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We don’t like caravan parks as they can feel like sardines, but they are a good option sometimes, when you have a large load of washing to do and don’t want to stand around waiting for it at a laundrette. Some better caravan parks in the outback also have other attractions like live music, anContinueContinue reading “Things we learnt on the Winter 2025 trip”

Ten weeks away seems to be our new limit. With our son Daniel asking us to help him move to his new property in Melbourne, the need to get home and clean out Lorikeet beforehand, became more urgent. Also, we had felt for a couple of weeks that we were missing home and our daughterContinueContinue reading “The end of our Winter 2025 trip”

We have been very impressed by the state of the roads in the south west region of outback Queensland. Not sure whether its only because of the recent floods where more than the usual maintenance has been happening, but the fact that they keep a wide enough verge, flush with the road itself, so thatContinueContinue reading “Southern rural Queensland towns have many attractions”

The outback colours have become more intense with the sparsity of the vegetation, although with the rains and floods a few months ago, there is a lot of greenery and wildflowers, and the creeks and waterholes are fuller than normal. The landscape has a beauty that can only be experienced in person, as photos doContinueContinue reading “Big Red and a Big Dinosaur”

Barcaldine, is pronounced Bark-all-din, as was pointed out to us very early in our quick stop there. I can understand this since I’m always correcting people on how to pronounce Windellama (Win-dell-ama) too. You can excuse newcomers, but not people who have been to a place before, or journalists who annoyingly tell people about “Winde-llama”ContinueContinue reading “Outback Queensland – from Barcaldine to Boulia”