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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