Parliament House

It was only a short drive from Gundagai to Canberra. You feel like you are going slowly uphill for a long time, this must be why it’s so cold here. The first few nights were around 2°C, we kept the heating on. We are not members of G’day Rewards but decided to join, the senior’s […]

The High Court of Australia

The calendar on the website said that the High Court was sitting today but because of Easter, they take an extra day. They sit two weeks each month. We sat in Court 1, the largest one with the greatest visitor capacity. There was a school group there that the curator spoke to directly, but we […]

Inverloch and the Prom

Itching to go away camping, we thought if we waited until schools went back we would have the places to ourselves. How wrong were we. Inverloch Inverloch is less than two hours from home, this is the closest campground to home we have ever been to. We all had e-bikes that fold in half, which […]

Silo loop

After nearly four months of lockdown, we are finally released. It just happened to coincide with a long weekend – Melbourne Cup was on the Tuesday. Thinking that many families would take advantage of camping on the weekend we set off on Cup day. We only picked up our new caravan the day before lockdown, […]

Rock’n the Simpson

The Big Red Bash is the most remote music festival in the world. It started with some music being played by John Williamson after a desert foot race in 2013. And grew. They now sell about 10,000 tickets and need 500 volunteers to help set it up and run it. It is located on the […]

What Camping Style suits you?

People new to camping might be wondering what are the pros and cons of each type of camping – caravan, rooftop, tent, van. Here are my views: Tent/Swag Pros Can camp anywhere except self-sufficient campgrounds or side of road Cheapest option You don’t have to tow You don’t have to backtrack to go back and […]

How to use WikiCamps

It would be pretty safe to say that a lot more Australians will be camping this year. With our International borders closed, we feel like our wings have been clipped. Many Australians travel outside their own country before experiencing what is on their back doorstep. This year it will all change. While Covid-19 isn’t quite […]

Northern Territory

Most of the states have a little bit of outback but I think the Northern Territory has the lions share. Our interview with the police to “cross” the border (even though we were already 100kms inside the Territory) went well. They didn’t want to see our photos of proof which was disappointing. I’m not even […]

Queensland cont.

Paluma National Park Paluma National Park looks like it was created after people moved in up there. The road through the park is very narrow and winding, which also goes through a town in the middle of the park, I would hate to have to drive this road regularly. We went exploring the Little Cascades, Big Cascades […]

Sunny Queensland

We crossed the border on the Bruce Highway with our permits on the windscreen. Even though there was a big queue it was moving along quite smoothly. The only people they were pulling out of the line were those with Victorian number plates so we weren’t surprised when the police asked us to pull over. […]