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A slight change of plans …
  • Australia - 2016
Oct06

A slight change of p...

posted by Kathy

We had originally intended to spend a couple of months travelling across southern Australia after the FJ Cruiser Summit before arriving home in late November/early December. However our plans unexpectedly changed when we learned that we needed to be home by the end of the first week of...

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2016 FJ Cruiser National Summit
  • Australia - 2016
Sep27

2016 FJ Cruiser Nati...

posted by Kathy

The 2016 FJ Cruiser National Summit was based at Bow Bridge, which is located between Walpole and Denmark, and we arrived there the day before the event officially started. Quite a few other Summit attendees, some of whom had also travelled from eastern Australia, also arrived early and it...

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Wildflowers for as far as the eye can see …
  • Australia - 2016
Sep22

Wildflowers for as f...

posted by Kathy

We’d seen lots of wildflowers growing along the sides of the roads we’d travelled over the previous week (some of which even looked like snow) and having heard that this year was the best wildflower season in the last 10/20/30 years (and even living memory by some accounts!) we...

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The 2012 PBC route in reverse
  • Australia - 2016
Sep09

The 2012 PBC route i...

posted by Kathy

In September 2012 I took part in the my second Postie Bike Challenge (PBC) and I was one of more than 60 motorcyclists who rode a ex-Australia Post Honda CT110 motorcycle almost 3,400 kilometres from Perth to Broome over a period of nine days. As Ron hadn’t taken part in that PBC we...

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A little bit of Kimberley …
  • Australia - 2016
Aug29

A little bit of Kimb...

posted by Kathy

Our first destination after leaving Broome was the Dampier Peninsula via the Cape Leveque Road. The first part of the Cape Leveque Road is sealed but this is then followed by almost 80 kilometres of unsealed road of highly variable condition. When we travelled it many sections were either...

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Bound for Broome
  • Australia - 2016
Aug22

Bound for Broome

posted by Kathy

Our first stop after leaving Keep River National Park was the quarantine station on the NT/WA border where we had to hand over all of our fresh fruit and vegetables and containers of honey. Fortunately we knew about this well ahead of time (there were lots of signs along the highway from...

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Naturally beautiful …
  • Australia - 2016
Aug16

Naturally beautiful ...

posted by Kathy

While we were in Darwin we made the decision to defer visiting Kakadu National Park until next year when we will combine visiting it with a 4WD trip thought Arnhem Land. With that decision made we then decided to focus on some of the other National Parks in the Northern Territory: Litchfield...

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Into the NT
  • Australia - 2016
Aug07

Into the NT

posted by Kathy

After leaving Adels Grove we travelled along the unsealed Gregory Downs/Camooweal Road on our way to the Northern Territory and to spend the night at the Barkly Homestead Roadhouse. We had originally intended to spend the next night at Elliott but found a good recommendation on WikiCamps for...

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