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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NOW: FROM THE COAST AND ALONG THE MIGHTY MURRAY RIVER We left the coast and headed to Cessnock in the Hunter Valley where the temperature was 47 degrees. It was so hot it felt like the ground was burning your feet straight through your thongs. The pool was big, deep and HOT but it was…
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NOW: NSW NORTH COAST – Yuraygir National Park and Point Plomer After spending Christmas with our family and shedding all the things we didn’t need or use last year (all 260kg of nice to have, non-essential things) we’ve hit the road for our second year on the road. Both the car and Tvan are lighter…
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[grve_title title=”We have recently returned from a 16,000km trip towing a brand new Mk5 Tvan Murranji. This is our third Tvan and replaced our 2015 Mk4 Murranji.” heading_tag=”h1″ heading=”h1″ line_type=”line” line_width=”250″ align=”center”][grve_dropcap]For the MK5 we opted for diesel hot water and heating plus opening windows (neither of which we had in our MK4). We also…
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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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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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We are proud to invite you to Outback HQ’s Open Day! 18th November 2017 10am-3pm Come and visit the home of Track Trailer, Bolwell RV & James Baroud Rooftop Tents Make sure you don’t miss out on all the excitement – including a BBQ run by the local CFA, displays from our great suppliers and…
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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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NOW: CARNARVON TO KALBARRI With the wind up, the blowholes at Quobba Point just out of Carnarvon were spraying and drifting high into the air. A few brave young men were fishing from the cliffs but the warning sign recommends anchoring yourself to the cliff, so we were happy to just watch the waves crashing…
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NOW: EXMOUTH AND NINGALOO Now that we we’re on the highway we expected to travel a long way quickly but the sign said 200, yes two hundred, kilometres of road works which we found fairly soon after the sign. More red dirt! But not 200 kilometres of it thank goodness. As we approached Exmouth the…
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