre of the city. Lovely area with a real country feel. Heaps of German influence in the area and therefore good cafes and lovely buildings. Had lunch dinner at a German pub, with real German beer. Of… more »

Spent today Christmas shopping which took all day – what more can I say! more »

We cycled to Adelaide Zoo in the botanic gardens. Saw the panda’s and all the other animals in the Zoo. Kids loved seeing all the animals and the area where we could pat some of the animals as well. Stopped for a fantastic coffee (good to be back in th… more »

Today drive to Adelaide. Arrived fairly early as not far from the Barossa, nothing seems that far after all the mile we travelled from one sight to another when getting at South Australia. Setup the van and drove into the city centre to see the city bui… more »

Today we visited Maggie Beers kitchen for Lunch and a demo cooking. Now a very commercial place but was still a nice place to visit. Yummy Food. The Kids also got to feed a Magpie that they had saved after it had been found injured. Then drove up to ch… more »

Today wine tasting in the Barossa. Started off with a visit to trey to see the LEGO man. Unfortunately it was raining slightly so this was closed today. Maybe tomorrow he would be open. So back to the town for a coffee and then some wine tasting. Decide… more »

Today we drove to Tanunder in the Barossa Valley. On the way we visited a few wineries in the Clare Valley. We visited Knapstien Brewery and winery, Yummy wine and beer in one place! more »

Today we took a drive up to the north part of the Flinders Ranges. First we visited the Toy Museum in Willmington. This was a very strange place, the collection of toys was fantastic, but all very dusty and not well cared for anymore. Kids loved seeing… more »

Another big drive back to a town called Melrose in the Flinders Ranges. Took most of the day to drive there, and two tanks of Diesel! Arrived late to a small but OK park in the small town of Melrose. more »

First off we checked out the old timer mine, and shop. This was a shop underground and the an old mine that we could go and look it. Finally we got to walk through their workshop, also underground and then an underground house that was lived in until t… more »

Another Big day of Driving up through the desert to get to Coober Pedy, famous for Opals and living underground. Drive up was a bit more interesting than others recently as the country side changed from something that looked remotley like was usable, t… more »

Today is H's birthday, so of course stared the day with the normal formalities and opening of presents. Then we decided to go visit the local museum, which was very good. Had heaps of stuff for the kids to get involved in as well and pleanty to see, so… more »

So, today travel to Port Augusta. We thought we would be back in some sort of civisation as there were a few roads on the map today. Well  we were wrong Yes there were towns about every couple of hundred km's but really they were very small towns, often… more »

Ok, another day, another 500 Km of not much.  Travell today through to Ceduna. 1st point of interest was crossing the SA / WA border. Here there was a border villiage welcoming you to WA, and checking you were not carrying any thing dangerous (like Toma… more »

Ok today we continue crossing the Nullabour.  Really there is not much to tell on the crossing as there is not much there to see but flat land, normally dirt and sand and not many trees. In places there are no trees for miles. We stopped for the night a… more »

Decided we would do the super pit tour this morning and then drive south as far as we could in prep for getting across the Nullabour Plain later in the week (and trying to ensure some internet and phone coverage on the way). Packed up and parked the ca… more »

Today the car was getting a check up at the Garage, of course even though I booked it in 2 weeks in advance they had no record of the booking. Lucky in the country way they said no worries and checked it over. All well they said, just a bit of oil neede… more »

Today a drive of approx 400km of really not much to see. Drove north about 400 km and there was 2 corners to take. We did drive through Coolgardie on the way, which was the town that was there before Kalgoorlie was created. At one stage this was the la… more »

Saturday today, good the weekend! Down to the waterfront for the kids (and the big kids) to ride on the model railway. They had a railway similar to the one my Dad is involved in in Picton (NZ), but the track would be about 3-4 times as long. Ticket pr… more »

Up today and drive to Esperance (not much to do in Ravensthorpe!) After we arrived at a nice park on the waterfont we drove around the senic tourist loop of the town and the coast. Lovely views out over the ocean. We also managed a swim at Twilight Bea… more »